CryptoWeek
The crypto-news of the week, updated every Friday evening.
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Tech - Taproot
- Taproot, Bitcoin’s Long-Anticipated Upgrade, Has Activated - CoinDesk
- Newsletter #175 - Bitcoin Optech
- Bitcoin Node Taproot Support
- Bitcoin Taproot Explainer - Bitcoin Magazine
Markets
- BTC Price Flat After Taproot, Lightning Network Continues to Grow: Markets Wrap - Blockworks
- A major upgrade to bitcoin just activated — here’s what investors should know - CNBC
- Bitcoin Price Briefly Drops Below $60,000 as Strong Dollar Weighs on Crypto - WSJ
- 3 Reasons to Buy the Bitcoin Crash - Nasdaq
- Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly - CoinShares
- Crypto fever: the pressure grows on wealth managers - Financial Times
- How Crypto Wallets Fit Into Investors’ Pockets - WSJ
- CommBank CEO sees “bigger risks in not participating” in crypto - Fortune
Ecosystem - VC and funding
- KKR Plans to Lead Investment in Crypto Firm Anchorage - The Information
- Digital Currency Group Raises New $600 Million Credit Facility - Business Wire
- Gemini Raises $400M to Bring Valuation Over $7B - Blockworks
- Gemini Raises $400 Million To Build A Metaverse Outside Facebook’s Walled Garden - Forbes
Ecosystem - NFT and Metaverse
- Google searches for NFTs spike to record highs - Cointelegraph
- How NFL Virtual Commemorative Tickets Work - Ticketmaster Blog
- Galaxy Digital and TIME Partner Combining the Power of Media and the Metaverse - Newswire
- TIME Magazine to Hold ETH on Balance Sheet as Part of Galaxy Digital Metaverse Deal - CoinDesk
- NFT Marketplace OpenSea Offered $10 Billion Valuation — The Information
Ecosystem - Ethereum
- Sotheby’s to Allow Live Bidding in Ether for Works by Banksy - CoinDesk
- Sotheby’s to Hold Live Bids for Banksy’s Artworks in Ether Cryptocurrency - Barron’s
- Ethereum Layer 2 developer StarkWare raises $50 million, now valued at $2 billion - The Block Crypto
- ConsenSys Plots Massive Expansion Following $200M Fundraising - CoinDesk
- DeFi - FRNT Financial: 24 Hours In Crypto
Ecosystem - Binance
- Binance US to Close Pre-IPO Funding in 1-2 Months, Founder CZ Says - CoinDesk
- $76 Billion a Day: How Binance Became the World’s Biggest Crypto Exchange - WSJ
Regulation
- Fidelity International: It’s a Problem that Regulators Around the World Look at Crypto Differently - Blockworks
- Crypto exchanges’ multiple roles raise conflict worries - Financial Times
- Crypto trading puts pressure on bourses to open all hours - Financial Times
- USDC issuer Circle supports proposal to regulate stablecoin issuers as banks - Cointelegraph
- Crypto Could Destabilize Nations, Undermine Dollar’s Reserve Currency Status, Hillary Clinton Says - CoinDesk
- ECB Sounds Alarm Over Linkages Between Stablecoins and Conventional Financial Markets - CoinDesk
- ECB warns of ‘exuberance’ in housing, junk bonds and crypto assets - Financial Times
- Financial Stability Review, November 2021 - ECB
Regulation - CBDC
- Designing a digital euro for the retail payments landscape of tomorrow - ECB
- Executive Board member Fabio Panetta on the importance of keeping cash available alongside a possible digital euro - ECB on Twitter
- Central Bank Digital Currencies Will Be Implemented Within Five Years - Blockworks
Regulation - US Department of Justice
- The US Justice Department is selling $56 million worth of crypto seized in massive bitcoin investment fraud case - Markets Insider
- U.S. selling seized cryptocurrency in BitConnect fraud case - CNBC
- $56 Million in Seized Cryptocurrency Being Sold as First Step to Compensate Victims of BitConnect Fraud Scheme - The US Department of Justice
Regulation - Infrastructure Bill
- President Biden Signs Infrastructure Bill Containing Crypto Broker Reporting Requirement Into Law - CoinDesk
- US lawmakers introduce bill to ‘fix’ crypto reporting requirement from infrastructure law - Cointelegraph
- Two Things Crypto Investors Should Know About the Infrastructure Bill President Biden Signed This Week - Time
Regulation - India
- India could bar transactions in crypto, permit holding as assets - paper - Reuters
- India may create obstacles to crypto trading and holding - Reuters
- India to Ban Crypto as Payment Method but Regulate as Asset - CoinDesk
- Crypto map: PM’s meet calls for ‘progressive’ steps, caution over hype - The Indian Express
- Indian Central Bank Governor Says Blockchain Technology Can Thrive Without Cryptocurrencies - CoinDesk
- Indian Central Bank May Pilot Test CBDC in 2022: Report - CoinDesk
- India’s Modi Asks Democracies to Cooperate on Crypto - CoinDesk
Ecosystem - Mining
- Bitcoin falls as China takes aim once again at ‘extremely harmful’ crypto mining - CNN
- China’s NDRC to Consider Punitive Electricity Prices for Crypto Mines - CoinDesk
- More crackdowns aimed at currency mining underway - China Daily
- BIT Mining’s Q4 Revenue to Fall Due to Its Mining Pool Exiting China - CoinDesk
- Environmentalists sound alarm at US politicians’ embrace of cryptocurrency - The Guardian
- Europe must ban Bitcoin mining to hit the 1.5C Paris climate goal, say Swedish regulators - Euronews
- Crypto boom strains Kazakhstan’s coal-powered energy grid - Reuters
- Bitfarms Acquires 24 Megawatts of Hydro Power in the U.S. - Bitfarms
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