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With bitcoin fighting for $11K and the first CBDC in real life, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup! With the Federal Reserve’s decision on rates due later Wednesday, bitcoin traders will be watching the…
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In the early days, Bitcoin proposed a simple model of how the world could be transformed: The free market was going to produce inflation-proof money with strong privacy features, which could be used to avoid taxes. Over time, people would…
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Kraken is the first cryptocurrency firm to become a bank. On Wednesday, the Wyoming Banking Board voted to approve the San Francisco-based crypto exchange’s application for a special purpose depository institution (SPDI) charter. Kraken is…
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Sep 16, 2020 at 13:07 UTCUpdated Sep 16, 2020 at 13:56 UTC Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao says the centralized exchange’s BNB tokens might benefit from the decentralization trend. (CoinDesk archives, modified by CoinDesk)…
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Another contender is joining the ring of decentralized finance (DeFi) platforms sparring to win market share from the Ethereum ecosystem. Ava Labs is launching its Avalanche blockchain next Monday, Sept. 21. The upcoming launch comes on the…
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A token minting system is coming to the Polkadot blockchain ecosystem, promising to be a leaner, meaner version of Ethereum’s ERC-20 standard, the mechanism that launched a thousand token sales. Announced Wednesday, Polimec, the token…
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Despite much anticipation, the Indian cryptocurrency bill is not included in the list of bills to be introduced in the current session of parliament. Meanwhile, a new report of India’s government planning to ban cryptocurrency trading has…
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Peer-to-peer (P2P) crypto exchange Paxful is shutting down its operations in Venezuela, apparently, to comply with U.S. economic sanctions against the leftist government of disputed president Nicolas Maduro.On Tuesday, a Paxful…
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Aberdeen, Hong Kong, September 16, 2020. – More than 10 years after the first cryptocurrency was successfully mined, the mining space is more controversial than ever. The process was created to be democratic; to allow any PC with spare…
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