San Francisco-based Coinbase has received approval for digital currency trading of Ether and Litecoin in New York; the company was also granted approval for a debit card service called Shift Card; with the approval, Maria Vullo and the the New York State Department of Financial Services reiterated their position on the OCC's fintech charter, noting the importance for state fintech oversight. Source
This week, we look at:
PayPal and Square being larger than Bank of America and Goldman Sachs
The SoftBank $4 billion in tech oligopoly call options, and why people feel uneasy
Uniswap vs. SushiSwap, and Bitcoin vs. Litecoin, and why these forks felt wrong
How understanding signalling can help make better decisions
The Walmart Litecoin fake post brought the coin price from $175 up to $231.
Someone, or a group of people, likely made a lot of money on a pump and dump. According to Coinmarketcap, the coin's trading volume tripled from $2.4 billion to $6.3 billion in the hour after the article went live.
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