Brad Garlinghouse Sidesteps Question on XRP Exchange Payments
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse has answered what he says are five “key” questions surrounding the lawsuit recently brought against the company by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), although he failed to address the suggestion that Ripple paid exchanges to list XRP. Garlinghouse took to Twitter to tackle the questions, ranging from the chances of settling with the SEC to the current level of investor faith, but dodged the question of Ripple paying to get XRP listed, which was raised in the SEC filing.
A lot of people store their Bitcoin in different ways, but just how far would you go to keep your Bitcoin safe while you sleep at night? Some people like to live life on the edge, storing their Bitcoin fortune on an exchange, while others use an air gapped computer.
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An NFT by renowned digital artist Beeple has smashed the sale record for a single piece when it re-sold for $6.6 million yesterday on NFT marketplace Nifty Gateway. CROSSROAD #1/1, a short animation centered around Donald Trump’s defeat at the 2020 election, was sold by its previous owner who bought it for $66,666.60 in November last year, marking a handsome 100x return for the original buyer. Beeple has been a fixture in the digital art world for some time, and his reputation has spilled into the NFT market and helped it establish itself as a mainstream part of the blockchain ecosystem.
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In today’s episode, Mark and Alex discuss John McAfee’s arrest, what the future holds for BitMEX after their three founders stepped aside, and what the FCA’s banning of crypto CFDs in the UK means in the long run.
Two weeks ago the UK’s financial watchdog the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) enforced a ban on cryptocurrency derivatives to British retail consumers, citing concerns over the volatility of cryptocurrencies and inadequate understanding of them among their reasons for doing so. However, with the potential for life changing amounts of money to be made for those that do it right, why are authorities like the FCA so keen to ban access to cryptocurrency outright rather than help educate those who want to learn?
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Over-the-counter (OTC) Bitcoin deals are designed to be conducted almost in secret, ensuring that the deal doesn’t impact the market and the deals are done discreetly, out of the gaze of third parties and competitors. However, there may be a way to track Bitcoin OTC deals according to Crypto Quant CEO Ki Young Ju. Ju posted a Twitter thread that outlined three ways in which OTC deals can be tracked, using exchange outflows and transaction materics, among other statistics.
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PAID network has released its replacement token less than a week after the smart contract was exploited and $3 million worth of tokens minted and sold. The Polkadot project has moved quickly to assure supporters that the platform itself remains fully functioning and that PAID v2 tokens will be coming to all those who were holding tokens at the time of the hack. Recipients have also been rewarded with a guaranteed allocation in an upcoming IDO and a 10% bonus if they hold the new tokens for seven weeks.
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Cryptocurrency podcasts are a dime a dozen, but there are very few out there that have stood the test of time and continue to put out quality content. We’ve picked four essential crypto podcasts that we think should be definite listens as you strive to avoid other people on your daily run or dog walk.
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PAID tokenholders who bought their tokens from the Gate.io exchange still have not received the replacement tokens, three weeks after the platform was hacked. Those who were holding PAID tokens on Gate.io suffered the same fate as other holders when the platform was breached earlier this month, but whereas tokenholders on decentralized exchanges received their PAID v2 tokens weeks ago, Gate.io holders are still waiting.
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BNY Mellon has released a report that has highlighted shifts in sentiment toward Bitcoin since the cryptocurrency’s creation and has suggested that it is on the way to matching silver and gold in terms of sentiment. In Blending Art & Science: Bitcoin Valuations, the BNY Mellon researchers attempted to “consider the value of alternative currencies such as Bitcoin” by looking at factors such as the mining process and its changing narrative over time, noting how it is now being compared to the function of precious metals.
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