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Blockchain forensic firm Elliptic says there’s “no evidence” that Hamas is receiving a significant volume of cryptocurrency donations to fund its attacks against Israel.“There is no evidence to support the assertion that Hamas has received significant volumes of crypto donations,” Elliptic said in an Oct. 25 statement. The amounts raised
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What angered Bity is FINMA tightening know-your-customer (KYC) rules. Anyone using a Bitcoin ATM in Switzerland must now do a KYC check – in other words, reveal their identity – if they transact more than 1,000 francs (about $1,150) over a 30-day period. This is being implemented in an undemocratic
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The blockchain analytics firm says nearly 4,000 validators have already unstaked 141,499 ETH (worth about $270 million) that’s currently waiting to be withdrawn. This represents less than 1% of Ethereum’s total validators and staked ETH, according to Nansen. Crypto exchange Huobi is waiting to remove almost 40,000 ETH, making it
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The first day of Paris Blockchain Week (PBW) is bringing more thoughts on the ongoing crisis in the global banking system, with industry executives comparing the collapses of major cryptocurrency firms like FTX with the fall of banks like Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).On March 22, PBW hosted a panel discussion
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Before the suit kicked off early last year, LBRY had already been under SEC investigation for three years. The LBRY team claims to have complied with the SEC in supplying nearly 1 million pages of documents along with multiple in-person testimonies. Those documents and interviews, according to the company, cost
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In an astonishing turn of events, two lucky miners from the Solo CK mining pool have defied all odds and added a new block on the Bitcoin blockchain in the same week. On Monday, a tiny miner successfully solved a block with a modest hash rate capacity of 126 terahashes
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Two Bitcoin mining giants are duking it out for cheap electricity in the tiny town in Texas.Both Bitdeer, a mining firm that spun out from Chinese giant Bitmain, and Riot Blockchain, one of leading publicly traded Bitcoin mining firms in the United States, are operating data centers hosted at a
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Asians are known to have a love for property. In Singapore, 88% of residents own their homes. Hong Kong’s home ownership rate is much lower at 50%, as sky-high property prices keep out aspiring homeowners. But the territory’s investment appetite also includes smaller and more affordable real estate assets — such
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El Zonte, a rustic beach town of just 3,000 people located on the coast of El Salvador in North America, uses bitcoin (BTC) as its sole currency and medium of exchange. The people of El Zonte have created a robust crypto-economy for themselves, using the world’s flagship crypto to run
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Lau: Absolutely. You know, it’s a Chinese saying — it’s either a curse or blessing. May you live in interesting times and absolutely, that’s where we are right now. One thing we’ve noted about Covid, while most people are sheltering in place, technology has not stayed in place. Not
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