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David Schwartz, chief technology officer at San Francisco-based firm Ripple, recently addressed XRP price manipulation accusations on his X social media profile. Marcelo Wolfarth, a member of the cryptocurrency community, recently asked Schwartz to “stop suppressing the price of XRP.” The Ripple CTO clarified that he himself is an XRP holder. Since he has skin in the game, it makes little sense for him to artificially suppress the price of the controversial token. In fact, if Schwartz actually could push the price of the Ripple-affiliated cryptocurrency higher, he would certainly do it. “I hold XRP. If there was some way…

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On October 25th, Binance and OKX exchanges announced the launch of GOAT futures trading, causing a price surge that fueled market excitement. Notably, MEXC was the first exchange to offer GOAT spot trading on October 13th, followed by futures trading on October 17th, complete with a series of futures trading events to drive user engagement and rewards. According to MEXC market data, on October 24th, the market capitalization of GOAT token on the Solana chain surpassed $800 million, with the price reaching 0.797 USDT at the time of writing and a historical peak of 0.90218 USDT. The 24-hour global trading…

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The Proof of Workforce Foundation (POWF) and Careers In Government Inc. (CIG) have launched a strategic partnership aimed at integrating Bitcoin into public sector employment practices, according to a press release sent to Bitcoin Magazine. This collaboration seeks to enhance financial security, attract talent, and foster innovation within the government workforce through Bitcoin-based compensation and benefits. The partnership’s focus is on developing innovative strategies for including Bitcoin in salary options and incentive structures for public sector employees. By testing these strategies, the initiative aims to create a scalable model that can be adopted by government employers nationwide. This effort is…

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Janction’s Layer2 chain will launch soon, with hints of a potential collaboration with Sony. Janction aims to be Japan’s biggest blockchain, integrating Layer 1 and Layer 2 chains seamlessly. Hara, the CFO of Jasmy and CEO of Janction, has announced ambitious ambitions for the introduction of their Janction open-source Layer2 chain, indicating that it will be available shortly. Bernd Janction, the CTO, confirmed that the development would be completed within a month. This news marks a huge step forward for the Japanese blockchain ecosystem, as the initiative promises to introduce significant breakthroughs in blockchain technology. Janction CEO原田、Janctionオープンソース Layer2チェーンをできるだけ早くリリース予定。Bernd Janction CTO、1…

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The historic cryptocurrency exchange Bistamp has just obtained the MiFID license and, together with Robinhood, will start offering crypto derivatives in Europe. Robinhood, which acquired Bitstamp in June for 200 million dollars, will leverage the license to create its own futures and options market on crypto assets. Robinhood and the exchange Bitstamp obtain the MiFID license: crypto derivatives coming to Europe Robinhood considers expansion in Europe after partner’s license Bitstamp: the longest-running crypto exchange in the world Robinhood and the exchange Bitstamp obtain the MiFID license: crypto derivatives coming to Europe According to what was reported by the Financial News,…

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Ever since meme coins experienced a period of domination in the cryptocurrency market during spring, 2024 has been seen as the year of these volatile, joke-based assets. This quirk of the year has been exemplified time and time again by the success of many human traders, but artificial intelligence (AI)-powered trading bots have also enjoyed significant success. Terminal_of_fun is the most recent of these automated investors to have been identified as a major meme coin winner, per the data published by the analytics platform Lookonchain. What this 100% win rate crypto bot is trading In fact, terminal_of_fun is a trading…

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Convex Finance ($CVX) has popped out as ‘Coin of the Day’ with a significant spike of 9.3% during the last 24 hours. Because of the bullish performance of $CVX, many crypto investors are eyeing it and predicting strong market performance and community engagement. COIN OF THE DAY$CVX #ConvexFinance pic.twitter.com/uIEU8XZnGE — PHOENIX – Crypto News & Analytics (@pnxgrp) September 21, 2024 Convex Finance, altcoin ranked 43 in the crypto market, dominating the crypto market in terms of market performance and social activity as compared to other completive cryptocurrencies. $CVX is trading at $2.26 with a 24-hour trading volume of $16,010,176, up…

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OKX, one of the biggest crypto exchanges globally, has rolled out “Smart Sync” which is a new AI-powered feature in its Spot Copy Trading tool. It enables users to easily mirror lead traders’ entire portfolios. “Smart Sync” comes into play with one touch and automatically copies top traders’ position ratios and replicates their portfolios. This feature eliminates all the hard work needed for manually copying individual trades. It can come in handy when the crypto market is reflecting “Greed” sentiment among the traders. OKX expands copy trading Following its success in perpetual futures, OKX now offers copy trading across spot…

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Michael Saylor, the co-creator and executive chairman of MicroStrategy business software-making giant, visited thr CNBC studio to elaborate on how Bitcoin has helped the company to reach major milestones and surpass other companies in the S&P 500 index. He shared his take on several big Bitcoin-related questions with the CNBC Squawk Box hosts. I enjoyed the opportunity to discuss #Bitcoin and strong, fast, smart money with @JoeSquawk, @BeckyQuick, and @AndrewRSorkin this morning,pic.twitter.com/BUXa2IZ8II — Michael Saylor⚡️ (@saylor) September 9, 2024 MicroStrategy beats all other companies in S&P with Bitcoin First off, Saylor reminded the hosts that since August 2020, MicroStrategy had…

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Billionaire investor Mark Cuban has dismissed the usefulness of the decentralized prediction market Polymarket when it comes to predicting the 2024 U.S. presidential election winner. “From all indications, most of the money coming into Polymarket is foreign money, so I don’t think it’s an indication of anything,” he said in an interview with CNBC Squawk Box. Polymarket’s odds give Donald Trump a 64.1% chance of defeating Vice President Kamala Harris, with the Democratic candidate sitting at 36.1% at the time of writing. Over $2.2 billion has been staked on the Polygon-based platform at the time of writing, with most of…

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