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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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Blockchain Bites: Ripple Sues YouTube, Monero Hits the Box Office and Draper Wants Crypto Everywhere
Is Renaissance bullish on bitcoin? What's the "crypto/lobbyist" revolving door? Will YouTube take down XRP giveaway scams?
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Blockchain Bites: DeFi Hacker Is Back, Oil Craters and Big Tech Won't Sue You
Big Tech vows not to sue developers using their patents to build solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic while a hacker returns funds stolen this weekend.
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Blockchain Bites: ConsenSys Cuts, dForce Doomsday and Bitcoin ATMs Boom
ConsenSys cut staff for the second time in 2020. DForce faces doomsday. And Bitcoin ATMs are booming.
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Blockchain Bites: Binance vs. Ethereum, MicroBT vs. Bitmain, Libra vs. the World
Binance unveiled plans for a new smart contract blockchain, which could compete with Ethereum, while MicroBT looks to beat rival Bitmain to market.
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