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This New Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Resembles a BlackBerry

Canadian crypto hardware manufacturer Coinkite has designed a bitcoin hardware wallet reminiscent of an old-school BlackBerry phone straight out of the 2000s. CoinDesk Editor at Large Christie Harkin breaks down the details of the soon-to-be-released device dubbed Coldcard Q1.

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Policy

Canada Close to Tightening Rules for Crypto Exchanges: Sources

The changes will ensure it’s simply too expensive to do business in Canada, said one person familiar with the plans.

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Finance

Crypto Exchange Binance Introduces Tool for Calculating Taxes on Transactions

The tool, initially available to users in Canada and France, supports reporting of up to 100,000 transactions.

Sitio web de Binance. (Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Trading Firm Cumberland Can Trade Crypto With Canadian Dollars

The move comes one week after Cumberland inked a deal with Canada-based crypto platform BitBuy to boost liquidity on that exchange.

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Markets

Bank of Canada Signals Pause to Rate Hike Cycle

Bitcoin is mostly ignoring the news, but it's a potentially bullish sign.

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Finance

CEO of Canadian Utility That Proposed Banning New Power to Crypto Miners Exits

Hydro-Québec CEO Sophie Brochu will officially step down in April after three years leading the company.

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Finance

Canadian Crypto Exchanges Coinsquare, WonderFi in Advanced Talks to Merge: Bloomberg

The combination would create the country’s largest cryptocurrency exchange.

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Finance

Hive Earned Equivalent of 184 BTC From Curtailing Its Power Use in December

The miner has also installed the first Buzzminers, computers it designed using Intel's new bitcoin mining chip.

Crypto mining stocks have lost roughly half of their value in the past month. (Sandali Handagama for CoinDesk)

Policy

British Columbia Imposes 18-Month Moratorium on New Crypto Mining Operations

This is the third Canadian province to limit the industry's growth as it looks to preserve capacity for communities.

Vancouver, British Columbia (Alejandro Luengo/Unsplash, edited by CoinDesk)

Policy

Bitcoin Addresses Tied to Defunct Canadian Crypto Exchange QuadrigaCX Wake Up

More than 100 BTC tied to QuadrigaCX moved out of cold storage wallets over the weekend. Quadriga’s bankruptcy trustee said three years ago it did not control those wallets at the time.

Gerald Cotten, founder and former CEO of QuadrigaCX. (Original image by Trevor Jones)