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Tech

Stacks Foundation, Brink to Fund Bitcoin Development Fellowship Using ‘Stacking’ Rewards

The organizations estimate they will raise $165,000 over one year.

Executive Director Brittany Laughlin of the Stacks Open Internet Foundation (Stacks)

Finance

Strike Users in US Can Now Get Paid in Bitcoin

Tested with professional athletes, the service is now widely available in 48 U.S. states.

Strike CEO Jack Mallers (Marie Uzcategui/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Markets

Bitcoin Mining After the China Ban: US Dominance Is Set to Continue

China has “missed the ball” as geopolitical certainty and access to cheap power and infrastructure will enable the U.S. to take more bitcoin mining market share.

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Tech

Are Cryptocurrencies Secure? Yes and No – Here’s Why

What explains the simultaneous security and vulnerability of digital assets, and what can advisors do to help their clients who may be at risk?

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Markets

How Should You Treat Crypto Compared With Other Assets in a Portfolio?

Is crypto an investment, a currency – or neither? The nuance around crypto is exactly why many investors and advisors are drawn to it in the first place – but also why it can be so confusing.

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Markets

Bitcoin Eases After Rejection at $58.5K, Support at $54K

A key technical indicator signals that upward momentum may be over.

Bitcoin's four-hour chart shows the technical indicator RSI flashing a bearish signal. (TradingView/CoinDesk)

Finance

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Recovering Faster Than Equities as Buyers Remain Active

By contrast, the S&P 500 is down about 4% from an all-time high in September.

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Finance

Estados Unidos capta el negocio de minería de bitcoin tras la restricción de China

Según el Centro de Finanzas Alternativas de Cambridge, la participación de China se ha reducido a cero.

Máquinas de minería de bitcoin (Shutterstock)

Videos

Coinbase Prime Now Supports Stacking for STX

Coinbase Prime, crypto exchange Coinbase's trading platform serving institutional investors, is now introducing a way to passively earn bitcoin using the stacking feature of STX, the token used by the bitcoin-focused Stacks ecosystem. Brittany Laughlin, executive director of The Stacks Foundation, explains how Stacks works and its connection to bitcoin, the Coinbase partnership, MiamiCoin, and the broader crypto industry.

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Stripe Is Hiring a Crypto Team 3 Years After Ending Bitcoin Support

Payments company Stripe, whose API supports millions of digital storefronts, has begun assembling a crypto engineering team to chart its future in digital assets. In an industry first, Stripe supported bitcoin in 2014 but abandoned the service four years later.

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