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The Daily: Rethinking Bitcoin’s Market Cap, ICOs Printing Money

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Welcome to a new week crammed with new ways of thinking about Bitcoin and its fellow cryptocurrencies. To kick things off, today’s edition of The Daily details three big-hitting topics: Is it time to find a more accurate metric than market cap for measuring cryptocurrencies? Why are venture capital funds so enamored with stablecoins right … Read more

If You Can’t Beat Them, Join Them – Bitcoin Is Hiring Regulators

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While everyone is looking for an indication that institutional money is about to flood into bitcoin and revive the market, we just got another conformation that crypto has indeed entered the big leagues. Companies in the industry are now putting former regulators on their payroll, as is common for Wall Street mega banks, government-supported telecom … Read more

Bitcoin in Brief Tuesday: New Patents, Research Centers and a $300M Fund

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While short term investors and speculators might not be in the best of shape right now, the long term development of the ecosystem is still advancing on pace. Companies and institutions are continuing to invest time and money for furthering cryptocurrency research as can be seen by the stories featured in today’s edition of Bitcoin … Read more

Decentralized Cryptocurrency Exchanges Are Finally Seeing Large Volumes, Led by IDEX

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Despite skepticism from cryptocurrency traders and Ethereum users, decentralized digital asset exchanges are experiencing a rapid growth rate in terms of volume, led by IDEX, the most widely utilized decentralized application (DApp) on the Ethereum protocol. IDEX Overtakes CryptoKitties Throughout the past eight months, CryptoKitties, the Ethereum-based digital collectibles platform that enables users to purchase, … Read more