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Fitch Downgraded U.S. Long-Term Debt Citing Structural Concerns About U.S. Budget Deficits
Fitch Ratings cut the United States’ long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to AA+ from AAA.
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Tether Bought 1529 BTC in Q2, Holds More US Treasuries Than Australia
Tether Excess Reserves increased by 850M to reach $3.3B as it revealed $72.5B overall exposure in US T-Bills. The company also increased its Bitcoin holdings to more than 54000 BTC.
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Following Scrutiny in Kenya and Europe, Worldcoin Says It Will Let Interested 3rd Parties Use Its ID System
Kenya suspended Worldcoin activities, while the project also has fallen under investigation in France, UK, and Germany. Worldcoin says it will continue rolling out operations in "all the parts of the world that will accept us" and admitted that plans to sell collected data to interested parties.
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MicroStrategy Acquired 467 BTC in July, Prepares to Raise Up To $750M More
MicroStrategy now holds 152,800 BTC, and the company's recent financial filings hint at more upcoming bitcoin purchases.
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Someone Used Rewards Bug on Stacker.News to Withdraw 20M Sats
"The site went down after midnight last night following our recent changes. The root cause was a bug in rewards introduced by upgrading our ORM," k00b wrote.
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Coinbase Is Still 'Looking Into How To Best Add Lightning'
After saying that Coinbase will integrate Lightning back in April, CEO Brian Armstrong repeated that the largest exchange in the United States is still evaluating options for its forthcoming Lightning integration.
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The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance
The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services. No amendments have been accepted that would mitigate the bill’s most dangerous elements.
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Bitcoin ATM Firm Bity Takes On Swiss Regulator For 'Undemocratic' KYC Limits
Bity, the operator of 45 Bitcoin ATMs in Switzerland, is moving ahead with a complaint against Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) for lowering the limits on Bitcoin ATM transactions that require users to reveal their identity.
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HRF Bounty #11: Non-Custodial Mobile Wallet with BIP47 Payment Codes
The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) added a new bounty to its recently announced Bitcoin Bounty Challenge to encourage new wallets to add BIP47 support.
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Coinbase CEO: SEC Asked To Stop Trading In Everything Except Bitcoin
Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong told the Financial Times that the SEC made the recommendation before launching legal action against the Nasdaq-listed company last month for failing to register as a broker.
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Adopting Bitcoin Conference 2024 Will Take Place on January 26-28 in Cape Town
Adopting Bitcoin 2024 conference is set to take place on January 26th - 28th in Cape Town, South Africa.
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Spiral Quarterly Update Q3 2023
Spiral, an independent, bitcoin-focused entity within the Block ecosystem of companies, had quite an eventful quarter.
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