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Mercados

First Mover: Rookie YFI Token Jumped 8-Fold in August as DeFi Dominated

Yearn.finance's YFI token, which looked like another inside DeFi joke when it launched in July, dominated the August return rankings.

Yearn.finance came in first in First Mover's monthly digital-asset performance ranking for August. (Sumiyoshi Hiromori/Metropolitan Museum of Art, modified by CoinDesk)

Mercados

Bitcoin Nears $12K as Dollar Declines to 29-Month Low

Sell-off in the U.S. dollar and ether's price rally power gains in bitcoin.

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Finanças

How the Bitcoin Blockchain Is Being Used to Safeguard Nuclear Power Stations

Buenos Aires-based Nuclearis is using the Bitcoin-powered RSK blockchain as an immutable anchor for keeping tabs on critical documents.

Nuclear power (Thomas Millot/Unsplash)

Tecnologia

Protection Over Profit: What Early Mining Patterns Suggest About Bitcoin’s Inventor

Researchers believe Bitcoin’s creator probably used specialized mining software in the coin’s early days to protect the new network – not to profit from it.

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Mercados

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Over $11.7K; Uniswap Passes $500M in Daily Volume

Bitcoin’s price jumped to $11,784 while the top decentralized exchange crossed a half-billion dollars in daily trading volume.

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Mercados

Huobi Futures to Launch Options Trading This Week, Joining Throng Challenging Deribit

Huobi Futures will offer bitcoin options starting Tuesday, aiming to meet demand from traders for ways to hedge against risks in crypto markets.

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Mercados

First Mover: Huobi Takes On OKEx in Futures, Opening New Front in ‘Chinese’ Rivalry

Huobi is taking on OKEx in the business of bitcoin futures trading, opening a new front in the ongoing rivalry between the two Chinese-led exchanges.

Terracotta warriors, Lintong County, China

Mercados

US Stocks Closing on Bigger August Gain Than Bitcoin

While bitcoin is eyeing an August gain for the first time in three years, the cryptocurrency is still lagging U.S. stocks over the month.

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Política

Someone Just Lost $16M in Bitcoin by Using a Malicious Install of the Electrum Wallet

An Electrum wallet user claims to have lost a fortune in bitcoin after installing an older version of the software from a malicious source.

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Mercados

The Case for $500,000 Bitcoin

The Winklevoss brothers make an argument that, in the long run, bitcoin is the only good safe haven.

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