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Threats Fly As Fight Over Siacoin's Crypto Mining 'Kill Switch' Intensifies

A cryptocurrency community is devolving into infighting amid a controversy that has ensnared its creator and the founder of two of its key startups.

By Rachel-Rose O'LearyAug 21, 2018

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Precious metals crash, with silver plunging 35%, gold falling 12% while bitcoin holds at $83,000

Crypto bulls who have theorized that bitcoin can't begin rising until money flows out of red-hot precious metals are about to find out if they were correct.

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Visa and Mastercard aren’t buying the stablecoin hype for everyday payments

Despite crypto’s promise of faster, cheaper transactions, the payments giants aren’t buying the stablecoin pitch, at least not in developed markets.

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Brian Armstrong was snubbed by top executives from the biggest U.S. banks in Davos

Stablecoin rewards and the Clarity Act widen the divide between crypto and TradFi, according to people who spoke with the WSJ.

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Bitcoin is the 'newest, coolest software': Inside Kevin Warsh’s complicated crypto history

The former Federal Reserve governor has invested in crypto firms, criticized bitcoin’s role as money and argued for a U.S. digital dollar.

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