Paddy Baker

Paddy Baker is a London-based cryptocurrency reporter. He was previously senior journalist at Crypto Briefing.

Paddy holds positions in BTC and ETH, as well as smaller amounts of LTC, ZIL, NEO, BNB and BSV.

Paddy Baker

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Markets

Vitalik Buterin: Blockchains Will Discourage Monopolies, Not Create Them

Antitrust agencies should reconsider blockchains as they can help them fight monopolies, Vitalik Buterin and Thibault Schrepel argue in a new paper.

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin was one of the first to sign an NFT on the platform.

Finance

Andreessen Horowitz Forecasts Fourth Crypto Bull Cycle

a16z says high quality projects in the past cycle (some being startups in its own portfolio) will drive growth in the next.

Marc Andreessen, a16z co-founder (Joi/Wikimedia Commons)

Markets

Accel, Coinbase Join $17M Funding Rounds for Institutional Crypto Trading Firm FalconX

The crypto trading firm pitched investors on the basis that its best trade execution platform offers institutions a solution to the wash trading that is rife in the space.

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Markets

Central Banks Mull Creating a CBDC, but Not on a Blockchain: Survey

Forty-six central banks would consider a broader form of distributed ledger technology for a CBDC but aren't crazy about putting it on a blockchain.

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Markets

CZ's Twitter Feed Swayed New CoinMarketCap Ranking That Put Binance on Top

CoinMarketCap's new exchange ranking gives its new owner Binance a perfect score. The site's CEO said the decision was in part based on the Twitter "presence and feed" of the exchange's CEO.

Binance ex-CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao (CoinDesk archives)

Tech

Visa Patent Filing Would Allow Central Banks to Mint Digital Fiat Currencies Using Blockchain

The filing details a way for fiat currencies, like the U.S. dollar, to be turned into a central bank digital currency.

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Markets

Copper Claims New Tool Removes Credit Risk From Crypto Trading

Copper's ClearLoop tool lets two parties finalize all details of a trade before transferring the seller's assets to the buyer's possession, rather than force the seller to store these assets on an exchange.

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Markets

Binance Quashes Upbit Hackers' Attempt to Launder Stolen Funds

Binance managed to see an alert and freeze the stolen funds in little more than half an hour.

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Markets

Less Than 1% of FinCEN's Suspicious Activity Reports Since 2013 Mentioned Crypto

More than 70,000 crypto-related SARs had been filed with FinCEN since 2013, director Kenneth Blanco said Wednesday.

FinCEN director Kenneth Blanco

Markets

Exchange Run by Ex-Morgan Stanley Team Drops Trading Fees for Subscription Model

The subscription model offers smaller frequent traders a flat fee monthly, something normally only major clients get.

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