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Bitcoin Daily: Bitcoin Rises After Recent Crash; IRS Delivers New Rules For Crypto Investors

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Ransom is demanded in bitcoin, upon threat of releasing damaging information to family, friends, and co-workers. Because threat actors often get recipients’ emails from password breach lists, they sometimes include passwords to lend authenticity,” Hunter Johnson, Cofense Professional Services at Cofense, wrote in a blog post.

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Digital Currency Eyes Wholesale — Not Retail — Payments Down Under

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Thus, the RBA is positing the creation and administration of a digital offering that would track the Australian dollar, as well as ostensibly sidestep the volatility that has marked the likes of bitcoin and its brethren. As a] unit of account, people don’t post their prices in bitcoin, even [at] bitcoin conferences.

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NEW REPORT: How Banks Are Driving API-First Strategies

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New payment and financial technologies are quickly emerging from the FinTech community, all with the promise of expediting payments and reducing the distance between cross-border trading partners. Traditional banks are seeing new FinTech players become more competitive on several fronts, including lending.

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Why Australia’s Digital Coin Efforts Target Wholesale — Not Retail — Payments

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Thus, the RBA is positing the creation and administration of a digital offering that would track the Australian dollar, as well as ostensibly sidestep the volatility that has marked the likes of bitcoin and its brethren. As a] unit of account, people don’t post their prices in bitcoin, even [at] bitcoin conferences.

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The 2023 GonzoBanker Awards

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The Comeback Investment of the Year Award – Bitcoin (BTC). While a tech top-heavy S&P 500 is up 16% this year, Bitcoin is up a whopping 140% and people like Black Rock’s Larry Fink are now dubbing it a “lower volatility asset.” Word: Community banks don’t lend on $400 million office buildings in Manhattan and San Francisco.

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New Zealand Fintech – Companies to Watch

Jessica Ellerm

And while financial technology is still a nascent industry, no doubt this sector will be subject to a little more of our Kiwi ingenuity over the coming few years. Harmoney – peer to peer consumer lending. When it comes to p2p lending, New Zealand’s Harmoney leads the APAC region. I kid you not.

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Fintech Unicorn List Q2 2015: 46 Arrived + 37 Closing In

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Please note: Our list includes financial technology companies (either direct services or software) founded since 2000 and valued at $900 million or more. Bitcoin/Block. Without those additions, there would be 35 pure-play private fintech unicorns (or 29 if you used a strict $1 billion floor). Real estate. Insurance. Investing.

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