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Will Heasman

Will is a freelance journalist and copywriter based in London. He's covered the crypto industry in various roles for several years after becoming enamored with the space in 2014.

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News  |  Politics Oct 12, 2020 Is the End Nigh for End-to-End Encryption?
Is the End Nigh for End-to-End Encryption?

Within an open letter to global tech companies, the governments of seven countries demanded a paradoxical request: to put a stop to end-to-end encryption while upholding user privacy. The pleas, emerging from the UK, the U.S., New Zealand, Canada, India, Japan, and Australia, came in an apparent effort to

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News  |  Bitcoin  |  Technology Oct 08, 2020 BlueWallet Integrates PayJoin to Boost User Privacy
BlueWallet Integrates PayJoin to Boost User Privacy

BlueWallet, a Bitcoin-based mobile wallet, just shipped its latest update. Among a litany of fixes, the wallet now allows users to mix coins, conferring additional transaction privacy. The inbuilt mixer, known as PayJoin, is a CoinJoin variant occurring between two parties that obscures transaction origins, making them harder to trace.

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News  |  Bitcoin  |  Business Oct 08, 2020 Square Allocates 1% of Its Assets to Bitcoin
Square Allocates 1% of Its Assets to Bitcoin

Square, the payments platform pioneered by Twitter CEO and Bitcoin evangelist Jack Dorsey, has purchased $50 million worth of bitcoin as part of its new investment strategy. Amounting to precisely 4,709 bitcoin, the purchase represents an aggregate 1% of the firm's total assets. "Square believes that

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News  |  Bitcoin  |  Business Oct 08, 2020 BitMEX CEO and CTO Step Down With Immediate Effect Following CFTC Charges
BitMEX CEO and CTO Step Down With Immediate Effect Following CFTC Charges

100x Group, holding company of embattled crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX operator HDR Global Trading Limited, has announced the replacement of CEO Arthur Hayes,  following CTFC charges of money laundering and illegally operating an unlicensed exchange. Within a blog post issued earlier today, BitMEX's parent company noted that Hayes&

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News  |  Bitcoin  |  Business Oct 02, 2020 Nearly 40,000 Bitcoin Have Been Pulled From BitMEX Since CFTC Allegations
Nearly 40,000 Bitcoin Have Been Pulled From BitMEX Since CFTC Allegations

Users of Bitcoin derivatives platform BitMEX have withdrawn over 32,200 bitcoin (approximately $337 million at press time) following CFTC charges of anti-money laundering violations and the arrest of the firm's CTO. As a result of the allegations, anxieties boiled up over potential BitMEX asset seizures, with many

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News  |  Bitcoin  |  Business Sep 29, 2020 Online Marketplace Toffee Adds Fiat-to-Bitcoin Conversion
Online Marketplace Toffee Adds Fiat-to-Bitcoin Conversion

Toffee, an online marketplace for digital goods, is partnering with fiat onramp Wyre to allow merchants to efficiently convert fiat payments into bitcoin - negating costly processing fees and jurisdictional banking restrictions. According to Toffee, the decision to integrate with a fiat onramp came, in part, due to the fact

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News  |  Bitcoin  |  Business Sep 25, 2020 MMO Developer Pixelmatic Builds Bitcoin VR Conference
MMO Developer Pixelmatic Builds Bitcoin VR Conference

The Magical Crypto Friends have joined forces with MMO game development company Pixelmatic to host a Bitcoin conference with a virtual reality (VR) twist. The coronavirus pandemic has curbed nearly every Bitcoin conference in 2020. Government restrictions, lockdowns, and travel bans led to a host of events being canceled and

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News  |  Bitcoin  |  Business Sep 22, 2020 Iranian Power Plants to Auction Off Surplus Energy to Bitcoin Miners
Iranian Power Plants to Auction Off Surplus Energy to Bitcoin Miners

Three power plants in Iran have been given the green light to provide their surplus energy to Bitcoin miners to ramp up their revenue and ease pressure on the national grid. The head of Iran's Thermal Power Plant Holding Company (TPPH), Mohsen Tarztalab, announced the news yesterday, revealing

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