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Coinbase calls PEPE a ‘hate symbol,’ prompting calls to boycott the exchange

An email sent out to Coinbase customers describing memecoin Pepe (PEPE) as a “hate symbol” co-opted by alt-right groups has drawn significant ire from the memecoin community. Prominent crypto influencer Borovik.eth shared a screenshot of the email newsletter from May 10 to his 96,000 followers, which cites a 2016 decision from

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BendDAO’s NFT-Collateralized Crypto Loan Platform Suffers a Bank Run, Prompting a Move to Avoid Another Liquidity Crisis

BendDAO – from a distance – looks like an old-school bank: Some customers deposit money into the decentralized finance (DeFi) platform, which loans the money out, giving depositors a cut of the interest payments. Those loans are backed by collateral but with a crypto-quirk: that collateral is pictures of monkeys,

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Optimism token falls 40%, prompting calls to bar dumpers from airdrops

Optimism’s freshly launched governance token, OP, has plunged 40% since peaking at $2.10, leading members of the community to discuss baring those who dumped their tokens from future airdrops. Cryptox reported on Tuesday that the Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution was overwhelmed with demand for the first OP governance token airdrop,

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BIS Chief Blasts Bitcoin’s Viability, Prompting Blowback From Advocates

The chief banker at the bank for central banks, Agustín Carstens, cast doubt on bitcoin’s long-term viability Wednesday, saying it was only a matter of time before a 51% attack brings down the world’s original cryptocurrency.Carstens’ comments, which he delivered to the Hoover Institute, underscored his belief that bitcoin fails

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Filecoin Miners Go On Strike One Day After Mainnet Launch, Prompting Early Reward Release

Filecoin, a decentralized storage network launched by Protocol Labs, is off to a rocky start after a strike by miners just one day after its highly anticipated miannet launch on Oct. 15. Five of its largest miners turned off their machines to protest the project’s “unfair” economic model that requires a

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