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Blockchain Bites: Bitmain's Shakeup, Bitcoin's Resilience and Ethereum's Anonymity
Bitmain's ousted co-founder reportedly retook the company's office building while a protocol update made Bitcoin more resilient to state attacks.
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Blockchain Bites: Avanti's Angel Round, Civil's Closure and a Data Breach
Ethereum Classic hardforked to become more compatible with Ethereum while a French energy firm is cleared to issue a new ICO.
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First Mover: ECB Stimulus May Offer Market Hope After Bitcoin Fails (Again) to Break $10K
After another failure above the $10,000 mark, some bitcoin traders are now looking ahead to this week's European Central Bank meeting, where authorities could commit to an ext...
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Blockchain Bites: Poolin Lending, Square Crypto's Grant and a Senate Candidate Who Holds Bitcoin
Square Crypto supports Bitcoin's lightning network development, crypto mining pool Poolin expands lending and ICE is going after the petro dollar's creator.
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First Mover: BSV Doubles in 2020 as Bitcoin Offshoot Wins Devotees
The controversial cryptocurrency is winning in the crypto markets this year as developers and investors see its blockchain's technical differences as a good thing.
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Blockchain Bites: Chase Class Action, 30 Words for Censorship and a Bitcoin Bug
Chase Bank settled a class action brought by crypto purchasers while a new report shows a flaw in time-locked bitcoin transactions.
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Wall Street
Crypto Long & Short: The Emergence of Prime Brokers Adds Resilience but Also Risk
Coinbase, BitGo and Genesis all have strong growth trajectories and balance sheets. But with that stability comes a certain degree of centralization.
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Sonny Ross/CoinDesk archives
Money Reimagined: What CoinDesk's Style Debate Says About Crypto as Public Tech
Blockchains are flexible new forms of public infrastructure, says Michael Casey. Plus: with China rushing in, Africa is a prime battleground for the future of money.
Sonny Ross/CoinDesk archives

Donald Trump
Blockchain Bites: Magic's Raise, Compound's Distribution and Trump's Twitter War
In the war between Trump and Twitter, decentralized systems may win.
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First Mover: Bitcoin Rally Shows Traders Don't Care That Goldman Hates Their Asset Class
Traders can also gloat over how much better bitcoin is performing in 2020 than Goldman Sachs shares.
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