Bitcoin dropped down to $35,000

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Hive Blockchain Technologies, a publicly traded Canadian crypto-mining company, said it received approval to list its common shares on Nasdaq.

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Congresswoman Maxine Waters announced that Congress had formed a new working group that would focus on cryptocurrency and fintech policy. Called the Blockchain Caucus or Fintech Task Force, the House Democrat group will feature 12 members of the House Financial Services Committee.

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The amount of BTC in the miners' wallets is decreasing. Bitcoin miners have been selling (per on-chain data) in recent months, particularly after the China FUD began.

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Banco de Portugal has granted operating licenses to local cryptocurrency exchanges for the first time ever. The central bank announced that the Portuguese exchanges Criptoloja and Mind the Coin were now classified as virtual assets service providers.

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Bitcoin’s network hashrate, a measure of its computational horsepower, has slumped 46% since its peak level in mid-May. Bitcoin hashrate is currently 91.2 EH/s (quintillion hashes per second), close to half of its 171.4 EH/s high posted less than six weeks ago.

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HitBTC has added Gitcoin (GTC/BTC, GTC/USDT).

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60% of bitcoins sold in May-June were bought in March-April and sold at a loss. 40% was bought earlier and sold at a profit.

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During the conversation, Nabiullina stated:

“Speculative crypto assets are surely the most dangerous strategies of all. The price is very volatile; losses may be appalling. The Central Bank never gives advice, where to invest, but in this particular case – here [one] should definitely not [invest].”

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China's central bank has issued guidelines for a harder crackdown on crypto. Bitcoin and crypto prices crashed this morning after the news broke-out, with experts warning this crackdown is more serious than previous ones.

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Binance will list BarnBridge (BOND) and Enzyme (MLN) and will open trading for BOND/BTC, BOND/BNB, BOND/BUSD, BOND/USDT, MLN/BTC, MLN/BNB, MLN/BUSD and MLN/USDT trading pairs at 2021-07-05 06:00 AM (UTC).


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The Kazakhstan government has imposed a new law that will see cryptocurrency mining taxed.

The law will come into effect on January 1, 2022.

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NEXO token has been listed on Bitfinex.

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109,678,062 XRP tokens (74,586,574 in US dollars) was moved by the Bybit platform to Binance.

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Ukrainian online banking application Monobank has completed a pilot integration with a cryptocurrency trading platform.

The new integration will enable Monobank users to buy and sell Bitcoin with a debit card.

Monobank expects to release the new feature later this month pending approval from the National Bank of Ukraine

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Binance will list Barn_Bridge (BOND).

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The prime minister of Vietnam, has authorized the country’s Central Bank to study and pilot cryptocurrency implementation.

This puts Vietnam’s State Bank as the first bank of a country to explore the practicability and functions of central Bank Digital currencies (CBDCs).

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British lender Barclays is preventing its customers from making payments to Binance following a regulatory crackdown on the crypto exchange.

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Cardano’s latest strategic partnerships, the new collaboration with Nexo resulted in the full integration of the Cardano blockchain native cryptocurrency into the lending platform Nexo.

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Marshall Wace, a major hedge fund from London, that manages approximately $55 billion has decided to go in the cryptocurrency sector.

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