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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Consumers could be seeing Cheez-It or Frosted Flakes NFTs in the future

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Tether plans to mine its first bitcoin in the Uruguay facility by mid-Q3 2023

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Worldcoin brought in the vast majority of the capital this week, but there were other standouts

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OKX has also filed to become a Digital Asset Service Provider in France, which could take up to six months, according to the company

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Lummis originally made critical comments of the Biden Administration’s tax on bitcoin miners at Bitcoin Miami, but retweeted an article summing up her views on Thursday

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Starbucks Odyssey is the company’s Web3 rewards beta program, which is currently only available to select individuals

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Norges Bank is also ramping up its investigation into possibly offering a central bank digital currency from now to 2025

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With this move, South Korea leap frogs the US and UK, both of which don’t require their high-ranking leaders to disclose crypto holdings

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The Fahrenheit Consortium beat out competing offers from Novawulf and BRIC

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The broadcasters were discussing Hong Kong’s new regulations for virtual asset trading platforms set to go into effect June 1

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Coinbase said the layer-2 is still building toward its “genesis window,” with mainnet launch on the horizon

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The solution from Coinbase uses MPC technology to secure customers’ assets

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All four ads, one of which already ran this past Sunday, feature Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

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Russia banned 500 more Americans, including individuals from think tanks, US government agencies and even late night comedians 

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Bitcoin makes up over 60% of the ETP, with Ethereum coming in second at around 26%

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Three past presidential contenders have accepted crypto donations, and dozens of other politicians do too

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The creditors committee said BlockFi’s communication with creditors was “loud” and “in your face”

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Auradine and River Financial top big week of raises that included $6 million from Jack Dorsey

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Crypto exchange Bitget also has 300 job openings, according to a company report

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The settlement reached between the New York Attorney General and Coin Cafe is tiny compared to some other crypto players who were targeted this year

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Coinbase Cloud already operates nodes on Aptos, Ethereum, Flow, and Solana

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KYC is required for participation, and there are range of rewards available for bug hunters

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“We’re not pounding the table telling everyone to buy bitcoin,” Fidelity International’s Christian Staub told Financial News Wednesday

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The company developed the raffle using a custom smart contract, and said it plans to release the repository as open source in the near future

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Metaco’s custody technology has been previously used by Citi and BNP Paribas

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Tudor Jones, founder of hedge fund Tudor Investment Corporation, appears to be a bit of a Bitcoin bull

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Lightning Network support will be coming to the OKX Wallet as well

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The American Institute for Economic Research is dragging the White House for its purported “ignorance about energy usage, bitcoin, and economic policy”

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Creditors will have until July 28, 2023 to vote on BlockFi’s restructuring plan should the court approve it

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The crypto exchange announced a global advisory council that would be made up of several former US lawmakers

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DeFi and NFT-related projects dominated over the past few days

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Linda Yaccarino will become Twitter chief executive, while Musk steps back into CTO role

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Binance chose to exit the country because of new stablecoin guidance and crypto exchange investor limits

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Robinhood customers can place their first trades once the feature rolls out in June

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Coinbase Chief Legal Officer Paul Grewal tweeted an apology for not providing “the whole picture” of the Pepe the Frog meme

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Using crypto in any way is still illegal in this African country, despite many of its citizens owning digital assets

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This isn’t the first time #DeleteCoinbase has trended on Twitter

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This meeting is the first step toward stablecoin creation in the state since the passage of the Wyoming Stable Token Act in March

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Kim Nam-kuk, a member of South Korea’s Democratic Party, is said to have owned 800,000 wemix coins in 2021

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Joseph James O’Connor, or PlugwalkJoe, has been charged with stealing over $794,000 worth of crypto

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Joe Biden says crypto tax loopholes cost the government $18 billion, but where does that number come from?

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21Shares joined major players in the crypto space who have also responded, including a16z, Binance and Circle

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The future of Web3 intellectual property is at the center of Pudgy Penguins’ new $9 million seed round

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Binance NFT, the crypto exchange’s non-fungible token marketplace, previously added support for the BNB chain, Ethereum and Polygon

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Wallet security experts spoke to Blockworks about the convenience and security of MPC wallet solutions

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A community bitcoin payment and custody solution, a multichain ZK rollup trading layer, and a probability token provider were the top fundraisers

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Michael Kraines stepped down as DCG’s chief financial officer

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One San Jose city official is keen on using blockchain tech to conduct government business

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The Institute of Internal Auditors said it wants an independent internal audit function at all US crypto exchanges to restore investor confidence in the industry

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Binance, a16z, Polygon and Circle all issued a response to the UK’s February consultation on the “future financial services regulatory regime for cryptoassets”