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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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Lightning Labs, the developer of the high-speed transaction protocol Lightning Network (LN), has secured $10 million in Series A funding round.The news was announced by Lightning Labs CEO and co-founder, Elizabeth Stark, in a blog post on Feb. 5. The company plans to allocate the raised funds to further
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“You get to talk to lightning nodes with dollars.”That’s how Zap CEO Jack Mallers described his lightning wallet’s new U.S. dollar clearing system in a phone interview with CoinDesk. Announced Thursday, the upgrade aims to address a number of hurdles faced by current cryptocurrency payment options.“You can download it, link
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Former Google executive Surojit Chatterjee has joined Coinbase as the company’s new chief product officer. Before joining Coinbase, Chatterjee worked as a Google’s vice president of product, tallying 11 years at the internet company, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong wrote in a Jan. 29 blog post announcing the hire. An experienced hireDuring
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Coinbase has hired a former vice president of product at Google to be its chief product officer. Surojit Chatterjee spent 11 years at Google, where he worked on payments, adtech and commerce. He most recently led the continuing development of Google Shopping, a service available in more than 90 countries. Prior
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Crypto lending startup BlockFi now supports litecoin and dollar-backed stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) on its platform, enabling users to earn interest on, trade and receive loans backed by the assets.The initial annual percentage yield on the assets will be 8.6 percent for USDC and 3.78 percent for litecoin. In 2020, the
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This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Richard Chen is a partner at 1confirmation, a seed-stage venture fund supporting crypto-native founders fueling the decentralization of the web and society.Bitcoin dominance. The
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Just in time for the 2019 tax season, cryptocurrency accounting firm Lukka announced a “do-it-yourself” crypto tax preparation product tailored for retail investors. Known as LukkaTax, the product evolved from LibraTax, a commercial crypto tax calculator Lukka released in 2014 when the company was first formed.While Lukka has primarily
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The first application on Kadena's public blockchain is a tracking platform for CBD oil. Source
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Cole leaves Stack Overflow, a resource site for programmers, where he's been vice president of product since 2012. Becoming familiar with bitcoin that same year, Cole was tapped for the Wyoming Taskforce for his expertise on the subject and helped create state jurisdictional rules for bitcoin and blockchain adoption. Source
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