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California-based online payments company Bolt is pulling out of an agreement to buy crypto provider Wyre. The news of the scrapped deal, which was agreed to earlier this year, comes amid plunging valuations in the crypto and fintech sectors. Bolt Gives Up Plan for $1.5 Billion Wyre Acquisition Bolt Financial, a U.S.
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Founded in 2018, Bloccelerate is led by general partners Kate Mitselmakher and Sam Yilmaz. Past investments have included collaborative lending platform MakerDAO, the Avalanche blockchain and blockchain security firm Quantstamp, according to the firm’s website. Source
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The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, alleges that the registration was set to expire on July 26, 2023, but in August, GoDaddy falsely announced it had expired on July 26, 2022. According to the filing, GoDaddy had said the domain name would be
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The average daily burn recently declined to a record low of 1,206 ETH per day. That's barely 9% of the record daily burn of 13,269 ETH registered in January. Meanwhile, 13.6 million ETH, amounting to 12% of the circulating supply of 120 million ETH, is locked in the Beacon chain,
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The bitcoin mining company Cleanspark revealed on Wednesday that the company has signed a purchase agreement for 10,000 new Bitmain Antminer S19j Pro mining rigs for $28 million. Cleanspark expects the machines to be delivered to the company’s facilities by the end of October or early November 2022. Cleanspark Inks
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The round, led by alternative investment firm Marshall Wace, comes as the crypto market faces what some observers are calling a crypto winter. The total cryptocurrency market cap has slumped to less than $1 trillion from about $3 trillion in November and bitcoin, the largest cryptocurrency, has dropped 59% this
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21.co, the new parent firm of exchange-traded products (ETP) provider 21Shares, has become “Switzerland's largest crypto unicorn,“ the firm announced on Tuesday.It raised $25 million in a funding round led by London-based hedge fund Marshall Wace. The new funding brings the firm's valuation to $2 billion.21.co is designed to unite
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Neill joins from Mastercard, where he was chief risk officer for the company's new payments platforms division, and head of risk for product and engineering, responsible for covering new payments platforms, digital banking and central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Source
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Following the controversy surrounding Kyle Roche, the attorney and founding partner of the litigation firm Roche Freedman LLP, the two crypto exchange firms Bittrex and Poloniex want the law firm removed from the class-action lawsuit against them. Similar to the attorney representing Tether, the lawyers representing Bittrex and Poloniex argue
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