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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

Analyst Who Called Bitcoin’s Tuesday Low Expects a Move to $13,000

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Bitcoin has bounced strongly after plunging as low as $11,100 on Tuesday. As of the time of this article’s writing, the leading cryptocurrency trades for $11,600 on leading exchanges. This is just under 5% above yesterday’s lows. An analyst that called that the cryptocurrency would bottom in the $11,100-11,200 region says that the asset is primed to move to $13,000. Other analysts think Bitcoin will do so. They note that since the cryptocurrency is holding above $11,500, it remains in a bullish medium-term state. Technically speaking, there is some resistance

Token Launches From Ethereum to Telegram: Where Do We Go From Here?

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In February, United States Securities and Exchange Commission Commissioner Hester Peirce was asked to give her opinion on the SEC’s case against Telegram. She declined to comment at the time, as SEC officials do not speak publicly about ongoing enforcement actions. In late July, however, with the Telegram case settled, Commissioner Peirce gave a speech titled “Not Braking and Breaking” that pointedly questioned the approach taken by the SEC in the Telegram case. Concluding her remarks, Commissioner Peirce asked:“Who did we protect by bringing this action? The initial purchasers, who

Bitcoin Price Seals Best Weekly Close in 2.5 Years: 5 Things to Know

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Bitcoin (BTC) greets another week with a push to $12,000 and its highest weekly close since after it hit $20,000 — will it return?Cointelegraph takes a look at five things that stand to impact BTC price performance in the coming five days.BTC: A two-and-half-year record weekly closeBitcoin hitting $12,000 again early Monday was more than just a boon for traders — in doing so, BTC/USD sealed its highest close on weekly time frames since January 2018.This means that no single week of price action ended at such high levels since,

The Human Rights Foundation Awards Grants to Three More Bitcoin Projects

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The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is issuing grants to three more Bitcoin developers. JoinInbox creator Openoms, Zeus creator Evan Kaloudis and Fully Noded creator Fontaine will be gifted 1 bitcoin each, worth over $11,000 at the time of writing, making for a total of over $33,000. This marks the second round of grants from the Bitcoin Development Fund, HRF’s new fund to support Bitcoin projects. “HRF decided to acknowledge and support these three developers and their projects because they are all focusing on making Bitcoin technology more accessible. Usability is

Cryptocurrency News Roundup for Aug 3, 2020

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Bitcoin started the week on a positive note after an unusually volatile weekend by recent standards. The BTC/USD price temporarily reached a local high of over $12,000. The eventful weekend was preceded by a credit-rating downgrade from Fitch who placed a “negative outlook” on the United State’s triple-A rating on Friday. Fitch added that a “resurgence of inflation” could be on the cards, which would in turn force the Fed to increase interest rates. It would be interesting to see the effects that would have on Bitcoin and its brethren.

The Scam and Fall of YFI Clones

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After the success of yEARN finance (YFI), a yield farming token which saw a rise in price from $35 to over $4000, a number of cryptocurrencies are trying to copy its success. These include the likes of YFFI, YFII, and Asuka, however, they’ve all witnessed 100% drops and a conspicuous exit scam. Encouraging Words Fueled by DeFi platforms where any token with an address can be traded for anything else, these are the days of Wild West token swaps. To clone the YFI token, developers only had to copy code

Bitcoin Reddit Roundup – July 2020

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Welcome to the second edition of Reddit Roundup by Nik and Flip of Bitcoin Magazine! This roundup contains 45 links to the best quality content that was uploaded to Bitcoin Reddit this month. Most links come from the popular r/bitcoin, but we also retrieved posts from other forums as well, such as r/BitcoinMining. In this roundup there are 10 different categories of links: Privacy, Adoption, Development, Security, Mining, Business, Education, Regulation & Politics, Archaeology (Financial Incumbents) and, last but not least, Memes, Fun, And Other. Big shoutout to Sam Wouter,