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A federal judge will hear Sam Bankman-Fried's defense argument against a newly released batch of evidence provided by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Aug. 25. According to Bankman-Fried's attorneys, an additional 4 million pages of discovery were released less than six weeks before his trial, scheduled for October
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A newly discovered vulnerability in the Libbitcoin Explorer 3.x library has allowed over $900,000 to be stolen from Bitcoin users, according to a report from blockchain security firm SlowMist. The vulnerability can also affect users of Ethereum, Ripple, Dogecoin, Solana, Litecoin, Bitcoin Cash and Zcash who use Libbitcoin to generate accounts.SlowMist
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On March 31, 2021, Tether claimed it had more than $35.5 billion in U.S. dollar equivalents at these institutions, according to the documents. They were shared with CoinDesk by the New York Attorney General’s office (NYAG) in response to a state Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) request filed in June
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The platform currently hosts 40% of the largest publicly traded bitcoin miners and is onboarding more every week, said Hess. It is also working on a sustainability evaluation framework for miners' operations. There is a "growing demand for green BTC among LPs, who are even willing to pay a premium
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The SEC chair previously indicated that all cryptocurrencies apart from BTC are securities. In a recently unearthed video from a 2018 crypto-themed event hosted by Bloomberg and Fidelity, Gary Gensler, the current chairman of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), made statements that contradict his current position on digital
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A newly surfaced video featuring Gary Gensler from 2018 has made the rounds on social media, showing the now-chair of the United States securities regulator agastating that multiple cryptocurrencies are “not securities.”On June 12 multiple Twitter accounts shared the video which is understood to come from a 2018 event hosted by Bloomberg
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A proposal by the United States securities regulator to tighten rules around crypto custody has been met with opposition from at least two proponents of the industry, according to recently filed letters. On May 8 — the deadline for comments on the proposal — crypto industry advocacy body Blockchain Association
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Linus was living in Santa Teresa, a remote beach town on Costa Rica's Nicoya Peninsula that has one ATM machine with a 10pm curfew. It drove Linus nuts and forced him to research alternative payment methods. He stumbled upon Bitcoin, befriended the well-respected “Bitcoin sorcerer” Ruben Somsen (who coined the
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Each omnipool allocates liquidity of a single asset into different Curve pools. All Curve liquidity provider (LP) tokens get staked on Convex to boost curve (CRV) rewards earnings. Convex (CNX), another Curve ecosystem token, is also rewarded, and so is conic (CNC), Conic’s native token. Source
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While among major exchanges only Coinbase listings had a statistically significant effect on price right after listing back in early 2021, “now that liquidity has concentrated more into Binance's exchange, it's possible their asset listing will have a higher effect on price,” Talamas told CoinDesk in an email. Source
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