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Inflation Hit Ethiopia Demonetizes Currency To Curb Cash Hoarding
The Ethiopian government has unveiled a new set of banknotes that are expected to help authorities in curbing cash hoarding, illegal trade and illicit financial flows. The move is also aimed at boosting the liquidity of banks that are!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Slumps to $10.7K; Ethereum Fees Rise Again
Bitcoin lost momentum Thursday while DeFi delirium pushes fees on Ethereum back up.
Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $10,920 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 0.73% over the previous 24 hours.Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $10,735-$11,052BTC…
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Uniswap Recaptures DeFi Buzz With UNI Token’s Airdropped Debut
Uniswap’s governance token, UNI, which was launched Wednesday night, has been on a roller-coaster ride in the past 24 hours, but despite the price volatility the total market cap of UNI could make the automated market maker (AMM) one of the…
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Judge Orders Bitfinex to Turn Over Tether Loan Documents (Again)
Bitfinex and Tether must turn over documents detailing their financial relationship and history to the New York Attorney General’s office (NYAG), a New York Supreme Court justice ruled again on Thursday.
Judge Joel M. Cohen, the judge who…
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Monetary Policy Is Finished and Macro Debates Are Boring, Feat. Raoul Pal
A wide-ranging conversation about the state of macro, why central banks can’t really do anything and why private markets are leading the future of money.
Raoul Pal is CEO and co-founder of Real Vision, a platform fundamentally disrupting…
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Kiss’ Gene Simmons Tweets Cryptic Message About His Bitcoin Plans
Rock band Kiss’ lead singer Gene Simmons has tweeted a cryptic message about bitcoin in response to a discussion on making cryptocurrency accessible to the masses. Simmons previously said he was interested in bitcoin, noting that its price!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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Prosecutors Detail Russians’ Crypto Phishing Scheme in Forfeiture Suit
The two Russians who were sanctioned earlier this week by the U.S. Treasury Department on accusations of being crypto thieves allegedly got their millions through market manipulation and phishing.
Prosecutors detailed Danil Potekhin…
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Ethereum Gas Fees Drive Gnosis-Powered Prediction Market to xDai’s Layer 2
This isn’t the CryptoKitties craze of 2017.
“The situation is different now,” Stefan George of Gnosis told CoinDesk. Lots of dapps are clawing for Ethereum’s compute power. If activity calms on one decentralized finance (DeFi) platform,…
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Blockchain Bites: Uniswap’s Token, Kraken’s Bank, Bitcoin’s Newbies
Uniswap issued a governance token, Kraken is the world’s first crypto bank and there are more “newbie” bitcoin investors than any time in the past two years.
Top shelfCrypto’s bankKraken Financial, a newly formed division of the…
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Bitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 17, 2020
With bitcoin slipping with European stocks and a leaked memo about China’s blockchain plans, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!
Federal Reserve officials said Wednesday they would hold U.S. interest rates…
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