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Former U.S. President Donald Trump continued his overtures to the cryptocurrency industry Wednesday when he sent a Bitcoin transaction during a stop at PubKey, a crypto-themed bar in New York. 02:13 Crypto and the Election: All You Need to Know Ahead of November 01:53 U.S. Adds 206K Jobs in June; Mt. Gox Begins Repayments in

news Venture studio Consensys is giving $175,000 to seven different open source software projects on the ethereum network. Announced on Oct. 10, these projects include a forward-looking ethereum software client called Lighthouse, an oracle network for off-chain data called Tellor, as well as, a mobile decentralized app builder called Alice, among others. About the new…

Feb 12, 2020 at 03:14 UTCUpdated Feb 12, 2020 at 03:17 UTCBitcoin Hits 5-Month High Following Fed Chair Powell’s Privacy PraiseBitcoin’s (BTC) price is trending solidly back above the 5-digit figure mark.At around 15:00 UTC on Feb. 11, the price of BTC rose back above $10,000 from around $9,850 to $10,351 within an hour after…

news Harbor has pivoted from helping companies issue security tokens to helping them tokenize existing securities. Announced Monday, the startup has created tokens on the ethereum blockchain representing the shares of four real estate funds worth $100 million. The move is intended to make these private securities easier to trade for the 1,100 investors that…

Attorneys for former FTX executive Ryan Salame are asking for 18 months in prison, citing his cooperation with authorities and remorse.They argue that Salame wasn’t involved in the core fraud perpetrated by Bankman-Fried’s inner circle.Attorneys for Ryan Salame, a former FTX executive who pled guilty to election fraud charges in September, are asking the court

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Jun 2, 2020 at 13:35 UTCUpdated Jun 2, 2020 at 13:43 UTCCAPITULATION? U.S. lawmakers grilled Libra board member David Marcus last year. The consortium has overhauled its plans. (Credit: House Financial Services Committee)Frances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics. Her book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing,”…

news Medici Land Governance, a subsidiary of Overstock’s venture arm Medici Ventures, has signed a memorandum of understanding with a local government in Mexico to create a digital land records system. According to Monday’s announcement, the memorandum of understanding was struck with the municipal government of Tulum, which is located in the state of Quintana…

news Crypto finance startup Circle’s USDC stablecoin was fully backed with fiat reserves at the close of 2018, according to auditing firm Grant Thornton. The auditor published an attestation report on Wednesday, stating that Circle had $251,211,209 held in custody accounts as of Dec. 31, 2018, against the 251,211,148 USDC tokens in circulation at the time. Goldman…