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Crypto Goes to College — Soon after Tal Rabin joined the University of Pennsylvania in the fall of 2020 the computer and information sciences professor successfully convinced the institution to let her teach a dedicated blockchain engineering class. “I had a class of 140, but I was restricted by the…

Bitcoin, Ether rise; BNB leads gainers in top 10 crypto, followed by Solana — Bitcoin recovered above US$19,000 in early Thursday morning trading in Asia, after fluctuating around that resistance level for the past week. …

Bitcoin Slips as a Wave of Investor Angst Saps Global Markets — The largest token fell as much as 3.1% to a near one-week low and was trading around $18,700 as of 12:45 p.m. in Tokyo. Ether and most other major coins also posted losses. Stocks, bonds and commodities are…

FTX Wins Bid to Buy Crypto Lender Voyager Digital’s Assets Out of Bankruptcy — Exchange giant FTX won the bidding war to buy the assets of bankrupt Voyager Digital, Voyager said in a press release late Monday Eastern time. FTX was bidding against Wave Financial, a digital-asset investment firm. Voyager…

Bitcoin price falls below US$19,000, ETH down, XRP continues to rise — Bitcoin traded below the US$19,000 mark in early Monday trading in Asia after fluctuating around the resistance level all week. Ethereum and most other tokens in the cryptocurrency top 10 by market capitalization lost ground. …

Bankrupt crypto lender Voyager’s CFO to exit months after appointment — Voyager Digital Ltd Chief Financial Officer Ashwin Prithipaul is preparing to step down from his role within months of his appointment at the crypto lender that filed for bankruptcy in July. …

UK bill allows law enforcement to ‘seize, freeze, recover’ crypto assets — The United Kingdom has introduced a bill that would enable its law enforcement agencies to “seize, freeze and recover” crypto assets, to prevent cyber crime and money laundering. Gansu Province warns no crypto mining within national data centers…

South Korea seizes US$184 mln in crypto towards unpaid taxes — Cryptocurrency assets seized from alleged tax delinquents in South Korea in 2021 and 2022 amounted to nearly 260 billion Korean won (US$184.3 million), according to local media reports. Bitcoin Pares Drop Sparked by Fed’s Warning of Rate-Hike Pain —…

JPMorgan Chase executive says crypto usage for payments decreasing — Speaking in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Tuesday, JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s global head of payments Takis Georgakopoulos said that demand for cryptocurrencies as a payment method has seen a drastic decline in the past six months. “When it…