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Why Ethereum's Privacy Matters and What's Being Built to Support It

With the goal of boosting adoption, these four projects are building tools that advance privacy on ethereum.

(CoinDesk archives)

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Staking Isn't Just a Way to Earn Crypto Money – And It Shouldn't Be

Staking is getting attention for all the wrong reasons, and it’s time to re-examine its role, argues Decred's Jake Yocom-Piatt.

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Facebook's Cryptocurrency Wants to Take on Banks, Not Bitcoin

If bitcoin doesn't need to worry about competition from Facebook. Who does? You've guessed it, the banks.

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Libra White Paper Shows How Facebook Borrowed From Bitcoin and Ethereum

Cryptocurrency, at scale. That's Facebook's vision as laid out in the long-awaited, just-released Libra white paper.

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Facebook Unveils Libra Cryptocurrency, Targeting 1.7 Billion Unbanked

Facebook's newly unveiled Libra blockchain is tackling remittances at first, but it could have a much broader impact.

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Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency: A Technical Deep Dive

Technical details of Facebook's Libra blockchain were published Tuesday in a white paper by the Libra Foundation. Here's what stands out.

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Stonewalled by FINRA, Up to 40 Crypto Securities Wait in Limbo for Launch

Wall Street watchdog FINRA has sat for as long as 12 months on roughly 40 broker-dealer applications by blockchain startups.

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Crypto's Connection to the Hong Kong Protests

An effort to change extradition laws in Hong Kong has sparked protests – and questions about digital privacy and the right to transact.

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Justin Sun's Crypto Lunch with Warren Buffett Is Genius Marketing at Work

Justin Sun’s upcoming lunch with Warren Buffett is a genius marketing play that can only help the cryptocurrency sector, writes Noelle Acheson.

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It's FATF's Way or the Highway for Crypto Exchanges. That's a Big Mistake

The crypto industry can fight money launderers effectively, but not the way FATF wants it to, a CEX.IO compliance officer writes.

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