Least Volatile Cryptos

This New Coding Language Could Help Unlock Bitcoin’s Smart Contract Potential

With the introduction of Sapio, Jeremy Rubin hopes to expand Bitcoin's smart contract use cases and increase the "financial self-sovereignty" of its users.

Market Wrap: Do-Nothing Markets Stay Steady as Bitcoin Sticks to $9,200

A quiet bitcoin market has investors remaining hopeful of future improvement.

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  Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Sets New Record High 2 Months After Halving

  CoinDesk
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  Latest Bitcoin price and analysis (BTC to USD)

  Coin Rivet

Blockchain Bites: Chainlink’s Interest, Ethereum’s ‘ReGenesis’ and Crypto Taxes

Retail interest in Chainlink is booming, Ethereum may follow Cosmos on its path to upgrade and the U.K. central bank is mulling a CBDC.

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  BitGo is First Wallet Platform to Announce Support for the Travel Rule for its Clients

  Business Wire
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  Shyft Debuts ‘Decentralized Version of SWIFT’ for FATF Travel Rule

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VMware Joins Samsung, Salesforce as Investor in Digital Asset’s Series C Funding Round

Enterprise blockchain maker Digital Asset says VMware has joined its Series C funding round, though it didn't say how much has been raised.

Five Years On, Ethereum Really Is the ‘Minecraft of Crypto-Finance’

The Ethereum community has delivered on many of its promises, says the author of a new book charting the blockchain's early history.

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  Texas Man’s Alleged Use of PPP Funds for Crypto Instead of BBQ Has Feds Asking ‘Where’s the Beef?’

  CoinDesk
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  Binance’s crypto payments card to debut in Europe starting next month

  The Block

Market Wrap: Stocks Make Gains While Bitcoin Sticks to $9,200

A bullish stock market left bitcoin behind Monday with the world’s oldest cryptocurrency trading flat.

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  Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Sets New Record High 2 Months After Halving

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  Latest Bitcoin price and analysis (BTC to USD)

  Coin Rivet

Blockchain Bites: It’s Never Been Harder to Mine Bitcoin

Bitcoin's mining difficulty is at a record high, Singapore's CBDC may find commercial use and Chinese companies are going in on Filecoin.

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  Drop in Bitcoin ‘Whale’ Addresses Suggests Market May Be Decentralizing

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  Market Wrap: Stocks Make Gains While Bitcoin Sticks to $9,200

  CoinDesk

World Bank Investigates Smart Contracts as Financial Tools, With Mixed Results

The World Bank has looked at the benefits of smart contracts and found the blockchain instruments to be a "limited" financial tool.

Singapore’s Central Bank Eyes Commercial Role for Its Blockchain Payments Tech

Project Ubin has completed its last development phase and is now being considered as the basis for commercial digital currency ventures.

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  Project Ubin, the Singaporean money authority's blockchain initiative, moves closer to commercialization

  TechCrunch
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  Singapore's Blockchain-Based Payments Network Ready For Commercial Debut

  Benzinga

The Real Story Behind Tesla’s Crazy Rally

As Elon Musk settles into being richer than Warren Buffett, NLW looks at what is driving the Tesla stock rally.

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  Tesla’s Elon Musk Overtakes Buffett On Billionaires Rich List

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  Ten Thousand Day Traders an Hour Are Buying Tesla Shares

  Bloomberg

Google Searches for Chainlink Hits High as Link Token Rallies

Have you googled Chainlink lately? You're far from the only one, according to new data.

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  Kraken Adds 3 DeFi Tokens – COMP, KAVA, KNC

  CoinDesk
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  First Mover: Twelve-Fold Gains for Aave’s LEND Token Might Be More Than DeFi Hype

  CoinDesk

Bitcoin News Roundup for July 13, 2020

With BTC mining difficulty reaching a new record high, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back with your bitcoin news roundup!

Crypto Long & Short: Dogecoin, Market Manipulation and the Downside of a Coinbase IPO

Noelle Acheson explains how the dogecoin rise exemplifies the creative destruction underway in markets, and what a potential Coinbase listing could mean for the development of crypto.

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  Even the IRS Admits Some Crypto Tax Regulations Are ‘Not Ideal’

  CoinDesk
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  Vulgar Crypto Index (Rhymes With ‘Bitcoin’) Hits All-Time High

  CoinDesk

The Mixed Signals Economy: The Breakdown Weekly Recap

Jobless claims are down, coronavirus cases are up and the markets simply don’t know what to do.

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  10-year Treasury yield touches 7-week low

  Yahoo Finance Video
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  China Stocks Surge and NYC Real Estate Craters: 5 Stories Shaping Markets Today

  CoinDesk

Telegram’s Defeat Isn’t ‘Binding’ in Kik Case, Judge Tells SEC

Kik's proverbial day in court may take a lot longer than Telegram's, if the judge’s response to the SEC during a hearing this week is any indication.

Market Wrap: Traders Buy the Dip and Bitcoin Holds at $9,200

Bitcoin sticks to the $9,200 price range after some light selling early in the day.

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  Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Sets New Record High 2 Months After Halving

  CoinDesk
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  Latest Bitcoin price and analysis (BTC to USD)

  Coin Rivet

Money Reimagined: COVID-19’s Crash Course in Exponential Math

Money requires a network effect, helped by the self-reinforcing idea that “everyone’s using it because everyone’s using it.”

Cardano Creator Compares Criticism of Project to ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’

Infighting is hurting crypto, IOHK's Charles Hoskinson says, but he won't "apologize for kicking people in the teeth" on Twitter if someone is attacking Cardano or its community.

First Mover: Kyber Token’s Eightfold Increase Reveals Bet on Future Market-Share Growth

Prices for decentralized exchange Kyber's KNC token have jumped eightfold in 2020, outshining the performance of Binance's BNB coin.

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  Kraken Adds 3 DeFi Tokens – COMP, KAVA, KNC

  CoinDesk
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  First Mover: Twelve-Fold Gains for Aave’s LEND Token Might Be More Than DeFi Hype

  CoinDesk

Market Wrap: Stocks Tick Downward and so Does Bitcoin, to $9,200

Most markets are down Thursday, including stocks and bitcoin.

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  Drop in Bitcoin ‘Whale’ Addresses Suggests Market May Be Decentralizing

  CoinDesk
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  Blockchain Bites: It’s Never Been Harder to Mine Bitcoin

  CoinDesk

Tron Arbitration Challenged in Hostile Work Environment Lawsuit

Two technology developers are trying to keep their workplace harassment lawsuit against the Tron Foundation in a court rather than arbitration.

Blockchain Bites: CENTRE’s Blacklist, Brazil’s Stablecoin Boom and Coinbase Is Going Public?

Coinbase is reportedly looking to go public, CENTRE has blacklisted a USDC address and U.S. sanctions could restrict crypto firms in China.

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  CENTRE appears to have blacklisted an address holding USDC for the first time

  The Block
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  Crypto Exchange Coinbase Reportedly Preparing To Go Public: 'An Important Milestone'

  Benzinga

Ferrari, McLaren and $15M in Crypto Seized as Chinese Police Bust Arbitrage Scam

The novel Chinese scam saw perpetrators create fake crypto assets to fleece investors seeking arbitrage opportunities.

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  Exclusive: Crypto exchange Coinbase readies landmark stock market listing, sources say

  Reuters
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  Crypto Conversation: Tether's Recent Token Swap Explained

  TheStreet.com

London Stock Exchange Parent Assigns Financial ‘Bar Codes’ to 169 Cryptos

The addition of bitcoin and its ilk to LSEG's database, in response to customer demand, is a sign that institutions are slowly embracing the asset class.

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  Exclusive: Crypto exchange Coinbase readies landmark stock market listing, sources say

  Reuters
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  First Mover: With Trading Volumes Slumping, Are There Too Many Crypto Exchanges?

  CoinDesk

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Jumps Past $9,400 Despite Weak July Volumes

A short rally popped bitcoin's price to $9.4K during what’s been a month of sluggish volumes.

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  Drop in Bitcoin ‘Whale’ Addresses Suggests Market May Be Decentralizing

  CoinDesk
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  Blockchain Bites: It’s Never Been Harder to Mine Bitcoin

  CoinDesk