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Blockchain Bites: Coinbase and BlockFi Make Big Hires, Tron Said to Get Coronavirus Relief
It's all about labor. Tron claims to have received employment protection while Dutch officials tell crypto companies to comply or die.
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Blockchain Bites: Hyperledger Makes Inroads, Bitcoin Gets 'Harder' and Buffett's Not 'Halving' It
Bitcoin's difficulty has increased ahead of the halving event as more retail investors pour in. Warren Buffett has yet to be enticed.
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Blockchain Bites: Bitfinex Sues, Miners Prepare, Congress Considers
The U.S. Senate is considering blockchain voting during the COVID-19 crisis, while crypto becomes a mainstay in the Middle East.
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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin Whales and American Buyers May Be Driving This Rally
Amid this market rally, Bitcoin wallet startups report an uptick in users and profits. Get the latest bite-sized news here.
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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin's Boom Roils Markets and a16z Makes a Long-term Play
While FOMO drives up bitcoin's price and derivatives market, Telegram announces another delay and Andreessen Horowitz raises a $515 million fund.
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Blockchain Bites: What the Bitcoin Halving Means for Miners and Prices
Predictions and price models abound ahead of Bitcoin's halving, expected in less than two weeks.
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Blockchain Bites: WEF, IBM and a Chinese City Show Support for Blockchain
IBM and the WEF both have plans for solving disruption to supply chains disrupted by the coronavirus crisis.
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Blockchain Bites: Capital-Constraining Compliance and Tether's 'Interoperability Bridge'
The researchers developing the "digital yuan" have tapped an AI firm to look for financial use cases while Dole unveiled a 5-year blockchain plan.
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Blockchain Bites: Coinbase Oracle, Gun Sirer’s Grants and Lightning-Powered Private Messages
Coinbase's new service may outcompete Chainlink while AVA Labs is looking to fund DeFi development on its public testnet.
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Blockchain Bites: China's Miners, Africa's Venmo and Cuba's New Exchange
Binance launches the Venmo of Africa, Cuba gets a new exchange and Starbucks will trial the "digital yuan."
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