James Cirrone

James Cirrone

James Cirrone is a breaking news reporter based in New York. Prior to joining Blockworks, James was a reporter and newsletter writer at Bloomberg News. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in journalism. He also played trumpet in the university’s marching band. Contact James via email at [email protected].
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Four patent applications were published since Sept. 21, suggesting that PayPal is taking a close look at distributed ledger tech

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Marathon’s error occurred at block height 809478, and Foundry ended up snagging the reward

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A convoluted online fight — between people claiming to be the founders of NFT collection Milady’s parent company — has accelerated into a court battle with millions of dollars at stake

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The Stellar-enabled wallet will roll out next year, the company stated

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Satsuma’s co-founder told Blockworks he closed the acquisition deal with Alchemy last month

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Well into the autumn, crypto and Web3 startups are beginning to put up solid fundraising amounts

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There were a fair number of high-profile departures this week, with exits at BCB Group, Square and the NEAR Foundation

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Avalanche, Arbitrum, Optimism and Polygon are some notable additions to Google’s data analytics service

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The former FTX leader wanted to call seven witnesses, and the judge sided with government in precluding all of them

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Upland is a metaverse game that has sold NFTs for charitable purposes in the past

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Busan is South Korea’s second largest city with a population around 3.4 million

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Coinbase was one of the first to warn Zcash traders to the possible security risk

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The donations were allegedly given by Joe Bankman, Sam Bankman-Fried’s father

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CEO Adam Sullivan spoke to Blockworks about the latest with Core Scientific at the Permissionless conference in Austin, Texas

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USBTC shareholders still need to approve of the deal before it goes forward

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JPMorgan is showing interest in similar solutions, but is still in the early exploration stage

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Binance.US CEO Brian Shroder is on the outs, with general counsel Norman Reed stepping up to replace him

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A new Ethereum layer-2 and an Avalanche-based blockchain also hit the ground running this week

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This comes as a result of a monthslong bankruptcy battle between Core Scientific and Celsius

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Representatives from Bain Capital, Ledger, Paradigm and the Blockchain Association discussed how lawmakers and regulators approach Web3