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The Kansas City Chiefs player announced he will convert all his earnings to bitcoin using third-party payments service Zap by Strike.

Russia's CBDC will also have a two-tiered system much like China’s digital yuan, where the central bank distributes the CBDC to commercial banks who then disperse it to customers. 

Graham Ivan Clark, who was a minor at the time of his actions, avoids the minimum 10-year prison sentence for adults.

New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG), a bitcoin investment and services provider, announced the appointment of New York Life Insurance Company boss Theodore Mathas to its board of directors on Wednesday. 

Yellen critiqued Bitcoin’s energy impact and utility while remarking that the Fed is right to pursue its research into CBDCs.

Melissa Strait will oversee Coinbase's anti-money laundering and know-your-customer strategies. 

New York City mayoral candidate Andrew Yang announced that he intends to make the city a "hub for BTC and other cryptocurrencies" if elected. 

The libertarian-leaning Republican Senator-elect sees Bitcoin working alongside the U.S. dollar.

President-elect Joe Biden and his transition team have announced Janet Yellen as the official Secretary of Treasury nominee.

Bridgewater Associates founder and CIO Ray Dalio is expecting the growth of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), but says he still sees problems with bitcoin as a currency.

The Bank of Canada's second-highest ranking official is ending her term in May 2021.

Four crypto entrepreneurs, with a combined net worth of $8.7 billion, have made it to Forbes’ 2020 world’s billionaire list.

Michael Mosier has returned to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) after a stint as chief technical counsel for blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis.

Cryptocurrency investor Arianna Simpson is joining Andreessen Horowitz as a deal partner.  The founder and managing director of crypto hedge fund Autonomous Partners announced the news Friday on Twitter. She said she has “admired the brand and platform that a16z has built from afar.” 1/ I have some news! I’m thrilled to announce I’ll be […]

Wall Street veteran and former CEO of blockchain startup Digital Asset, Blythe Masters, has joined investment firm Motive Partners following its $473 million private equity fund.  Masters previously worked for JP Morgan as its head of global commodities for almost three decades. In 2015, she became the CEO of Digital Asset, creator of the open-source […]

Cryptocurrency exchange and custodian Gemini has appointed Julian Sawyer from Starling Bank as Managing Director overseeing the company’s operations in the United Kingdom and Europe.   Sawyer is the co-founder and former chief operating officer of one of the UK’s largest mobile banks Starling Bank. According to Gemini’s press release, Sawyer played a crucial role […]

Market structure veteran Richard Johnson has left Greenwich Associates, a global data and analytics provider, to start his own crypto firm, Texture Capital. “I started thinking about this a while ago,” Johnson told The Block. “I was sitting at my desk at Greenwich and writing about how tokenization and STOs are going to be revolutionary […]

Agatha Bacelar is running against establishment candidate and leader of the Democratic Party U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi in San Francisco’s congressional primary race. Bacelar told The Scoop that this is a time for unprecedented change from all corners, including the crypto space. Listen on Spotify, iTunes, Google Play, or Stitcher.   Bacelar said social justice […]