In the darkest corners of Crypto Twitter, on the r/WallStreetBets Reddit page, across a myriad of Telegram chats and in Discord messaging rooms, thousands of inexperienced investors were being sold a promise: buy at this time and riches will follow.
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GameStop is DeFi’s golden moment
When Robinhood shut off its customers in what seemed to be a move to protect its hedge fund masters, the ‘little guy’ focused stock trading app opened the door to crypto’s decentralization
“This was a shot across the bow for institutional investors everywhere,” said Peter Smith, cofounder and CEO of the decade-old cryptocurrency exchange Blockchain.com. “There’s incredible power in decentralized groups of individuals and the future of finance will be built less like Wall Street and more like the internet: by a decentralized group of individuals.”
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Crypto vet Kelly Loeffler loses Senate seat
Sen. Loeffler, who stepped down as CEO of crypto derivatives platform Bakkt in December 2019 to take up a Georgia Senate seat, appears to have lost her re-election campaign
Loeffler resigned as CEO of Bakkt, a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange and custody firm owned by NYSE-parent company Intercontinental Exchange, or ICE, shortly ahead of her appointment to Georgia’s empty U.S. Senate seat on Dec. 4, 2019.
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Indian exchange proposes sandbox to avoid countrywide crypto ban
BuyUcoin says its proposals have been drawn up in conjunction with other Indian trading platforms but there’s no guarantee that the government will listen
“This is the first milestone of a long journey for making cryptocurrency accessible to the masses,” BuyUcoin CEO and co-founder Shivam Thakral said. “The draft of the sandbox is driven by input from crypto experts and industry insiders. This will not only help the government to make laws, but will also guide startups and budding entrepreneurs to enter this blooming industry.”
