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Blockchain Bites: China's BSN Integrations and Satoshi's Newfound Wealth

Ethereum Classic supporters are ditching the project, top exchanges are developing "Travel Rule" solutions and, FYI, YFI might have a backdoor.

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Blockchain Bites: PayPal, Mastercard Inch Closer to Crypto

Also, a longer look at crypto's reaction to GPT-3, "the biggest thing since bitcoin."

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Blockchain Bites: Binance's Bitcoin Mining, ConsenSys' Legal Trouble and Why Politicians Blame Twitter, Not Bitcoin

Binance will consolidate its bitcoin mining, ConsenSys is accused of intellectual property theft and Wonder Woman's illustrator will sell art on Ethereum.

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Blockchain Bites: Twitter Hack Fallout, A New Way to 'Yield Farm' and a Hurricane-Proof CBDC

What the Twitter hack means for Bitcoin, why stablecoins are on the rise in Hong Kong and a new way to farm yield using NFTs on Ethereum.

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Blockchain Bites: BitLicense Feedback, Digital Yuan Trial and How US Bills Could Threaten Privacy

A mega food retailer may trial the digital yuan, an a16z alum is launching a VC firm focused on distributed tech and Ethereum's new client is "basically ready."

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Blockchain Bites: Chainlink's Interest, Ethereum's 'ReGenesis' and Crypto Taxes

Retail interest in Chainlink is booming, Ethereum may follow Cosmos on its path to upgrade and the U.K. central bank is mulling a CBDC.

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Blockchain Bites: It's Never Been Harder to Mine Bitcoin

Bitcoin's mining difficulty is at a record high, Singapore's CBDC may find commercial use and Chinese companies are going in on Filecoin.

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Blockchain Bites: Coinbase's Untraditional Investor Day and the Ethereum-EOS Arms Race in Latin America

Coinbase will host its first investor day while a protocol arms race unfolds in Latin America.

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Blockchain Bites: Didi to Trial the Digital Yuan and a Look at Chainlink's Gains

The "Chinese Uber" will join the nations CBDC project, TikTok threw Dogecoin a treat and Nexo tapped Chainlink.

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Blockchain Bites: Crypto's Bailout Millions, Brazil's Binance Ban, Lightning's Bug

Crypto firms received at least $30 million in government-backed loans, Brazil bans Binance's derivatives trading and Mercedes Benz' parent tests blockchain.

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