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Binance, Coinbase feud heats up amid Bloomberg report dispute

Binance, Coinbase feud heats up amid Bloomberg report dispute

Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal has firmly denied any connection between the exchange and a recent Bloomberg report that claims Binance played a key role in launching World Liberty Financial (WLFI), a crypto project linked to President Donald Trump. The report, published on July 11, cited anonymous sources who alleged that Binance helped develop […]

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Urgent appeal to help defend Tornado Cash’s Roman Storm and the right to financial privacy

Urgent appeal to help defend Tornado Cash’s Roman Storm and the right to financial privacy

Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm took to Twitter with an urgent plea for support, ahead of his high-profile trial date tomorrow. Storm, who has been battling legal charges for nearly two years, is calling on the crypto community to help raise $500,000 in the next few days and $1.5 million in the coming weeks to

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Glass ceiling cracks as women rise in Web3

Glass ceiling cracks as women rise in Web3

Welcome to Slate Sundays, CryptoSlate’s new weekly feature showcasing in-depth interviews, expert analysis, and thought-provoking op-eds that go beyond the headlines to explore the ideas and voices shaping the future of crypto. I recently interviewed Gracy Chen, the first female CEO of Bitget and the only female CEO out of the top 10 centralized exchanges. I

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Bitcoin gains ground in gold vs. crypto debate

Bitcoin gains ground in gold vs. crypto debate

When gold maximalist Debra Robinson jeered, “Imagine paying $118k for a set of man-made numbers,” she echoed a familiar skepticism among precious metal enthusiasts. Lyn Alden, a respected macro analyst and Bitcoin bull, responded with pragmatic advice: “Precious metal enthusiasts could buy a bitcoin position of like 5% of their metals position. That hedges their risk

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CZ threatens to sue Bloomberg over report linking Binance to Trump-backed USD1 stablecoin

CZ threatens to sue Bloomberg over report linking Binance to Trump-backed USD1 stablecoin

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao or CZ threatened to sue news agency Bloomberg for a second time over its report alleging links between the exchange and the USD1 stablecoin. In an X post on Friday, CZ called the article “another hit piece” that was “sponsored by a competitor,” without explicitly naming the competitor. He dismissed it

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Novogratz calls out Schiff’s decade-long Bitcoin blunders

Novogratz calls out Schiff’s decade-long Bitcoin blunders

When Bitcoin skeptic Peter Schiff started yet another rant about Bitcoin today, it was too much for Galaxy CEO Mike Novogratz. As a salty Schiff began calling Bitcoin’s capped supply “meaningless” and “arbitrary,” Novogratz fired back: “Why do you hate $BTC so much? You have been wrong on it for a decade. A flexible mind

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Democrats declare ‘Anti-Crypto Corruption Week’ to counter GOP crypto bills

Democrats declare ‘Anti-Crypto Corruption Week’ to counter GOP crypto bills

US Democratic lawmakers, led by House members Maxine Waters and Stephen Lynch, announced on July 11 that next week will be designated “Anti-Crypto Corruption Week.” The initiative aims to unite Democrats in opposing several pro-crypto bills that are currently under consideration in Congress, including the GENIUS Act, the CLARITY Act, and a proposed law aimed

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Fortune Magazine owner to lead Thai firm’s pivot into Bitcoin and DeFi banking

Fortune Magazine owner to lead Thai firm’s pivot into Bitcoin and DeFi banking

DV8 Public Company Limited, a publicly listed firm in Thailand looking to reinvent itself as a Bitcoin Treasury firm, has appointed Thai business magnate Chatchaval Jiaravanon as its new Chairman, according to a July 11 statement shared with CryptoSlate. Jiaravanon, best known internationally for acquiring Fortune Magazine in 2018, is part of Thailand’s influential Charoen

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Binance’s Zhao urges governments to simplify laws with AI tools

Binance’s Zhao urges governments to simplify laws with AI tools

Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao has urged national governments to explore the use of artificial intelligence tools, particularly large language models (LLMs), to simplify their legal systems. In a July 10 post on X, Zhao argued that AI could play a key role in making legal codes more understandable and accessible to everyday

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Jack Dorsey endorses privacy-focused chat app White Noise amid own app launch plan

Jack Dorsey endorses privacy-focused chat app White Noise amid own app launch plan

Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and CEO of Block, has thrown his support behind a new messaging application called White Noise. His endorsement follows the recent release of his white paper for Bitchat, a Bluetooth-based messaging platform without internet connectivity. Bitchat aims to be a privacy-first chat app that ditches the internet altogether to

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