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Craig Wright Assets Frozen by UK Judge to Prevent Him Evading Court Costs

Judge James Mellor found earlier this month that Wright was not, as he'd claimed, Bitcoin inventor Satoshi Nakomoto

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SBF Is Going to Prison for 25 Years

Sam Bankman-Fried is going to prison. He won't be spending time in a maximum security facility, and he'll be placed as close to his family in the San Francisco Bay Area as possible, but he's going to ...

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Dogwifhat Becomes Third-Largest Meme Coin as Bitcoin Clings to $70K

WIF touched the $4 mark early Friday before retreating as the meme coin sector showed the most volatility in a little-changed market.

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Ethena’s Prelaunch Futures Surge 22% as ENA Token Is Set To Go Live Next Week

The price surge implied that the token could debut with a market cap of over $500 million.

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Call of Duty Cheaters Allegedly Lose Their Bitcoin as Hackers Target Gamers With Malware

The malware has already impacted hundreds of thousands of players and the numbers are still growing, as per malware market informer @vxunderground.

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Ethereum Hit by 'Blobscriptions' in First Stress Test of Blockchain's New Data System

Ethereum fees for "blobs" – the blockchain's new dedicated class of cheaper data storage – spiked Wednesday after a project called Ethscriptions created a new way of inscribing data, known as “blobscr...

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Sam Bankman-Fried Deserves a Life After Prison

He did incalculable harm, but arguing for a sentence longer than 25 years is unfair to the man and the industry he once represented.

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OKX’s Global Compliance Chief Left After Six Months

Patrick Donegan, whose LinkedIn profile says he managed a team of 300 people around the world, was at OKX from August 2023 to January 2024.

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Crypto for Advisors: Beyond Bitcoin, Crypto Indices

Just like equities have the S&P 500 and NASDAQ 100, we now see the emergence of cryptocurrency and digital asset indices.

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MicroStrategy Trades at an Unjustifiable Premium to Bitcoin: Kerrisdale Capital

The bitcoin price implied by MicroStrategy’s share price is $177K, 2 ½ times the spot price of the cryptocurrency, the report said.

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Dogecoin Bets Jump to $2B as Price Reaches Highest Level Since 2021

DOGE prices tend to move on speculation about the token's use on X, the Elon Musk-owned social media giant.

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LIVE: Sam Bankman-Fried Returns to New York Courthouse for Sentencing in FTX Fraud Case

SBF returned to a federal courthouse in Manhattan for sentencing on Thursday.

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First Mover Americas: Tokenized Treasury Notes Surpass $1B

The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for March 28, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.

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Ethereum's Rising Validator Count Is Causing Concerns, Fidelity Digital Assets Says

Future roadmap upgrades for the network will become more difficult with a large validator set, the report said.

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ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF Hits $200M Daily Inflows for First Time

The bitcoin ETF market registered net inflows of $243.4 million as BTC teased a return north of $72,000 a week after sinking below $63,000.

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Over $1B in U.S. Treasury Notes Has Been Tokenized on Public Blockchains

Tokenized Treasuries are digital representations of U.S. government bonds that can be traded as digital tokens on the blockchain.

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Recapping FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial

Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted last year. Here's how his trial came together.

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Fewer Than 30% of Jurisdictions Globally Have Started Regulating Crypto: FATF Chief

Globally, less than 30% of jurisdictions have started regulating the crypto sector as of June 2023, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) President T. Raja Kumar told CoinDesk in an interview from Si...

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