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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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Binance Supporting Flow Blockchain with BUSD Stablecoin
New York, September 17, 2020 — Binance, the global blockchain company behind the world’s largest digital asset exchange by trading volume and users, announced today the agreement to support BUSD stablecoin on Flow, the blockchain developed!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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Kraken Cryptocurrency Exchange Gets US Banking License, Plans to Be Global Bank
Cryptocurrency trading platform Kraken has received a banking license recognized under federal law to operate as a bank in the U.S. The company has outlined its plans to offer a number of cryptocurrency-focused financial services locally!--/noptimize-->!--noptimize-->…
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First Mover: Federal Reserve Does What It Wants to Do as Bitcoin Hits $11K
Sep 17, 2020 at 13:08 UTCUpdated Sep 17, 2020 at 13:40 UTC
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dons reading glasses prior to Wednesday’s press conference. (Federal Reserve, modified by CoinDesk)
First Mover: Federal…
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