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Markets

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Near $9,600 as Gold Hits High, Uniswap Liquidity Over $100M

Bitcoin is up for the week, gold gets a new high and DeFi keeps growing.

Source: CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index

Markets

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Fails to Stay Above $9,400 While Dai Supply Skyrockets

Low volume and volatility continue to plague the bitcoin market but the supply of dai soars.

Source: CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index

Markets

Newly Discovered Botnet Infected Up to 5,000 Computers With a Monero Miner

Cisco researchers estimate the botnet may have earned its owner $5,000 worth of monero since it started operation four months ago.

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Markets

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Clings to $9,200 While Ethereum Transactions Soar

Bitcoin trades flat in July, leading investors to mull other cryptocurrencies.

Source: CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index

Markets

Argentine Telecom Hackers Demanded $7.5M in Crypto as Ransom

Argentina’s leading telecommunications company fought off a cyberattack on Saturday where hackers demanded a hefty ransom in monero to release keys that would allow infected computers back into the system.

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Markets

Introducing the CoinDesk 20: The Assets That Matter Most in Crypto

Based on "real volume" from eight reputable exchanges, these 20 digital assets attract most of the sector's legitimate trading activity.

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Markets

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Briefly Breaks Below $9K, but Markets Remain Comatose

Bitcoin briefly broke below $9,000 on Thursday, but the markets remain quiet.

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Technology

Monero-for-Bail Project Sees Increased Demand During Protests

An initiative that mines the privacy coin monero, donating cash for bail money, has seen an uptick in users since the protests started in Minnesota.

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Technology

Developers of Ethereum Privacy Tool Tornado Cash Smash Their Keys

Developers of ether mixer Tornado Cash have destroyed their admin keys, turning the privacy tool into permissionless code.

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Technology

HTC Is Bringing Cryptocurrency Mining to Its Exodus Blockchain Phone

The Taiwan-based tech giant is to allow users of its Exodus 1S to mine monero, but it isn't going to make them rich.

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