Filecoin will be the first protocol to use this production-ready version of drand to create decentralized, verifiable randomness for “leader selection.”
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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Tests $12K; DeFi Debt Outstanding Hits Record
Bitcoin’s back on the price roller coaster and DeFi borrowing is hitting a new high.
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Mining Stocks Are Beating Bitcoin in a Bullish Cryptocurrency Market
Riot and Marathon have rallied 97% and 128% over the past year while bitcoin has gained 3 percent.
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Facebook Taps David Marcus to Lead Payments Initiatives
Marcus will continue running Libra’s Novi digital wallet as he takes on Facebook Financial.
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The Latest on the Global Economy’s Most Contentious Relationship
China and the U.S. trade high-profile sanctions, but the real impact is showing up in banks and on the Hong Kong stock market.
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After Tumultuous Election, Belarus Goes Offline
Internet is down in Belarus as people are protesting the results of presidential election
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Ethereum Classic’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
Ethereum Classic suffered two 51% attacks in the same week. One week later, exchanges, investors and developers are split on the implications.
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Interactive Brokers to Pay $38M in Settlement Over AML Lapses
Publicly traded brokerage firm Interactive Brokers has agreed to pay multi-million dollar penalties to the SEC, Finra and CFTC for failure to flag suspicious transactions and lapses in AML compliance.
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Blockchain Bites: Inside Cosmos, Bitcoin at $200B, DeFi Surges
Traders are expecting bitcoin to go higher. DeFi is surging in web traffic. And Cosmos is alive and well, despite internal feuding.
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Three Crypto Analysis Firms Advance in ‘TechSprint’ RegTech Competition
The fintech showcase has three $50,000 cash prizes for three regtech focus areas.
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