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Minnesota Official Alarms Privacy Advocates With Contact Tracing Comments
At a press conference Sunday Minnesota Department of Public Safety commissioner John Harrington compared the methods police were using to identify protestors to those used to track COVID-19 cases. We’ve “begun ... -
No, Marvin Ammori, CoinDesk Is Not Trying to Extort You
Marvin Ammori, Head of Policy at Protocol Labs, is the latest to sit for CoinDesk Confessional. This short survey, based on the storied Proust Questionnaire, is designed to get to ... -
Iranian Lawmaker Says Bitcoin Should Be Central Bank’s Turf
An Iranian lawmaker wants his country’s central bank to take bitcoin seriously. Representative Mohammad Hossein Farhangi (Tabriz), speaking Tuesday before the nation’s parliament, called on the Governor of the Central ... -
Caitlin Long’s Avanti Raises $5M, Submits Wyoming Bank Charter Application Draft
Crypto bank Avanti now has the backing of several popular investors in crypto. The bank raised $5 million in an angel round and closed on a subscription to issue an ... -
‘Sell in May’ Wall Street Adage Doesn’t Apply to Bitcoin, Data Suggests
The old Wall Street maxim “sell in May and go away” is detrimental to bitcoin investors, market data from Messari suggests. The largest cryptocurrency generated positive returns during eight of ... -
Chinese Chip Maker With a Hand in Crypto Mining Plans $2.8B IPO
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), one of the largest computing chip producers in China, plans to raise $2.8 billion through an initial public offering on the Sci-Tech Board of the ... -
Market Wrap: As Bitcoin Steadies, Oil’s Turmoil Continues
Both bitcoin and oil were relatively calm Monday, but that when it comes to volatility over the past couple of months, it’s crude, the backbone of global industrialization, that’s seeing ... -
Meet the US Senate Candidate Who’s Invested in Bitcoin Since 2013
Cynthia Lummis was the U.S. Representative for Wyoming from 2009 to 2017, and is now running for U.S. Senate. A budget hawk and founding member of the Freedom Caucus, she ... -
Crypto Long & Short: The Emergence of Prime Brokers Adds Resilience but Also Risk
There are many types of hockey-stick evolutions in new industries. Startups dream of the lying-on-its-back L shape for their sales growth. Entrepreneurs chase the “escape velocity” funding momentum. And a ... -
‘We Need 30 Different Words for Censorship,’ Feat. Andreas M. Antonopoulos
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Recently the hosts of the Let’s Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss state-sponsored propaganda, corporate censorship and how cryptocurrency or decentralization ...
