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Stripe’s relatively modest hiring push (it has 4,000 employees) comes amid a surge in crypto payments integrations across online retailers and even social media platforms. Strike, the crypto startup behind Twitter’s new bitcoin tipping feature, is preparing to release its payments API in an aggressive bid for mass crypto adoption. Original
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55 days from now will be the hundred-year anniversary of when the American industrialist and business magnate Henry Ford talked about a unique “energy currency” that could “stop wars.” The well known founder of the Ford Motor Company suggested that a currency could be backed by energy in kilowatt-hours (kWh)
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The creator of Litecoin, Charlie Lee, continues to guide us through memory lane. For part one, he took us through Litecoin’s fair launch. Considering the small number of projects that have managed to do that, it was a pretty big achievement. Today, for part two, we’re going to cover the
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The creator of Litecoin, Charlie Lee, is ready to celebrate the project’s 10th anniversary. And, what better way to do it than by giving the public the oral history of Litecoin? Of course, that’s a figure of speech. Since it’s 2021, he gave us that “oral history” through a Twitter
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The price of Bitcoin fell 5% today following “breaking” (read: weeks old) news that the People’s Bank of China, or PBoC, had declared all cryptocurrency transactions illegal.With that in mind, let's take a nostalgic look at the last 12 years of FUD out of China, and see if we can
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The founder of two cryptocurrency hedge funds in New York, Stefan Qin, has been sentenced to 7.5 years in prison and three years of supervised release. He is also ordered to forfeit about $55 million. The Department of Justice (DOJ) said that he “engaged in a scheme to steal assets”
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In 1921, American industrialist Henry Ford proposed the creation of an “energy currency” that could form the basis of a new monetary system — offering striking similarities to the peer-to-peer electronic cash system outlined in Satoshi Nakamoto’s 2008 Bitcoin (BTC) whitepaper. Front page of the New York Tribune dated Sunday, December
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Stefan He Qin, the founder of two cryptocurrency hedge funds has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after U.S. authorities found that cheated investors out of $54 million,A Sept. 15 statement from the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced that U.S. District Judge Valerie Caproni handed Qin
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On-chain data shows Bitcoin exchange reserves have hit the lowest value in 3 years, here’s what it might mean for BTC’s price. Bitcoin Exchange Reserves Lowest In 3 Years As Negative Netflows Continue As pointed out by a CryptoQuant post, exchange reserves have been continuing their downtrend, and have now reached lows
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The leader of a cryptocurrency scheme that swindled over $30 million from investors has pleaded guilty to fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) said. He now faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Leader of $30M Crypto Scheme Pleads Guilty to Fraud The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced
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