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Posted by | February 15, 2024
Bitcoin Is Back, Back, Back, Baby

Take a look at the frontpage of CoinDesk today and you could be forgiven for thinking our site is all about Bitcoin. Just look at the headlines: BTC is above...

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Posted by | February 8, 2024
Ether’s Prometheum Test

As crypto regulators have, for years, hemmed and hawed over essential legal questions like “is ether a security?,” the industry has often complained about a lack of legal clarity. It...

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Posted by | December 4, 2023
Introducing Most Influential 2023

It was a year of retrenchment and transition for the crypto industry. After 2022’s scandals, including FTX, Three Arrows and Celsius, asset prices had gotten crushed and the industry was...

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Posted by | December 4, 2023
Stani Kulechov Defied Crypto Winter

Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Avara, the software development company behind decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Aave; the stablecoin GHO, which launched this year; and the upstart Web3...

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Posted by | November 15, 2023
Does Crypto Finance Hamas and Other Terrorists?

Does crypto finance Hamas and other terrorists? In the last few weeks, we’ve heard a lot of back-and-forth on this question without ever really getting a definite conclusion. This is...

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Posted by | November 3, 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried Verdict: The Crypto Industry Reacts

With Sam Bankman-Fried’s conviction yesterday on seven counts of fraud in federal court, the long-running FTX saga appears to be nearing a conclusion (though sentencing and several live issues are...

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Posted by | October 30, 2023
Crypto Winter Is Over

Bitcoin is up 28% in the last month. BTC exchange-trade funds (ETFs) are coming sometime soon. Crypto investment funds saw their largest weekly inflows last week since mid-2022. Meme coins...

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Posted by | October 26, 2023
The Hamas Funding Story Is Why Crypto Is Sick of the Mainstream Media

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it,” the writer Upton Sinclair famously said. And so it goes with...

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Posted by | October 19, 2023
Hamas Crypto Funding Likely ‘Overstated’ – Chainalysis

Reports of tens of millions of dollars in crypto going to fund Palestinian operations in Israel are likely “overstated,” Chainalysis said. The forensics outfit published a blog post arguing that...

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Posted by | October 13, 2023
Is Hamas Using Crypto to Attack Israel? We Don’t Know

This Tuesday, Oct. 10, the Wall Street Journal put out a report claiming that Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups were using crypto to finance their operations. “Hamas Militants Behind...

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