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07 Feb 2023 07:22

Crypto Bank Juno Resumes Services After Pause
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/07/crypto-bank-juno-resumes-services-after-pause/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

The firm paused services last month amid its former crypto custodian Wyre's turmoil.

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07 Feb 2023 04:37

Digital Currency Group And Genesis Reach Restructuring Agreement With Creditors
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/dcg-genesis-reach-restructuring-agreement

The plan would see the sale of Genesis alongside other measures in a deal reached with DCG and Gemini Trust Co.

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07 Feb 2023 02:04

Bankrupt Lender Genesis and Parent DCG Reach Initial Agreement With Main Creditors: Source
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/06/bankrupt-lender-genesis-and-parent-dcg-reach-initial-agreement-with-main-creditors-source/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

The deal includes "an equitization of the infamous 10-year promissory note that DCG gave Genesis in return for the 3AC claims," a person familiar with the situation said.

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07 Feb 2023 01:26

‘Disinflation’ Trends Will Soon ‘Hit a Brick Wall’: Oanda’s Edward Moya
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/02/06/disinflation-trends-will-soon-hit-a-brick-wall-oandas-edward-moya/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Oanda senior market analyst Edward Moya told CoinDesk TV that until the service sector’s growth weakens, the economy will continue to see wage pressures.

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07 Feb 2023 01:25

Legal Expert Says Mango Markets Exploit Case Is Wake-Up Call For DAOs
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/03/legal-expert-says-says-mango-markets-exploit-case-is-wake-up-call-for-daos/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Benjamin Bathgate, partner at Canadian-based law firm McMillan LLP, says the lawsuit against Avraham Eisenberg, the alleged Mango Markets exploiter, could impact how DAOs implement their legal and governing structures in the future.

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07 Feb 2023 00:41

FTX Money Backed U.S. Lawmakers With Future of Crypto in Their Hands
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/06/ftx-money-backed-us-lawmakers-with-future-of-crypto-in-their-hands/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Many members of Congress with the biggest influence over coming U.S. cryptocurrency legislation received direct contributions from top executives of FTX, leaving them with a complicated political relationship with the crypto industry.

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07 Feb 2023 00:40

Independent FTX Examiner Could Cost Crypto Exchange $100M, Court Told
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/06/independent-ftx-examiner-could-cost-100-million-court-told/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

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06 Feb 2023 21:31

StarkWare Partnering With Chainlink for StarkNet Growth
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/06/starkware-partnering-with-chainlink-for-starknet-growth/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

The provider of blockchain scalability solutions will integrate the data provider’s price feeds.

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06 Feb 2023 21:27

Concerning Ordinals.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/concerning-ordinals

An objective look at the technical concerns behind Ordinals and the implications on the Bitcoin network.

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06 Feb 2023 18:40

Why Multisig Is Essential For Anyone Who Believes In Bitcoin
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/you-need-multisig-custody-for-bitcoin

Anyone holding a non-trivial amount of bitcoin should consider multisignature security, including how to mitigate potential attacks.

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06 Feb 2023 15:08

UK Financial Regulator Warns Crypto Firms of Jail Time for Unauthorized Ads
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/06/uk-financial-regulator-warns-crypto-firms-of-jail-time-for-unauthorized-ads/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Rules aren’t set in stone but will mirror those for other high-risk investment, the Financial Conduct Authority said

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06 Feb 2023 13:07

South Korea Issues Guidelines for Regulating Security Tokens as Legislation Looms
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/06/south-korea-issues-guidelines-for-regulating-security-tokens-as-legislation-looms/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Financial regulators in South Korea are working to bring security tokens into the scope of the country's capital markets rules.

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06 Feb 2023 09:33

You’re Still Early: An Objective Look At Bitcoin Adoption
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/an-objective-look-at-bitcoin-adoption

How many bitcoin users are there? How should we define a bitcoin user? An analysis for categorizing and tracking user growth compared to other estimates.

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05 Feb 2023 21:58

FTX Asks Politicians Who Received Bankman-Fried Donations to Return Money
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/05/ftx-asks-politicians-who-received-bankman-fried-donations-to-return-money/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Sam Bankman-Fried and his companies showered D.C. with up to $93 million in political donations. Now, the bankrupt FTX wants its money back.

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04 Feb 2023 15:53

Reduced To Penny Stocks In 2022, Public Bitcoin Miners Are Primed To Come Back
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/penny-stock-bitcoin-miners-coming-back

After a historically-bad year for bitcoin mining, public companies that fell into penny stock status surged back in January following a strong bitcoin rally.

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07 Feb 2023 07:21

First Mover Asia: Crypto Is Flat Before Fed Chair Speech; Japan's SBI Building a Metamask Competitor for Yen-Denominated NFT Trading
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/02/07/first-mover-asia-crypto-is-flat-before-fed-chair-speech-japans-sbi-building-a-metamask-competitor-for-yen-denominated-nft-trading/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Crypto trading is largely denominated in USD, but the United States isn't the center of the digital assets world; bitcoin trades sideways as investors await the latest Jerome Powell comments.

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07 Feb 2023 02:05

New FTX CEO Charged Crypto Exchange $690K Last Year: Hearing
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/06/new-ftx-ceo-charged-crypto-exchange-690000-last-year-hearing/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

John J. Ray III has been leading FTX's bankruptcy case following the departure of Sam Bankman-Fried.

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07 Feb 2023 02:04

How Bitcoin NFTs Might Accidentally Fix Bitcoin's Security Budget
https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/02/06/how-bitcoin-nfts-might-accidentally-fix-bitcoins-security-budget/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Ordinal NFTs have rejuvenated Bitcoin’s transaction fee market. Will it prove useful?

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07 Feb 2023 01:25

Blockchain Analytics Firm Elementus Triples in Valuation Despite Crypto Winter
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/06/blockchain-analytics-firm-elementus-triples-valuation-despite-crypto-winter/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Elementus increased its valuation significantly from a little more than a year ago in a new $10 million fundraise.

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07 Feb 2023 01:24

Crypto Exchange Binance to Suspend US Dollar Bank Transfers This Week
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/06/crypto-exchange-binance-to-suspend-us-dollar-deposits-this-week/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

The suspension is expected to last at least two weeks while the exchange finds a new banking partner.

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07 Feb 2023 00:40

Decentralized Lending Protocol Clearpool to Start Institutional Borrowing Platform
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/02/06/decentralized-lending-protocol-clearpool-to-start-institutional-borrowing-platform/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Clearpool Prime is set to begin operations in the first quarter of this year.

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06 Feb 2023 23:53

FTX Being Advised by Cybersecurity Firm Sygnia on Hack Inquiry, CEO Ray Says
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/06/ftx-being-advised-by-cybersecurity-firm-sygnia-on-hack-inquiry-ceo-ray-says/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

The crypto exchange’s current chief executive blasted weak cybersecurity controls at the company under Sam Bankman-Fried’s leadership.

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06 Feb 2023 21:30

Italy Setting Up Crypto Environment That Meets EU's New Laws, Central Bank Governor Says
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/02/06/italy-setting-up-crypto-environment-that-meets-eus-new-laws-central-bank-governor-says/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Local regulators have begun setting up "authorization and supervision" activities mandated by the bloc's forthcoming MiCA rules.

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06 Feb 2023 21:26

How Bitcoin Ordinals Can Change The Future Of Mining
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-ordinals-can-change-mining-revenue

The sudden emergence of inscribed Bitcoin blocks has been met with criticism, but it offers a glimpse of how Bitcoin block space will evolve.

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06 Feb 2023 18:23

The Rise of Crypto's Brand of Regenerative Finance
https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2023/02/06/the-rise-of-cryptos-brand-of-regenerative-finance/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Solar Punk Manuel Alzuru says "a social awakening is happening" and the future of crypto will be tied closely to ReFi. "This is the very beginning," he says.

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06 Feb 2023 13:08

Crypto Exchange Binance Introduces Tool for Calculating Taxes on Transactions
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/06/crypto-exchange-binance-introduces-tool-for-calculating-taxes-on-transactions/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

The tool, initially available to users in Canada and France, supports reporting of up to 100,000 transactions.

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06 Feb 2023 11:35

Bernstein: Ethereum Activity Has Picked Up, With Shanghai Upgrade the Next Big Catalyst
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/02/06/bernstein-ethereum-activity-has-picked-up-with-shanghai-upgrade-the-next-big-catalyst/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

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06 Feb 2023 04:18

First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Not Ready to Soar as Investors Await Fed Chair Speech, More Earnings
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2023/02/06/first-mover-asia-bitcoin-not-ready-to-soar-as-investors-await-fed-chair-speech-more-earnings/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

ALSO: As crypto prices rise, venture capital into the blockchain space is likely to rise. But will venture firms learn from their past overindulgences in the sector? Bitcoin dips below $23K in early weekend trading before recovering slightly.

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05 Feb 2023 14:14

StarkWare to Open Source Its Ethereum Scaling System
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/02/05/starkware-to-open-source-its-ethereum-scaling-solution/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

The tech company was valued at $8 billion during a funding round last year.

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04 Feb 2023 07:12

Takashi Murakami to Release Collection of 13 NFTs Linked to Physical Hublot Watches
https://www.coindesk.com/web3/2023/02/04/takashi-murakami-to-release-collection-of-13-nfts-linked-to-physical-hublot-watches/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines

Twelve of the thirteen timepieces will be made exclusively available to holders of Murakami and Hublot’s previous NFT collection.