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The city will seek a vendor to help City Hall pay all or part of its employees' salaries in bitcoin. Residents would also have the option of using cryptocurrency to pay for city services.Feb 12, 2021 at 12:25 p.m. UTCMiami Commissioners Reject Mayor’s Push to OK Crypto Use, Vote to Study It First: ReportMiami’s city…

news A judge in Canada will rule in favor of a creditor protection request filed last week by Canadian crypto exchange QuadrigaCX, issuing a 30-day stay of proceedings. The controversial platform went offline last week, later announcing that it was filing for protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) due to its inability to locate…

Mar 18, 2020 at 04:00 UTCCORONA SCAMS: Malicious actors offered to sell face masks and hand sanitizer, creating phony shipping labels and, on occasion, sending victims an empty box. (Image via Shutterstock)Thieves Swindle $2M From Coronavirus Preppers With Hand Sanitizer, Face Mask ScamsScammers purporting to sell pandemic essentials – such as face masks, hand sanitizer…

news The spread between the price of bitcoin on South Korean and U.S.-based crypto exchanges, which returned in June and hit 16-month highs, has disappeared once again. A measure of how much more South Koreans pay for bitcoin, the spread, known colloquially as the “kimchi premium,” has reached remarkable levels, peaking at 54.48%, according to researchers…

Featured SpeakerJenny JohnsonPresident and CEOFranklin TempletonJenny will discuss developing crypto-linked investment products in a bear market, the mood among her clients and her lon...Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team.Featured SpeakerJenny…

news Two congressmen from Florida and North Carolina have introduced two bipartisan bills aimed to help prevent cryptocurrency price manipulation. Representatives Darren Soto (Democrat) and Ted Budd (Republican) jointly announced Thursday that their two bills – “The Virtual Currency Consumer Protection Act of 2018” and the “U.S. Virtual Currency Market and Regulatory Competitiveness Act of…

I’m not going to call Roman Storm or Roman Semenov innocent for their work building the now-sanctioned Tornado Cash protocol. I’m not even going to say the two aren’t guilty of the three specific crimes of which they were accused. But I am willing to say the two are caught up in something much bigger…

Oct 15, 2020 at 16:00 UTCBitcoin News Roundup for Oct. 15, 2020With bitcoin falling back towards $11K and news out of CoinDesk’s invest: ethereum economy conference, 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, Nexo.io…

Grayscale Investments, the world’s largest digital currency asset manager, has filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to convert its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) into a bitcoin spot ETF, the company announced in a press release Tuesday.The move comes just after the SEC cleared the way on Friday for bitcoin futures ETFs to…