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The headlines this week:

— Anonymous set for cyberwar with Bitcoin-powered Russian hacker crew

— Crypto founders exploit Ukraine’s pleas for cash to shill their tokens

— ConsenSys lawsuit reveals JPMorgan owns critical Ethereum infrastructure

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The headlines this week:

— ‘Struggling’ coal plant emits 500% more carbon after Bitcoin mining revival

— Web3 crypto startups poach top execs from Facebook, YouTube, Amazon

— Apple store gunman who demanded $220M crypto ransom dies by cop car 

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The headlines this week:

— Binance will attempt to reverse UK ban amid ongoing global scrutiny

— Jury sides with Craig Wright in $200B Bitcoin case but he still owes $100M

— Just 5% of NFT traders make the vast majority of profits on OpenSea

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• Hackers leak stolen Ledger data.
• Musk tweets and Dogecoin pumps.
• JP Morgan eyes BTC correction.
• Warp to return $5.5M in stolen crypto.
• US targets crypto wallets with new KYC.

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• Coinbase readies for 2021 IPO.
• Bitcoin fees rocket after rally.
• BTC millionaires up 150%.
• ETH 2.0 contract hits $1B.
• Hackers raid Warp for $7M.

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• One River bet $600M on crypto before the rally.
• Bitcoin explodes to set new all-time high.
• Tron hits back at New York securities fraud suit.
• American Express has a new crypto investment.
• PayPal Ventures joins Paxos's $142M fund raise.

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• Grayscale’s portfolio hits $13 billion.
• Estonia pulls rug on 1,000 crypto startups.
• UK fund tells shareholders it’s buying BTC.
• Monero hits 2-year price high.
• Microsoft to use blockchain for gaming royalties.

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• 500 crypto miners found inside Bulgarian energy hub.
• PornHub forced to go fully crypto after fiat snub.
• Steve Wozniak's token multiplies 28 times in one week.
• Blue-chip Italian bank to offer Bitcoin services in 2021.

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• Bitcoin creator Nakamoto vanished 10 years ago.
• Putin forces Russian officials to declare crypto.
• MicroStrategy bounces after analyst downgrade.
• JP Morgan says pensions could bring $600B to BTC.
• Ethereum artist Beeple sells $1.1M worth of NFTs.

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• PornHub running out of fiat options.
• MassMutual buys $100M in Bitcoin.
• IOTA Foundation removes founder.
• Lil Yachty’s token sells out super fast.
• Mt. Gox victims to get just 15% of lost funds.
• Trezor rocked by botnet attack.

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• Fidelity open for Bitcoin-backed cash loans.
• Privacy wallets launder more illicit crypto than ever.
• French law forces exchanges to dox users.
• Oyster exit scammer charged with tax evasion.
• Crypto bank tanks 10% after insider stock sales.
• Silk Road film set for February 2021 release.

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• Coinbase UK reports 38% drop in revenue last year.
• Square pushes for green Bitcoin mining.
• Coinbit exchange charged with market manipulation.
• Wall Street rejects MicroStrategy’s latest Bitcoin plan.
• Ohio blockchain bill for gov't agencies moves forward.
• Mt. Gox Trustee gets new deadline to sell billions in BTC.

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• MicroStrategy wants to sell bonds to buy Bitcoin.
• Diem worried about 'confusing' Libra rebrand.
• Wall Street pours hundreds of millions into crypto.
• Ransomware hackers demand $33M from Foxconn.
• Russian crypto exchange operator gets 5 years.

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The headlines this week:

— China wants you to know its digital collectibles are nothing like bubbly NFTs

— Jack Dorsey leaves Twitter, new chief shows less Bitcoin maximalism

— Silk Road’s Ross Ulbricht sells NFTs to support bid for presidential clemency

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• Darknet revenues top last year's record.
• Addresses with 1 ETH at all-time high.
• MicroStrategy spends $50M more on BTC.
• China's digital yuan goes live... sort of.
• ETH staked hits 1% of total supply.
• Bitcoin's Adam Back wants to ditch 'sats'.

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• Raoul Pal’s bold Bitcoin move.
• Kraken backs Ethereum dev grants.
• Crypto indices by S&P Dow Jones in 2021.
• Ethereum upgrade hits 1M milestone.
• Spotify job hints at crypto future.
• Billionaire Paul Tudor Jones rallies behind Bitcoin... again.
• Billions in ‘dormant’ BTC awoken by price surge.

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• PayPal CEO bullish on all kinds of crypto.
• Visa embraces USDC.
• Ripple relocation still an option.
• Bitmain cuts funding for Bitcoin Core devs
• Grayscale splits its Ethereum fund.
• Lil Yachty to issue Yachty coin.
• US congress may soon regulate stablecoins.

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• Ethereum Beacon Chain launched.
• Libra Association renamed ‘Diem’.
• 20% of PayPal users have used its crypto service.
• High hopes for Bitcoin in Kraken survey.
• Sberbank cryptocurrency slated for 2021.
• USDC issuer hires Wall Street veteran as CEO.
• BTC Markets leaks 270,000 names and emails.

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• $100M of crypto stolen from Bitfinex in 2016 is on the move.
• Bitcoin surges to a new all-time high.
• Yearn merges with Sushi.
• Tezos looking to incorporate shielded transactions.
• Ethereum’s hashrate and mining difficulty increase amidst Ether rebound.
• Bernstein Research admits Bitcoin’s asset allocation role.
• Huawei partnership to increase BitTorrent reach by billions.
• BitMEX welcomes Alexander Hoptner as CEO.

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• Chinese authorities have seized over $4.2B of crypto from the PlusToken Ponzi scheme.
• Ripple is reportedly selling a third of its stake in payments processor, MoneyGram.
• Guggenheim Partners has reserved the right to allocate up to 10% of its Macro Opportunities Fund in Bitcoin.
• Yearn Finance is to join forces with market coverage platform, Cover.
• Investment firm, Cypherpunk has boosted its BTC holdings by 279%.
• Ethereum 2.0’s deposit contract now has over 852,000 ether - worth half a billion dollars - locked in.
• Pizza Hut has confirmed that it will start accepting crypto payments for food orders.

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OKEx sees $110M dollars leave its platform, just hours after reopening asset withdrawals.

Facebook is to move forward with the launch of its own dollar-pegged stablecoin, Libra, in January next year.

Lending protocol, Compound saw over $100M worth of collateral liquidated on its platform yesterday.

Glassnode has revealed that the total amount of Bitcoin held on exchanges has hit a two-year low.

The Russian Government has revealed plans to classify digital financial assets as property.

Coinbase suffered yet another outage yesterday when its app and website went down.

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• BTC miners bag over $353M in October.
• VanEck launch Bitcoin ETN.
• Over 725,000 now locked for Ethereum 2.0.
• Armstrong concerned about wallet tracking.
• PayPal block user for using its own crypto service.
• Was Bitcoin born in London?

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• OKEx has a thousand bucks for returning traders.
• Japan’s SBI to pay 1% interest for BTC.
• Ripple at two-year high after price triples in a week.
• Yearn Finance absorbs Pickle after $20M hack.
• US spy chief fears China’s influence on Bitcoin.
• Coinbase Pro halts margin trading... again.

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• IRS caught sending bogus letters to crypto traders.
• Ethereum 2.0 reaches its staking threshold just in time.
• Chainalysis raises 100 million dollars to achieve unicorn status.
• Coinbase AUM reaches $20B.
• Sean Lennon falls back in love with Bitcoin.
• Yearn founder to launch second platform.

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The headlines this week:

— WoW gold farmer Steve Bannon shilled dumb Chinese crypto before arrest

— Bitcoin billionaires, a16z threw cash at US Senator before crypto tax vote

— Craig Wright used Slack app to threaten witness as they gave evidence

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• PayPal could've bought 70% of BTC mined last month.
• More DeFi fails: Pickle Finance loses $20M to 'evil jar' attack.
• CipherTrace files second patent for Monero-tracking tech.
• Pantera Capital raises another $5M for its Bitcoin fund.
• KuCoin restores services months after major hack.
• PSA: Cardano whale fooled by elaborate crypto phishing scam.

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• Bitcoin address creation rate hits two-year high
• Craig Wright’s $20B trial delayed until April
• OKEx withdrawals restart after founder’s release
• Gambling sites buying millions of dollars worth of BTC
• Binance hires former Trump lawyer in lawsuit against Forbes
• Ethereum Foundation boosts rewards for white hat hackers

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• Dubai whales to stake $10M for Ethereum 2.0
• Crypto exchange Liquid confirms hackers stole sensitive user data
• JPMorgan chief Jamie Dimon reaffirms 'blockchain, not Bitcoin'
• Binance sues Forbes, two journalists over mysterious 'Tai Chi' doc
• Rapper T.I.'s associates ordered to pay $100K for dodgy ICOs
• A tiny number of BTC addresses control 95% of the supply

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• Bitcoin breaks $18K to set 2020 high
• Fresh BitMEX lawsuit alleges market manipulation
• Huobi's takeover of rival exchange Bithumb stalls
• Dutch central banks asks crypto users to dox themselves
• ConsenSys buys Ethereum dapp tool Truffle
• 100K ether now locked for Ethereum 2.0 transition

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• Coinbase crashes as Bitcoin price nears $17K
• Uniswap liquidity drops 40% as staking incentive ends
• Origin loses $7M to DeFi hackers
• Binance pulls plug on its pound-pegged stablecoin
• Two new acquisitions for Novogratz' Galaxy Digital
• Intercom's chairman is the latest tech founder to embrace Bitcoin
• SEC chairman Clayton confirms exit by end of 2020

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• Crypto markets indifferent to Bitcoin Cash's latest fork
• Fidelity addresses Bitcoin skepticism
• Grayscale crypto stack tops $10B
• $1B worth of Maker's DAI stablecoin now in circulation
• Cloudflare hiccup spells trouble for Uniswap
• US stimulus checks traded for Bitcoin now worth more than $2,900

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The headlines this week:

— Don’t be fooled by NYC’s mayor praising Bitcoin — he’s just shilling an ICO

— Russia bails out Kazakhstan as Chinese Bitcoin miners suck power grid dry

— Huobi follows Binance, FTX, and BitMEX in ‘moving’ to a tax haven

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The headlines this week:

— Patreon wants creators to shill their own crypto tokens — because why not

— Self-styled Ross Ulbricht successor to give up Silk Road 2.0 Bitcoin

— Craig Wright's $68B Bitcoin dispute has both sides claiming he's Satoshi 

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The headlines this week:

— Robinhood share price and revenues tank as Dogecoin popularity wanes 

— Alibaba, Tencent rewrite history by scrubbing NFTs to appease Beijing

— Top US agencies ready to wage crusade across the crypto industry

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— Fortnite’s Epic Games loves NFTs now that Steam rejected them entirely

— Bitcoin miners overload Kazakhstan’s electricity grid, forcing rations 

— Treasury overlord Yellen worried crypto undermines US sanctions, dollar 

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The headlines this week:

— AI project scores $400K Aussie gov’t grant to combat crypto money laundering 

— Husband and wife use peanut butter sandwich to trade nuclear secrets for crypto

— Bukele’s $4M Bitcoin pet hospital isn’t wagging any tails

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The headlines this week:

— Iran lifts Bitcoin mining ban in face of power shortages, US sanctions

— Bitcoin miners who set up their own power plants face crippling $5.6M fine

— Don't blame Coinbase for huge social engineering hack, says Coinbase

— Central, South Asia love DeFi so much, crypto volume spiked 700%

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The headlines this week:

— Binance claims it has no crypto exchange business in China — that’s a lie

— Bitcoin miners go nuclear in the hunt for cheap electricity

— Ethereum mining pools killed by China’s cryptocurrency crackdown

— Europe now world’s number one crypto economy, overtaking East Asia 

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The headlines this week:

— Hacker could’ve printed unlimited ‘Ether’ but chose $2M bug bounty instead

— Right-click savers send NFT marketplace Cent into indefinite hiatus

— Intel hopes new Bitcoin mining chip will reduce its environmental impact 

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The headlines this week:

— Binance staff exploited users’ crypto trades for personal gain, whistleblower 

— It took just 12 days for Coinbase to submit to SEC, despite Armstrong rant

— El Salvador president Bukele down 15% on Bitcoin, despite buying the dip

— Bitcoin.org hackers peddled BTC giveaway scam similar to Twitter heist

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The headlines this week:

— Mastercard buys Monero-tracing analytics unit to build trust in crypto

— Coinbase stock is in the toilet, now it wants to sell $2B in junk bonds

— BitMEX insider Dwyer agrees to US extradition after hiding out in Bermuda

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The headlines this week:

— Canada’s largest markets watchdog banned Tether — is USDT a security?

— ‘Satoshi Nakamoto’ shows up to challenge Wright’s Bitcoin white paper win

— SEC threatens Coinbase over crypto interest account, CEO cries foul

— Bitcoin Babe crypto exchange chief says banks treat her like terrorist

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The headlines this week:

— China says returning 500K miners to Genesis still in-line with crackdown

— Teen clipboard hackers who stole $800K Bitcoin could still get away with it

— Chia miners sell damaged SSDs at a loss after ‘green Bitcoin’ tanks 90%

— Anti-Bitcoin Trump: Crypto ‘may be fake,’ invest in US dollars instead

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The headlines this week:

— European football clubs made $200M selling crypto tokens to fans

— Gartner’s Hype Cycle predicts 5 years until mainstream NFT adoption

— Coinbase wants to help track crypto cyberattacks — but its own users are shit out of luck

— Crypto goon gets 5 years in prison for $4M ‘decentralized bank’ ICO scam

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The headlines this week:

— Chinese state media brags about killing 11 companies caught using crypto

— Tether personally issued TRON’s Justin Sun at least $200M in USDT

— Italian feds say Mafia pays cartels for cocaine with Bitcoin and Monero

— DeviantArt enlists AI to police NFT markets for stolen art

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The headlines this week:

— London law firms form global ‘crypto fraud network’ CFAAR

— Chinese BTC miners sent 200K rigs to Canada but can’t find enough power

– Crypto breaks 2 records in a day for biggest fine and DeFi hack

– Messi accepts crypto in Paris Saint-Germain deal worth over $40M per year

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The headlines this week:

— IT guy at Polish police headquarters caught mining Bitcoin in secret

— Bitcoin SV rocked by fifth 51% attack, serial culprit attempts double spends

— Fake Bitcoin news wave hits Apple, Amazon, and now Saudi Aramco

— Binance won’t get medical records in fight over $10M crypto, says Malta charity

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The headlines this week:

— Metro worker upholds tradition by mining Bitcoin with stolen electricity, quits

— Hacker demands Bitcoin ransom to stop porn flood on ransomware forum

— Binance charity sued over $9M Bitcoin meant for cancer patients in Malta

— FaZe talent manager took 20% cut for brokering crypto pump and dumps

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The headlines this week:

– We ranked crypto companies with Glassdoor — it opened a rabbit hole

– Giant PS4 farm stole $250K power a month to ‘mine’ FIFA — not Ethereum

– Swede gets 15 years in prison for $16M crypto Ponzi that lasted a decade

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