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Bitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 4, 2020As the price of bitcoin reels from its biggest drop since Black Thursday, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup! For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases , subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. Today's Stories:Despite a slight bounce…

news Creditors of Mt Gox waiting to get their bitcoin back from the long-defunct exchange can now get pennies on the dollar by selling their claims to Fortress Investment Group. In a letter sent to creditors, Michael Hourigan, a managing director at the New York-based private equity firm, said he is purchasing these claims for…

Jun 3, 2020 at 14:49 UTCUpdated Jun 3, 2020 at 14:58 UTCBinance’s Korean crypto trading arm is now working with blockchain analytics startup Coinfirm to better ensure anti-money laundering (AML) compliance. The extended partnership, announced Tuesday, will see Coinfirm’s AML solution integrated with Binance Korea’s services on Binance Cloud – a platform for launching digital…

news Even as bitoin SV (BSV) enjoyed a Craig Wright/Satoshi bump Tuesday, the U.S. Copyright Office was hard at work dispelling notions that it officially “recognized” anyone as the inventor of bitcoin. “As a general rule, when the Copyright Office receives an application for registration, the claimant certifies as to the truth of the statements…

news A closely-watched proposal to list a bitcoin exchange-traded fund on the Cboe BZX Exchange was withdrawn Wednesday – and the ongoing partial shutdown of the U.S. government appears to be to blame. As CoinDesk reported, the filing was “temporarily withdrawn”, according to VanEck VanEck director of digital asset strategy Gabor Gurbacs. He also said that…

news Japan’s Financial Services Agency (FSA) has issued draft guidelines for funds investing in crypto. The Sept. 30 announcement, which mentions crypto assets in the introduction but only alludes to them in text of the proposed amendment itself, is latest move by the authorities in the country to prudently manage the development of the market…

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin set a goal of 100,000 TPS for Ethereum in a Thursday blog post. This goal will be hit with increased integration of Layer 2s, but some work on standardization will need to be done first. 01:11 Private Transactions Surge on Ethereum 00:59 Many DeFi Protocols 'Flagrantly Disregard' Regulations: Gavin Wood 00:53

A Raspberry Pi computer used to build Raspiblitz, a DIY guide for crafting your own lightning node. (Credit: The Coinspondent)Bitcoiners Sprint to Improve Lightning Network in 2-Day Virtual HackathonAs coronavirus is changing everyone’s lives, making it harder to go outside or interact with friends and family, people are leaning more than ever on digital video…

Dec 5, 2019 at 14:00 UTCUpdated Dec 5, 2019 at 15:42 UTCThe latest ethereum hard fork, Istanbul, is bringing Layer 2 solutions to the network – this time in the form of a payment channel.Cryptographic research hub Matter Labs released Thursday the testnet of ZK-Sync, in what the firm claims is a step toward making…