SpaceX owns BTC, daily Dogecoin volume surged in Q2, Grayscale eyeing ETF: Hodler’s Digest, July 18–24

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week SpaceX owns Bitcoin, Elon Musk and Nic Carter believe BTC is becoming greenerElon Musk, Dogecoin (DOGE) proponent …

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US senators tell athletes to avoid digital yuan, Chinese exchange volumes rebound … and more – Cointelegraph Magazine

This weekly roundup of news from Mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong attempts to curate the industry’s most important news, including influential projects, changes in the regulatory landscape, and enterprise blockchain integrations.  Olympic battleAfter months of writing about the relentless actions of the Chinese government, this week we lead with a story from the US Government. On July 19, three US …

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SEC delays another ETF decision, Binance news, and more sideways BTC price action: Hodler’s Digest, July 11–17

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week New data hints why Bitcoin price action has spent two months at $30KBitcoin (BTC) posted another week …

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DeFi can be halal but not DOGE? Decentralizing Islamic finance – Cointelegraph Magazine

While Islamic scholars have long wrestled with the question of whether cryptocurrency is halal, what if it’s really fiat that isn’t permissible?Islam has strict rules around finance, and it historically defines currency as commodities with intrinsic value — gold, silver, or salt, among others. Waseem Mamlouk, from the DeFi platform Nimbus, argues that government-issued fiat currencies do not have any …

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Binance news, Circle plans to go public, and bullish crypto comments: Hodler’s Digest, July 4–10

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week US financial regulator FinCEN hires its first-ever chief digital currency adviserThe United States Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, …

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Is this the most annoying — or valuable — man in DeFi? Chris Blec – Cointelegraph Magazine

Even Chris Blec’s biggest supporters acknowledge he can be as subtle as a sledgehammer when he’s pushing for transparency from DeFi projects on Twitter.The founder of DeFi Watch puts noses out of joint across the industry — whether he’s hammering Polygon for putting billions in the hands of two developers with admin keys or criticizing Rari Capital for being run …

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‘Make or break’ for Bitcoin, Binance under pressure, Strike attacks Coinbase

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week Bitcoin mining difficulty just fell by a record 28% — but will this help prices recover?Bitcoin has …

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Bringing contemporary pop art to an NFT metaverse – Cointelegraph Magazine

The realm of metaverses is growing, with gaming, nonfungible tokens and contemporary performance art all contributing to create interactive and immersive digital-only ecosystems. “Welcome to Lobsteropolis District of Lobster Land” is the welcome notice that greets netizens upon entering Lobsteropolis city.Existing within the blockchain-based virtual world Decentraland, Lobsteropolis is a digital-only city based on British contemporary artist Philip Colbert’s Lobster …

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John McAfee tributes, El Salvador’s bold plans, altcoin fears

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This Week Remembering John McAfee: Computer programmer and crypto evangelist dead at 75John McAfee was found dead in his …

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