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news The central bank of France, Banque de France, is seeking a blockchain analyst who will help the bank define a program for implementing digital currency. In a job opening posted on October 16th and listed under the Financial Stability and Operations branch of the bank, the bank called for an analyst with experience in…

Apr 3, 2020 at 12:34 UTCUpdated Apr 3, 2020 at 13:08 UTCCredit: Maksim Boiko/TwitterThe Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) used bitcoin wallet activity and an old exchange account as key evidence to arrest a Russian rapper on charges of conspiracy to commit money laundering. In an affidavit unsealed earlier this week, FBI special agent Samantha…

feature While some blockchain projects quickly burned through the capital they raised during the heady days of 2017, others prepared for this market downturn by limiting access to their own funds. Such was the case at the New York-based blockchain startup Blockstack, which raised nearly $54 million in 2016 and 2017 from a Series A…

Dec 13, 2019 at 20:28 UTCUpdated Dec 13, 2019 at 20:31 UTCChinese President Xi Jinping addressing students of MGIMO, on March 23, 2013 in Moscow (via Shutterstock).For all of bitcoin’s promise of being the world’s first decentralized, peer-to-peer cryptocurrency, 65 percent of the total hash power resides in China. That's the highest in at least…

Belgium's top financial regulator has issued a new warning about cryptocurrency scams. The Financial Services and Market Authority (FSMA) declared that "cryptocurrencies are the hype of the year" in an announcement published on Monday. The FSMA is a public institution that supervises the Belgian financial sector alongside the National Bank of Belgium (NBB). The regulator said in…

news Vitalik Buterin, the creator of the ethereum blockchain project, has proposed increasing user fees on the network for the purposes of supporting developers with sustainable funding. “I propose we consider supporting a community norm that client [and] wallet [developers] can [and] should charge a 1 gwei/gas fee for [transactions] sent through their wallet,” tweeted Buterin…

news UPDATE (March 29, 19:45 UTC): The SEC has also delayed the VanEck/SolidX bitcoin ETF proposal. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed making a decision on two bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) proposals earlier this year. The first ETF proposal, filed by Bitwise Asset Management with NYSE Arca, was published in the Federal Register on Feb. 15,…

Aave token holders started voting today for two governance proposals in response to the systemic liquidation risk posed by Curved founder Michael Egorov’s large borrowing position on the lending protocol.Authored by on-chain risk management platform Chaos Labs, the two proposals aim to disable the borrowing of CRV – the native governance token for stablecoin exchange…

Chainlink tokens surged Thursday as wealthy investors swapped ether for link (LINK) following the release of the company's Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) earlier this week, data shows.LINK exchanged hands for $8 around midday in Europe as trading volume more than doubled to $580 million, helping extend weekly gains to over 25%.On-chain data shows some whales…