Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Expands Operations in Paraguay After Securing 2 Hydropower Contracts

[ad_1] “Paraguay has access to an abundance of surplus renewable power, and these acquisitions secure valuable, yet limited, sustainable energy contracts while broadening our foothold in a resource-rich country,” Geoff Morphy, CEO of Bitfarms, said in a statement. [ad_2]

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Crypto VC Firm Polychain Capital Raises $200M for Fourth Fund: Fortune

[ad_1] Polychain Capital was founded in 2016 by early Coinbase employee Olaf Carlson-Wee. The firm has about $2.6 billion in assets under management, Fortune said citing Pitchbook data. The extended crypto winter has put pressure on the crypto investment landscape for both startups and the venture capital firms that back them. [ad_2]

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Coinbase to Pause Staking in California, New Jersey, South Carolina and Wisconsin

[ad_1] Crypto exchange Coinbase is pausing its retail staking service in California, New Jersey, South Carolina and Wisconsin after those states said they would require changes to those services while its proceedings against such staking services move forward. Crypto staked before the orders were issued will remain unaffected. [ad_2]

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Hedge Fund Fir Tree Creates Fir Tree Digital Asset Opportunities Fund

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Circle’s Allaire Sees Stablecoins as Best Option for Yuan Internationalization

[ad_1] Although Allaire views stablecoins as a superior option to CBDCs, he said the two are complimentary. “If central banks are going to upgrade their own systems to move away from legacy technology into more modern distributed ledger technology, that’s great,” he told SCMP. “There’s a whole bunch of things that are useful from that, […]

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BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s Turnabout on Bitcoin $BTC Elicits Cheers, Skepticism of Crypto Cred

[ad_1] “Arguments have been made that ETFs, as well as bitcoin exchanges, ignore what some believe is the single most important feature of bitcoin, the ability to control their funds without the need to place trust in a third-party to manage the asset,” said Jim Iourio, managing director of TJM Institutional Services and a veteran […]

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3AC Liquidator May Try to Claw Back About $1.2B From Digital Currency Group, BlockFi

[ad_1] A confidential July 7 report from Teneo, the liquidator, that CoinDesk reviewed referred to more than $1 billion of “prospective claims” against DCG and its Genesis lending subsidiary consisting of “both preference claims and claims which have resulted from issues around the perfection of loan and security documentation.” It also noted more than $220 […]

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