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Someone Bought a CryptoPunks NFT for $443, Sold It for $4.4 Million in Ethereum

CryptoPunks are considered the OG’s of NFTs, not only due to their heritage—they were minted in 2017, well before this year’s boom—but also how much they’ve influenced [...]

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6 August 2021 21:58

Ethereum Game Axie Infinity Daily Users Grow 10X Since June to Hit 1 Million

Ethereum-based monster-battling game Axie Infinity recently surged into the spotlight with soaring NFT transaction volume and new all-time highs for its native AXS governance token, and now [...]

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6 August 2021 21:21

Yellen’s Treasury Behind Anti-Crypto Tax Provision in Senate Bill: Report

A debate in the U.S. Senate over taxing the crypto industry changed course suddenly on Thursday—and now it appears that U.S. Treasury Janet Yellen is the reason [...]

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6 August 2021 21:06

Brian Brooks Resigns as Binance U.S. CEO

Brian Brooks, the former general counsel of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase who went on to serve as Comptroller of the Currency, has stepped down as Binance.US CEO just [...]

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6 August 2021 19:42

Bitcoin, Ethereum Markets Unfazed by Crypto Tax Talk in Congress

All the talk today is on dueling amendments to a crypto tax reporting requirement in the bipartisan infrastructure bill making its way through Congress. Industry advocates say [...]

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6 August 2021 19:36

SEC Charges Ethereum ‘DeFi’ Project Over Alleged $30M Fraud

The Securities and Exchange Commission has announced charges against a crypto lending project and two of its executives over an unregistered securities offering. According to a press [...]

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6 August 2021 18:25

These Ethereum NFTs Change Based on Who Bids for Them

Fortune’s latest issue focuses on the rise of decentralized finance and the wider crypto world, so it makes sense that the publication would follow the lead of [...]

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6 August 2021 17:59

Wilshire Phoenix Takes Aim at Grayscale With Rival Bitcoin Trust

Wilshire Phoenix, a New York-based financial firm, has filed a new amendment to its wShares Bitcoin Commodity Trust (BCT) application. The initial filing was made back in [...]

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6 August 2021 16:01

CryptoPunk Owners Have New Way to Make Money: Renting Out Their Avatars

A non-fungible token (NFT) rentals protocol called reNFT launched on the Ethereum mainnet recently, allowing users to “rent out” assets like CryptoPunks. While interesting on a conceptual [...]

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6 August 2021 14:42

Ethereum Co-Creator ‘Confident’ About Next Steps After London Hard Fork

Yesterday, Ethereum completed a major upgrade, the London hard fork.  It appears to have gone off without a hitch, implementing EIP-1559, an update that reduces the variability [...]

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6 August 2021 14:13

Tether-Linked Banker Faces Trial in February 2022

Reginald “Reggie” Fowler will appear in court in mid-February next year, according to court documents filed on Wednesday.  In 2019, Fowler was accused of bank fraud and [...]

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6 August 2021 10:57

Crypto Industry Mobilizes to Stop Controversial Tax Plan

The crypto community is pushing back against the recent crypto tax amendment that could have disastrous effects on the burgeoning industry, according to a new petition published [...]

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6 August 2021 10:20

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