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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…
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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…
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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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Decentralized Trading Platform Grows 230% in 2 Days As Paxful Left Venezuela
The loss of some is the gain of others, especially the crypto-verse. On September 14, 2020, Paxful announced that it was closing its operations in Venezuela because the OFAC sanctions made it very risky for them to provide their services to…
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Say Hello to the Singularity
The current blockchain world is so full of crazy ups and downs, it’s easy to become so focused on the short term that one loses track of the big picture. But it’s important to fight this tendency – because the big picture is awfully…
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Bullish for Bitcoin? Twitter Sentiment and BTC Deposits on Exchanges Dropping
Social mentions about bitcoin have touched an all-time low on Twitter. Also, BTC deposits on major cryptocurrency exchanges are dropping steadily and are at their lowest levels since November 2018. Will these two developments push bitcoin…
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Price of Tomorrow Author Jeff Booth Calls Bitcoin A ‘Must’ And A ‘Lifeboat’
Prominent entrepreneur and Price of Tomorrow author Jeff Booth is among the latest popular individuals to publicly endorse Bitcoin. In a recent Twitter post, he called the primary cryptocurrency a lifeboat and a “must” during economic…
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