Belarus Working to Ban P2P Crypto Transactions to Fight Fraud

The country will still allow people to buy and sell crypto through registered exchanges.

• 2023-07-04
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Bitcoin, Ether rise; Dogecoin falls despite record high transaction volume

Top 10 non-stablecoin cryptos traded mixed, while investors continue to assess U.S. debt talks.

• 2023-05-24
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Bitcoin Developers Debate Block of BRC-20 Transactions

Bitcoin Core developers are considering getting rid of BRC-20 transactions, a type of smart contract that enables the creation and management of tokens on the Bitcoin network.

• 2023-05-11
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Robinhood’s crypto revenue nearly matches last quarter’s, with plan to buy back $500 million in stock from Sam Bankman-Fried ‘ongoing’

Year-over-year crypto revenue fell 30%, but a 1% decline from the fourth quarter could be a good omen.

• 2023-05-11
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Bitcoin Developer Calls to Block Ordinals, BRC-20 Tokens From Network

Crypto Twitter and the rest of the Bitcoin developer community appear neutral to the development, however.

• 2023-05-10
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Litecoin transactions jump amid Bitcoin blockchain congestion, higher fees

Daily transactions on the Litecoin blockchain hit all-time highs over the past two days amid the Bitcoin network’s congestion and higher transaction fees, Glassnode data showed.

• 2023-05-10
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To restart halted bitcoin trading, Binance had to make withdrawals more expensive

The world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange has gotten a little too burdened.

• 2023-05-08
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Now valued at $500M, Cosmose ditches Stripe to adopt Near's crypto solution

For all the investment speculation and hype, cryptocurrency has so far struggled to find meaningful use cases. Now there's some effort from Singapore to turn the general public into crypto adopters through blockchain payments. Cosmose AI, a nine-year-old company that uses AI analytics to track in-store foot traffic and engage with shoppers online, is partnering with Near, one of the blockchain protocols competing with Ethereum.

• 2023-04-24
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Trezor Model T Gets Bitcoin Privacy Upgrade With New CoinJoin Feature

CoinJoin increases privacy by combining multiple bitcoin payments from multiple spenders to produce a single transaction whose history and ownership are obfuscated.

• 2023-04-20
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Reclaiming Purpose in Crypto: CoinDesk's Projects to Watch 2023

The original cryptocurrency, bitcoin, was invented to solve a problem. We returned to that inspiration to spotlight 19 blockchain, crypto and Web3 projects and the big problems they seek to solve.

• 2023-04-17
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