News Roundup

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Blockchain Bites: Rethinking Libra, Craig Wright and Something Smells Fishy in Blockchain
Craig Wright will go to trial, while IBM and a Norwegian association team up to track salmon on blockchain.
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Blockchain Bites: BitLicense at 5, Lawsky's Fallacy and Hehmeyer's Pivot
As the BitLicense turns five, the issuing watchdog looks to lure blockchain startups to New York, while a major brokerage firm is pivoting to crypto.
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Blockchain Bites: PayPal's Push, FATF's Rules and 'Overstated' Libra Fears
Industry leaders reflect on PayPal's reported plan to offer direct access to crypto for its 325M users, while banks and crypto startups look for solutions to FATF's Travel Rul...
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Blockchain Bites: Bitmain's $4B Valuation, Cambodia's CBDC and BTC-e's Bust
Bitmain's ousted co-founder is offering to buy his rival out of the company at a $4B valuation, significantly less than at the company's height.
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Blockchain Bites: COMP x2, Reddit Scales and Factom Goes Bankrupt
The COMP governance token is seeing massive gains and potential listings on Coinbase Pro and CoinFlip, while Reddit looks to scale its Ethereum-based project.
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Blockchain Bites: Trump on Bitcoin, Powell on Digital Dollars and the Truth About Terrorist Financing
Who watches the watchdogs? President Trump reportedly told his Treasury Secretary to go after Bitcoin while the DEA failed to properly oversee crypto investigations.
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Blockchain Bites: River's Rise, Canada's CBDC and Bitcoin's Whales Post-Halving
The number of Bitcoin whales is at its highest level since 2017, as the network adjusts its difficulty setting for the first time post-halving.
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Blockchain Bites: Canaan's Plunge, Revolut's Control and Lightning Nodes in Africa
Canaan Creative's stock is at the lowest price since going public while Revolut is simultaneously ceding ownership of and exerting control over client's crypto holdings.
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Blockchain Bites: JPMorgan on Bitcoin, South Korea on CBDCs and the Porn Industry on Crypto
JPMorgan bond analysts think bitcoin has passed its first stress test while South Korea's central bank is continuing to research CBDCs.
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Blockchain Bites: Designing Digital Dollars and Following the Quadriga Trail
The Ontario Securities Commission says QuadrigaCX, an infamous Canadian exchange, was a Ponzi scheme, while the National Science Foundation is issuing a grant to design a nati...
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