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A Look at the Fed’s Recent Custodia Bank Denial and the Central Bank’s Push Back Against Narrow Banking – Economics Bitcoin News

Over the past century, the number of American banks has significantly decreased, dropping from 30,000 banks in 1921 to 4,997 U.S. banks in 2021, according to data from the Federal Reserve. Recently, the U.S. central bank denied Custodia Bank of Wyoming, a financial institution that holds $1.08 for every dollar

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DOJ seeks to narrow Sam Bankman-Fried’s bail terms, use only flip phones

The United States Department of Justice has proposed new bail conditions for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), a court filing made late March 3 shows. According to the proposal submitted to District Judge Lewis Kaplan of the Southern District of New York, Bankman-Fried should be prohibited from using smartphones, tablets,

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Bitcoin Miners’ Profitability May Narrow as Mining Difficulty Hits Second-Biggest Increase This Year

The hashprice, a metric coined by mining services firm Luxor Technologies that measures revenue per terahash of computing power, has dropped dramatically in the last month and particularly in the past few hours, following the difficulty adjustment. In the month of August, revenue in U.S. dollars per terahash dropped by

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