Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.

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Crypto Bank Silvergate Shares Plunge 46% After $8.1B Withdrawal in Q4 Prompts 200 Job Cuts

The company also said it is writing off its investment in former Facebook stablecoin project Diem.

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Defrost Finance Denies Rug Pull Allegations Amid $12M Exploit

The group says it’s retrieved all the funds after offering a bounty to the hacker.

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MicroStrategy Added 2,500 Bitcoins for $45M in Last 2 Months

The software company also sold a small amount of the cryptocurrency for the first time.

MicroStrategy Executive Director Michael Saylor speaks at the Bitcoin 2021 Convention (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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Crypto Exchange Kraken to End Japan Operations

The company will close shop in the country at the end of January.

Cityscape Tokyo, Japan (Ryo Yoshitake/Unsplash)

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Twitter Adds Crypto, Stock Prices in Search Results

The social media platform said it will refine the user experience and add more tickers in coming weeks.

Crypto prices added to Twitter (Twitter)

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DeFi Protocol Ankr Says Ex-Employee Caused $5M Exploit

The company is working with law enforcement to prosecute the attacker.

(Towfiqu Barbhuiya/Unsplash)

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Waves Blockchain Founder Asks Exchanges to Delist WAVES Token Derivative Trading

Growing concerns over the USDN stablecoin has sent the WAVES token down 40% over the past two weeks.

(Photoholgic/Unsplash)

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Encrypted Messaging Protocol Mask Network Acquires Mastodon Server Pawoo.net

Pawoo.net is the second-largest instance on Mastodon with 800,000 users.

(John Noonan/Unsplash)

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Grayscale Will Explore Returning Portion of Investor Capital if SEC Refuses Spot Bitcoin ETF

Grayscale sued the U.S. regulator in June after its latest spot bitcoin ETF application was denied.

Grayscale's Michael Sonnenshein speaks at Invest: NYC 2019 (CoinDesk)

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Fiscales de Estados Unidos acusarían a Binance y CZ por posible lavado de dinero

El Departamento de Justicia también evaluó la posibilidad de un posible acuerdo con los abogados de Binance, según un informe.

Changpeng Zhao, CEO de Binance. (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)