Crypto News Roundup for Nov. 1, 2021

Mar 11, 2020 at 17:46 UTCUpdated Mar 11, 2020 at 18:22 UTCDECENTRALIZED DESK: New York-based crypto companies are asking or mandating employees work from home to prevent the spread of COVID-19. (Photo by Danny Nelson for CoinDesk)New York Crypto Companies Move to ‘Work From Home’ in Face of Rising COVID-19 ThreatKadena CEO Will Martino had…

Content moderation decisions from Amazon, Shopify and Twitter following the Capitol riots in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 have put efforts to “decentralize” the web into sharp relief.Alexandra Elbakyan, the woman behind SciHub, at a conference at Harvard in 2010.(Apneet Jolly/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)Jan 12, 2021 at 5:28 p.m. UTCBlockchain Bites: Bitcoin Rebounds, Addresses…

The owner of the stablecoin TrueUSD (TUSD) have taken full control of its operation more than two and a half years after purchasing it from crypto firm ArchBlock.Techteryx, a British Virgin Islands-incorporated firm, bought the business in December 2020, since then the previous owner ArchBlock has continued to manage its operations.Techteryx assumed "full management full…

Jun 23, 2020 at 19:31 UTCJa Rule (Kathy Hutchins/Shutterstock)‘Social Money’ Startup Inks Deal With Rapper Ja Rule, Releases Song With Lil BPlatinum records are coming to cryptocurrency with a new integration between rapper Ja Rule and social currency startup Roll. Announced Tuesday, Billboard Hot 100 artist Ja Rule has inked a deal with Roll, an…

Crypto exchange KuCoin agreed to pay a total of $22 million and terminate access for users in New York state, court documents filed on Tuesday from the Supreme Court of the State of New York County showed.Kucoin will refund $16.77 million to New York customers and pay $5.3 million to the Attorney General of the

Michael Egorov, the CEO of decentralized finance (DeFi) firm Curve Finance, is being sued for fraud by venture capital firms ParaFi Capital, Framework Ventures and 1kx in the U.S.A complaint filed in the Superior Court of California, San Francisco, alleges Egorov misappropriated trade secrets of the three VC firms, and defrauded the firms out of…

Source: CoinDesk Bitcoin Price IndexBitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,575 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), gaining less than a percent over the previous 24 hours.  After Tuesday’s rapid 8% drop in less than five minutes on high sell volume, bitcoin’s prices have steadied. At 00:00 UTC on Wednesday, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by…

While it can be powered by the hybrid car's battery, the boot needs to stay open to avoid overheating.The in-car mining rig(Simon Byrnes)Jan 26, 2021 at 12:19 p.m. UTCUS Man Installs Crypto Mining Rig in Hybrid BMW SportscarA U.S.-based cryptocurrency user has installed a mining rig in the trunk of his BMW i8, running the…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest Prices(CoinDesk)Top StoriesBitcoin held its ground above $67,000 during the European morning following the Fed's hawkish interest rate projections on Wednesday. The U.S. central bank left rates unchanged