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Blockchain Bites: Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Fully Loaded, IRS Sends Befuddling Letters – Again

Daniel KuhnNov 24, 2020

More than 500,000 ETH have been locked into Ethereum 2.0's deposit contract, kick-starting the network's major, multi-year development phase.

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Blockchain Bites: XRP’s Rally, Chainalysis’ $1B Valuation, Bitcoin’s Volatility in Perspective

Daniel KuhnNov 23, 2020

The U.S. government uses USDC to bypass Venezuelan blockades. Chainalaysis eyes a $100 million raise. BTC is less volatile than 22% of S&P500 stocks, VanEck finds.

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Blockchain Bites: Coinbase Cuts Margin Trading, Binance Sweeps US Clients, OKEx Offers Rebates

Daniel KuhnNov 25, 2020

Coinbase has also changed the way it will alert clients to relevant tax information.

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Blockchain Bites: BlockRock Exec Says Bitcoin Is ‘Here to Stay,’ Investors Load Into BTC Puts

Daniel KuhnNov 20, 2020

Institutional buyers are loading up on BTC puts, Deribit analysts say. Goldman Sachs thinks the “digital yuan” could be in a billion hands in a decade.

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Blockchain Bites: FATF Considers DeFi, Binance Sues and One Step to a BTC ETF

Daniel KuhnNov 19, 2020

PLUS: Deutsche Bank analysts reportedly said customers increasingly prefer bitcoin over gold.

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Latest Billionaire Bull, Zcash’s Upgrade, Grayscale’s $10B Breakthrough

Daniel Kuhn

A metric that has predicted previous bitcoin market tops indicates this rally has just begun.

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Run, Uniswap’s Hemorrhaging Value, Anchorage’s Banking Bid

Daniel Kuhn

Bitcoin is nearing all-time highs in price and market cap last set three years ago.

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Blockchain Bites: Data Unions. Hard Forks. And One Citi Analyst’s Case for $300K BTC.

Daniel Kuhn

MIT researchers resoundingly reject blockchain-based voting. A Citibank MD thinks bitcoin could break out. And another DeFi protocol was hit with a flash loan attack.

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Blockchain Bites: Bankrupted Cred’s Missing Millions, Bitcoin Miners’ Quarterly Losses and More

Daniel Kuhn

The top stories in bitcoin, crypto and more – all in one place.

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Blockchain Bites: $16K BTC, $1B DAI, $13.6B TVL in DeFi

Daniel Kuhn

Bitcoin is riding fresh three-year highs as nearly all UTXOs are in profit, while MakerDAO's DAI becomes the latest crypto "unicorn" with a $1 billion market cap.

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Path to $20K, Ethereum’s ‘Unannounced’ Fork and Biden’s Crypto-Friendly Picks

Daniel Kuhn

ALSO: ShapeShift delists three privacy coins citing regulatory uncertainty and $3 billion in blockchain bonds come to market on Friday.

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Blockchain Bites: Billionaire Bullish on Bitcoin, Updates on Fowler’s Crypto Capital Case and More

Daniel Kuhn

The Silvergate Exchange Network added another exchange member while Riot Blockchain recorded bumper Q3 revenues.

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Blockchain Bites: Figure Files for Banking Charter, Cred for Bankruptcy

Daniel Kuhn

Also: Ripple is opening a new office in Dubai and President-elect Joe Biden mulls two crypto-friendly potential cabinet picks.

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Blockchain Bites: Buterin’s Stake, Google’s Bitcoin Searches, Square’s Bustling BTC Business

Daniel Kuhn

Cash App generated over $1 billion in bitcoin revenues for Square in Q3. Google search data shows little bitcoin "FOMO" amid the current market bull run.