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Coinbase Offers No-Fee Conversion of USDT to USDC
Coinbase Offers No-Fee Conversion of USDT to USDC
December 09, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Coinbase is offering to convert USDT to USDC with no fees.  The firm said in a Thursday (Dec. 8) blog post that the recent turmoil in the cryptocurrency...

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Tether Stablecoins Face Renewed Scrutiny Post-FTX
Tether Stablecoins Face Renewed Scrutiny Post-FTX
December 01, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Tether, an asset-backed cryptocurrency stablecoin, has been lending its coins to customers. That’s according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) today (Dec. 1)....

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Unstable Stablecoins Clear Path for Banks to Step In
Unstable Stablecoins Clear Path for Banks to Step In
November 15, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

The cryptocurrency-flameouts this week have revealed hard truths about privately-issued stablecoins: They’re anything but stable. They’re no safe haven from turmoil. They may not be...

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Corruption Watchdog Criticizes El Salvador’s Bitcoin Spending Secrecy
Corruption Watchdog Criticizes El Salvador’s Bitcoin Spending Secrecy
November 04, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

El Salvador’s development bank has refused to reveal any details about the country’s purchase of bitcoins for an estimated $107 million. According to a Sunday...

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Today in Crypto: Coinbase Touts ML Site Security; Voyager Creditors Against Granting Firm Execs Immunity
Today in Crypto: Coinbase Touts ML Site Security; Voyager Creditors Against Granting Firm Execs Immunity
October 13, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Coinbase has touted its machine learning team’s ability to develop modeling techniques to find bad actors, keeping users’ accounts safe, a company blog said. The...

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Has SWIFT Beaten Crypto to Punch on Cross-Border Payments Interoperability?
Has SWIFT Beaten Crypto to Punch on Cross-Border Payments Interoperability?
October 05, 2022  |  Cross-border Payments

In a pair of papers today, financial messaging service SWIFT claimed that it has solved two of the thorniest problems digital assets must overcome if...

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Today in Crypto: Tether Cuts Commercial Paper Holdings; NYDIG Promotes Tejas Shah to CEO, Nate Conrad to President
Today in Crypto: Tether Cuts Commercial Paper Holdings; NYDIG Promotes Tejas Shah to CEO, Nate...
October 03, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin company NYDIG has promoted executives Tejas Shah and Nate Conrad to the roles of CEO and President, respectively, a press release said. Shah and...

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PSPs Are Making Stablecoin Payments a Reality
PSPs Are Making Stablecoin Payments a Reality
September 29, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

It’s been easy to say that all the dire predictions about stablecoins taking over payments and pushing out national currencies were wildly overblown as their...

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El Salvador Weekly: One Year on, Bitcoin-as-Legal-Tender Is on the Ropes
El Salvador Weekly: One Year on, Bitcoin-as-Legal-Tender Is on the Ropes
September 04, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

El Salvador’s experiment to make bitcoin a legal tender alongside the dollar is rapidly approaching its one-year anniversary on Sept. 7, and the endeavor has...

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