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Crypto 2020: One Step Up; Two Steps Back

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If 2020 taught us anything about cryptocurrencies, it’s that they’ve reached a tipping point. Or maybe that cryptocurrencies have yet to go mainstream beyond the headlines because fraud still lurks. Bitcoin, of course, exists as one of the most widely recognized cryptocurrencies.

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Bitcoin Daily: Hdac, CertiK Partner For Blockchain-Powered IoT; Tezos Expected To Settle Securities Lawsuit With $25M Settlement

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Connie Ngo , CertiK’s marketing manager, told CoinDesk in an email that the companies agreed “it would make sense to formally partner with one another as a public promise of Hdac’s focus on security and a symbol of CertiK’s ability to support larger enterprise-level solutions such as Hdac’s.”

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Bitcoin Daily: Binance Acquires CoinMarketCap; SEC Seeks Comment On BSTX Rule Change Proposal

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Blockchain company Binance has acquired the CoinMarketCap cryptocurrency data tracking website, according to an announcement. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is lengthening its timeframe to approve or reject operations by a tZERO-affiliated security token exchange, per a release. In other news, the U.S.

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Today In Payments: $50B In Crypto Moved Out Of China; Uber Health To Deliver Meds

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In today’s top news, $50 billion worth of cryptocurrency was transferred out of China, and Uber Health and NimbleRx have teamed on prescription delivery. Report: $50B in Cryptocurrency Moved Out of China. Plus, Amazon has put some hiring on hold for its Alexa operation. The Main Street Rescue That Wasn’t (And Still Isn’t).

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SEC Charges Two Firms With ICO Violations

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Securities and Exchange Commission late last week settled charges with two companies it charged with offering digital tokens in a manner that ran afoul of rules. It also signals an increase in the SEC’s oversight of the cryptocurrency market. The two companies that settled with the SEC are CarrierEQ and Paragon Coin Inc.

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Federal Reserve’s Cunha on the State (and Timeframe) of Digital Dollars

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Earlier this month, as PYMNTS noted , the Federal Reserve said its Boston bank is working with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to explore the possibility of issuing digital currency. And there’ll be quite a bit of tinkering with the technology (especially the infrastructure) and the use cases to get there.

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Amid The Losses, Taking Stock Of The Crypto Crash

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To date as a group, the losses have mounted for all the cryptocurrencies out there – the ones that came to market and were snapped up and bought by speculators, and then sold. In this space just last month, we noted findings from Boston College that showed that 4,000 ICOs had raised $12 billion. Past is prologue, as the saying goes.