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Market Wrap: Bitcoin Tests $13.6K as DeFi Total Value Locked Dips Below $11B

Oct 30, 2020 at 20:20 UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Tests $13.6K as DeFi Total Value Locked Dips Below $11BBitcoin capped the week weaker while DeFi crypto locked dipped.Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $13,354 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Gaining 0.14% over the previous 24 hours.Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $13,191-$13,663BTC above its 10-day…

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Desperation Among Filecoin Miners Creating a Big Market for FIL Borrowing

Oct 30, 2020 at 19:46 UTCUpdated Oct 30, 2020 at 20:15 UTCFilecoin creator Juan Benet(CoinDesk archives)Filecoin miners are paying large investors an annual percentage rate as high as 40% to borrow FIL, the closely-held native token required to participate in the decentralized storage network.This dynamic has created a lending market and is leading to more…

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The company that coined the term ‘hash rate’ is not concerned about its recent decline

Bitcoin's hash rate is down on the year, though the price remains largely unaffected. 444 Total views 7 Total shares Even though the Bitcoin (BTC) hash rate has experienced a sharp decline in recent weeks, the head of research at Blockchain .com, Garrick Hileman is not concerned.Blockchain .com was founded in 2011 by dissenting members…

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Game review: Axie Infinity currently rules the Pay-to-Win-to-Earn roost

The Pokemon-inspired Axie Infinity has grown to become the number one nonfungible token, or NFT, game on the Ethereum blockchain, with over 7,000 on-chain active monthly users.This week saw the launch of its $2.97 million Axie Infinity Shards (AXS) governance token sale on Binance Launchpad, so Cointelegraph got deep down and dirty with the game…

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Italian man caught allegedly using airport computer systems for ETH mining

You can't just mine crypto for profit using other people's systems without them approving it. 1600 Total views 22 Total shares An Italian airport staffer allegedly took advantage of the computer systems at his place of work in order to mine Ethereum (ETH).Employed at an airport located in the Italian city of Lamezia Terme, the…

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Uniswap Retroactive Proxy Contract Airdrop Proposal Receives 28 Million Votes

Community voting is on for Uniswap’s new governance proposal. The same will see users receive more than 5 million UNI tokens via a proxy contract. As of now, more than 28 million votes have gone in favor of the airdrop. Around 1.3 million votes are against the proposal. Voting Begins For Uniswap’s Second UNI Airdrop…

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MakerDAO Members Voting on a Safeguard Against BProtocol Flash Loan-Type Attack

Oct 30, 2020 at 19:22 UTCThe Maker DAO community is voting Friday on a proposal to change its governance system to harden it against flash loan attacks.This proposal comes after the team from BProtocol flash borrowed $7 million worth of MKR tokens from derivatives platform dYdX to swing a vote on Maker in their own…

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Bitcoin Developers Still Divided on Specifics of Taproot Activation

Oct 30, 2020 at 19:15 UTCBitcoin Developers Still Divided on Specifics of Taproot ActivationThe code for Taproot, Bitcoin’s biggest upgrade in years, is finalized and has been packaged into a forthcoming update. Only, it’s not ready to be deployed yet because Bitcoin developers have differing opinions on the best route to activation.To parse the opinions…

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Prime Broker Bequant Adds Risk-Monitoring Service in Push for Added Compliance

Oct 30, 2020 at 19:14 UTCBequant CEO George Zarya (Bequant)Bequant is adding New York-based Solidus Labs’ surveillance tools to its digital asset services business.Solidus Labs serves several crypto exchanges, including New York-based BlockQuake and Hong Kong-based AAX. Bequant will be one of its first prime broker clients. The London-based Bequant has been rapidly adding features…

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Why Satoshi Chose Halloween to Release the Bitcoin White Paper

Oct 30, 2020 at 19:00 UTC(mythja/iStock via Getty Images Plus)Was it an allusion to the Reformation or something to do with the ancient pagan tradition of Samhain?For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, iHeartRadio or RSS.This episode is…