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As the prospect of Chinese property giant Evergrande defaulting on $305 billion worth of debt looms, pundits are weighing in on how the firm’s bankruptcy could impact the legacy and crypto markets. Speculation as to whether the real estate investment giant will default has coincided with a downturn across the
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Popular cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recently amassed a panoply of customer service complaints regarding account locking, hacking and even lost funds.A recent tweet by crypto analyst Kaleo garnered hundreds of comments from users all sharing stories of their unfavorable experiences with the exchange. This isn’t the first time the firm has
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The Bitcoin community is debating the extent to which Bitcoin Core developers and maintainers should shoulder the symbolic burden of hosting its white paper, particularly when doing so could unnecessarily sap their time and finances.The question arose after the Bitcoin white paper was taken down from Bitcoincore.org, a canonical repository
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Recent rumors about U.S. regulation of private, self-hosted crypto wallets have some compelling context.For example, the proposal submitted last month by U.S. authorities to lower the anti-money laundering (AML) threshold for cross-border transactions (its consultation ends today, Friday), seems to support the hypothesis that outgoing Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin is
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Dow Under Pressure as Pre-Election Jitters Weigh on U.S. Stock Market CCN - Capital & Celeb News - The Dow Jones Industrial Average struggled for momentum Tuesday, as investors remained fixated on the election, corporate earnings, and Covid-19. Dow Under Pressure as Pre-Election Jitters Weigh on U.S. Stock Market CCN -
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The "priority" research comes as Spain weighs a global pivot to digital economies. Source
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The sudden takedown of BitMEX has cast a new light on Ethereum’s decentralized finance (DeFi) markets.On Thursday, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and Department of Justice (DOJ) served the Seychelles-based crypto derivatives exchange with a slew of charges, arresting CTO Samuel Reed and seeking out CEO (and admitted
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An Ethereum smart contract feature that offers rebates for fees has developers scratching their heads, wondering if they should toss the old code in light of an exponential rise in transaction costs. Called gas tokens, these smart contract loopholes are a way to send transactions on the cheap by “tokenzing” gas,
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) is working with the Colombian government to see if blockchain-based transparency can help prevent a hotspot for corruption, which happens in the process of bidding for high-value contracts to provide public goods and services. WEF partnered with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Office of
Read MoreIndustry players said Bitcoin's (BTC) price could be impacted once U.S. governing bodies lift COVID-19 prevention measures, such as stay-at-home orders and business closures. "When the world economies begin to recover and come back online after printing, in the case of the U.S. government trillions of dollars, Bitcoin will most
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