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Buffett Bought Gold, Will Buy Bitcoin: Morgan Creek Digital Co-Founder

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Time Stamp: August 17, 2020 8:42 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Co-founder and partner at hedge fund Morgan Creek Digital, Jason Williams, predicted that famous investor and business tycoon Warren Buffett will buy Bitcoin (BTC).In a tweet sent on Aug. 15, Williams pointed out some of the most recent investment decisions of the American billionaire and predicted that he will end up buying Bitcoin.Buffett sold banks and bought gold. He will buy #Bitcoin soon.— Jason A. Williams🚀 (@GoingParabolic) August 15, 2020Williams was referring to the most recent changes to the portfolio of Berkshire Hathaway, where Buffett is chairman and CEO. Fortune

Two Attacks on ETC Network Leave Community Needing a Solution, Fast

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Time Stamp: August 16, 2020 9:15 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Ethereum Classic, a 2016 hard fork from Ethereum’s main blockchain, has suffered multiple concerning network attacks over the last two years. Two such attacks occurred within a seven-day span, totaling millions of dollars in losses. With the dust settling from the two 51% attacks, further details are now coming forward, as provided by a number of industry experts.“There is no debate about the attacks,” ETC Labs CEO Terry Culver told Cointelegraph on Aug. 7, answering a question on whether or not the network difficulties were in fact 51% attacks. “Community

Bitcoin Is Better Than Gold Right Now: Galaxy Digital’s Mike Novogratz

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Time Stamp: August 15, 2020 3:00 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Eyes are starting to fall on both Bitcoin and gold as money printing continues. Case in point: It was revealed that Warren Buffett through Berkshire Hathaway sold many bank stocks while acquiring Barrick Gold shares. There is a debate in certain circles over what investment is better in the current macroeconomic environment, gold or BTC? According to Mike Novogratz, Bitcoin is likely better than the precious metal. This is a sentiment that has also been said by players like Raoul Pal, a former Goldman Sachs partner. Bitcoin Is Better Than

Craig Wright Won’t Need to Pay Hodlnaut $60K Until Appeal Is Over, Says Counsel

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Time Stamp: August 14, 2020 8:56 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Craig Wright, a self-proclaimed Bitcoin (BTC) creator, is apparently not required to pay legal fees for a failed libel suit against the Twitter crypto enthusiast known as Hodlonaut.In an Aug. 14 email to Cointelegraph, Wright’s legal representative argued that he is not obliged to pay legal costs in the defamation suit until the Norwegian Supreme Court considers an appeal.The spokesperson said, “Craig has appealed to the Norwegian Supreme Court. Craig’s Norwegian lawyers say that there is no obligation on Craig to pay the costs until that appeal is dealt with.”The

Thailand’s Central Bank Eyes DeFi Use Cases for Its Digital Baht

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Time Stamp: August 14, 2020 7:55 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Thailand’s central bank is looking at smart contracts and decentralized finance (DeFi) implementations for its national digital currency, the digital baht.Vijak Sethaput, senior developer for the Bank of Thailand’s (BoT) central bank digital currency project Inthanon, discussed the country’s CBDC progress in an interview hosted by a global think tank for central banking, the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum, on Aug. 13.Sethaput was joined by Sky Guo, CEO of New York-based enterprise blockchain firm Cypherium, which is focused on global CBDC implementations and interoperability.In the interview, Guo said that

A Top Gold Bull Thinks an Exponential Bitcoin Price Expansion Is Imminent

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Time Stamp: August 12, 2020 6:00 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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Bitcoin has stalled after failing to hold above $12,000 for the second time in two weeks. The cryptocurrency trades at $11,450 as of this article’s writing, below the ever-important $11,500 level. Despite this weakness in the price of BTC, analysts remain long-term bullish on this nascent market. Joining his contemporary Raoul Pal, macro investor and gold bull Dan Tapiero says Bitcoin could soon go exponential. In a tweet published on August 10th, the BTC bull mentioned that the asset could literally 5-10x in the years ahead. This is a sentiment

USDA Proposes Blockchain Ledger for Organic Product Supply Chain

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Time Stamp: August 10, 2020 8:55 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has proposed amending its rules on organic products to include implementing blockchain technology to trace its supply chain.According to an Aug. 5 report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS), the agency said it expects electronic tracking systems, including digital ledger technology (DLT), will play an “essential role” in the traceability of its supply chain of organic products.“DLT can provide secure, verifiable, transparent, and near-instantaneous tracking at the item level in complex supply chains,” the report stated. “Critically, DLT can also

Monero’s Hashrate Experienced Its Largest Single Day Gains Ever

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Time Stamp: August 7, 2020 3:00 PM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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August 6, Monero (XMR) has experienced its biggest increase in hashrate since the network’s creation in 2014.Monero hashrate. Source: Coin Metrics.The Monero hashrate increased from 1.67 GH/s on August 5 to 2.2 GH/s on August 6. That 0.52 GH/s single day gain is the highest in the project’s history. Prior to this, most significant daily percentage gains came in the project’s early days when the base was much smaller.Banks should embrace privacy coins to protect their clientsOn August 3, Coin Center submitted comments to the Office of the Comptroller of

Ex-Chinese Banking Exec Says CBDCs Will Substitute Cash in Circulation

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Time Stamp: August 3, 2020 10:26 AM - Modified On: May 21, 2021 - Published By:
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A former Bank of China executive has shown his support for digital currencies, positioning it as a substitute for cash, widely known in economic circles as M0. Ex-vice president of China’s central bank, Wang Yongli, said that digital currencies should substitute all currencies “as much as possible”. The push for digital currency: “shouldn’t be confined to such substitution; otherwise, its market competitiveness could be problematic,” ,he said. Yongli is the present director of the Haixia blockchain research institute and previously served at the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) for over