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Crypto Made the Agenda at Last Month's Fed Meeting

This appears to be the first time the topic has come up in the seminal monthly FOMC meeting.

By Nate DiCamilloAug 18, 2021

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10:00 AM

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Bitcoin’s quantum problem gets a recovery tool, but not for Satoshi’s 1.1 million coins

Project Eleven says it has funded a proof that lets a wallet's own key-derivation path stand in as ownership after quantum computers can forge its signatures. It runs in 243 milliseconds on a laptop.

5:37 AM

Positive

Inside Zcash's new node that targets Visa-scale privacy at 50,000 transactions per second

The new Zakura client is the first live piece of a plan to take Zcash from roughly one private transaction per second to payment-network scale.

Yesterday

9:52 PM

Negative

France orders country's internet service providers to block Polymarket

The regulator cited concerns over addictive mechanics, a lack of self-exclusion tools, and a high volume of French users bypassing previous financial restrictions.

6:30 PM

Crypto executives say digital native generations may never need a bank account

Steakhouse Financial co-founder Adrian Cachinero says digital-native generations may rely less on banks, while Binance says younger users are already driving crypto adoption in emerging markets.

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