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Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. It is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator that can be sent from user to user on the peer-to-peer bitcoin network without the need for intermediaries.

Today in Crypto: Crypto Rally Slows After Bump Over Ethereum Upgrade; BitGo Eyes Legal Action Over Galaxy Digital Deal

Today in Crypto: Crypto Rally Slows After Bump Over Ethereum Upgrade; BitGo Eyes Legal Action Over Galaxy Digital Deal
Today in Crypto: Crypto Rally Slows After Bump Over Ethereum Upgrade; BitGo Eyes Legal Action...
August 15, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency values remained unchanged with the cooling of a rally in bitcoin and ether, Bloomberg wrote Monday (Aug. 15). Get the Full Story Complete the...

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El Salvador Weekly: Four Questions for President Bukele on ‘Doubt’ Surrounding Bitcoin
El Salvador Weekly: Four Questions for President Bukele on ‘Doubt’ Surrounding Bitcoin
August 15, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele added his voice to the bragging ministers after the United Nations World Tourism Organization’s (WTO) Aug. 1 World Tourism Barometer report...

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Today in Crypto: Binance Recovers $450K Stolen From Curve.Finance; Buterin Estimates Sept. 15 for Ethereum Merge
Today in Crypto: Binance Recovers $450K Stolen From Curve.Finance; Buterin Estimates Sept. 15 for Ethereum...
August 14, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

India’s Enforcement Directorate, which works on probing financial crimes, announced Friday (Aug. 12) that it has frozen assets worth around 3.7 billion rupees ($46.4 million)...

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PYMNTS Cryptocurrency Glossary: Decentralized Finance or DeFi
PYMNTS Cryptocurrency Glossary: Decentralized Finance or DeFi
August 10, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is a confusing business with a language all its own, in part because it is a genuinely new way of doing business and also...

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SEC, CFTC Weigh New Hedge Fund Crypto Reporting Rules
SEC, CFTC Weigh New Hedge Fund Crypto Reporting Rules
August 10, 2022  |  Regulation

Federal regulators are set to issue a proposal that would — among other things — require large hedge funds to reveal their cryptocurrency exposure. Get...

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Today in Crypto: Germany’s Exchange Nuri Files for Insolvency; Reserve Bank of Australia Explores CBDC Use Cases
Today in Crypto: Germany’s Exchange Nuri Files for Insolvency; Reserve Bank of Australia Explores CBDC...
August 09, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Jenny Johnson, CEO of money management giant Franklin Templeton, said in a Bloomberg interview that bitcoin is “the greatest distraction from the greatest disruption I...

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PYMNTS Cryptocurrency Glossary: The Basics
PYMNTS Cryptocurrency Glossary: The Basics
August 08, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Cryptocurrency is a confusing business with a language all its own, in part because it is a genuinely new way of doing business and in...

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Today in Crypto: deBridge Attack Attributed to N. Korean Hackers; Crypto Traders Look to Stocks for Market Stability
Today in Crypto: deBridge Attack Attributed to N. Korean Hackers; Crypto Traders Look to Stocks...
August 07, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

DeBridge Finance, a cross-chain protocol which became a victim of an email-based cyberattack, said the attack likely came from North Korea’s Lazarus Group, Coindesk wrote...

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Taken a Beating on Bitcoin? How ’Bout a Weekend in Vegas?
Taken a Beating on Bitcoin? How ’Bout a Weekend in Vegas?
August 06, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

What’s highly resistant to 40-year high inflation and malingering COVID-19 (and now monkey pox) fears? The idea of winning money, of course, explaining the 2022...

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