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Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 22, 2020
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Updated May 2, 2022, 3:52 p.m. Published Jan 22, 2020, 4:50 p.m.

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Today's crypto news roundup:
- Bitcoin price appears trapped in a range between roughly $8,500 and $8,800,
- Vodafone is the latest big partner to redirect efforts away from Facebook's proposed Libra project.
- The Blockchain Association files a brief in support of embattled Telegram as it faces off against the SEC.
- More allegations of fraud and enforcement action from the SEC, this time focused on Opporty International.
- Square is building a new set of solutions to make it easier to integrate bitcoin and lightning network payments.
- Taiwanese startup Numbers took an investment from Binance.
- Big Tech and Big Finance join with Hyperledger to form the "Hyperledger Climate Action and Accounting Special Interest Group."
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