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Blockchain Bites: Will Crypto See Any of the CBDC Action?
The world is growing comfortable with digital assets: JP Morgan banks crypto, England discusses CBDCs and Sheila Warren a place for privacy coins.
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Blockchain Bites: Making Sense of the Halving, Consensus Distributed's First Day
Get all the news from the first day of Consensus: Distributed, including the latest on Bitcoin's third halving. (And, who had the best Zoom backgrounds?)
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Blockchain Bites: Your Guide to Consensus Distributed
Blockchain Bites will publish twice daily throughout Consensus: Distributed, setting the schedule and rounding up what you may have missed.
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Blockchain Bites: Paul Tudor Jones, Open Options and Why Bitcoin Looks Strong Heading to the Halving
Bixin is launching a $66M fund, Massive Adoption's Jacob Kostecki is getting sued and Filecoin is delivering physical hard drives.
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Blockchain Bites: Introducing the CoinDesk 50 and a Roadmap to Consensus: Distributed
In the news: a new blockchain voting proposal, Cash App's bitcoin profits and why we're sooner having a halving.
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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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