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Bitcoin has seen quite the turn of events over the weekend; the price of the leading cryptocurrency has whipsawed between $9,700 and $10,500, failing to establish a short-term trend due to an endless tug of war between buyers and sellers.While many analysts and investors have attributed this indecisive price action
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Blockchain startup Conflux has hired Eden Dhaliwal, the former head of crypto at Outlier Ventures, as a managing director to lead its expansion in North America. The Beijing-based firm is set to open an office in Toronto within two weeks. It is assembling a ten-person team to conduct research and seek
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A former Uber staffer has joined Binance to help the crypto exchange expand into new markets.Matt Shroder was announced as Binance's "VP of Global Expansion Operations" on Thursday. He was previously Uber's "Global Head of Product Operations."Shroder's new role will include helping the exchange scale its operations and services, especially
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An executive formerly working on Apple's payments products has joined Banco Santander.Trish Burgess joins the Spain-based multinational as the new global head of Peer-to-Peer Payments and will direct its expansion of digital payments services globally, according to an announcement Thursday.Burgess worked at Apple for 4.5 years, her LinkedIn profile indicates,
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In two tweets on Sunday, Donald Trump touted strong poll numbers in Iowa. He currently leads Democrats there for the general election vote. Iowa is an important bellwether state not only because of its headline-making caucuses but because it usually picks winners in November. President Trump will hold a Monday rally in
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2020 could be the year that crypto companies step forward and take the plunge into going public. As the biggest players in the industry cautiously watch for opportunities to gain regulatory approval, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse used the prestigious Davos World Economic Forum summit to announce that the firm
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Lightnet, the company behind the Velo Protocol, recently raised $31.2 million in a Series A round.The funding was led by major financial and business groups including UOB Venture Management, Seven Bank, Uni-President Asset Holdings, HashKey Capital, Hopeshine Ventures, Signum Capital, Du Capital and Hanwha Investment and Securities, according to a
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After five years at the helm, monero's lead maintainer says he is stepping down.Riccardo Spagni, better known by the alias "Fluffypony," will relinquish his day-to-day leadership role in the privacy coin project. Longtime contributor "Snipa" will assume the responsibilities of lead maintainer, according to a post by the monero core
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Privacy-focused altcoin Monero (XMR) will see arguably its best-known advocate step down as the project’s lead maintainer in an upcoming reshuffle. In a blog post on Dec. 16, representatives confirmed that Riccardo Spagni, known as fluffypony in cryptocurrency circles, will in the future serve as a backup maintainer. His replacement
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The last few years have seen national governments and central banks grappling with how to regulate the crypto-sphere. The US is no exception, but the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is one federal agency that is more supportive of the industry’s growth. This bullish view was reinforced by CFTC Chairman
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