Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.

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Bitcoin Miner Argo Blockchain Raises $27M to Ease Liquidity Pressures, Shares Plunge 15%

The firm has also sold 3,400 Antminer S19's to raise $7 million.

Argo Blockchain's Helios facility in Dickens County, Texas. (Argo Blockchain)

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Judge Dismisses Arrest Warrant for Terra's Head of General Affairs Yu: Report

The arrest comes after the country invalidated Terra co-founder Do Kwon's passport.

The Netherlands has arrested a developer of Tornado Cash. (Shutterstock)

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Crypto Lending Firm Ledn to Acquire Canadian Fund Manager Arxnovum

With the deal, Ledn will be able to offer more types of investments.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Jan Web/Unsplash)

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Transit Swap Exploiter Returns Large Chunk of $28.9M Hack

Security firms help locate the hacker's IP address following the $28.9 million exploit.

(Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

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Kim Kardashian Settles SEC Probe for $1.26M for Hyping EthereumMax Without Disclosing Payment

The reality TV star also agreed not to tout any cryptocurrencies for three years.

Kim Kardashian settles SEC's "token hype" probe. (Raymond Hall/GC Images)

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Double Jump Tokyo to Build Blockchain-Based Games Using Sega's IP

The blockchain-based trading card game series Sangokushi Taisen, will use Japanese blockchain project Oasys.

(Unsplash)

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MicroStrategy Looks to Hire Software Engineer for Building Bitcoin Lightning Network Infrastructure

The new hire will also been tasked with designing decentralized finance technologies.

Executive Chairman MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)

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Bankrupt Crypto Lender Celsius Network's CEO, Alex Mashinsky, Resigns

Celsius' CEL token is trading 8% lower following the announcement.

Alex Mashinsky, founder and CEO of Celsius Network, at Consensus 2019 in New York (CoinDesk)

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Jack Mallers’ Crypto Payment Firm Strike Raises $80M

Washington University in St. Louis and the University of Wyoming were among the investors in the Series B funding round.

Strike CEO Jack Mallers speaks at the Bitcoin 2022 conference in Miami. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

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Crypto Exchange Bitkub, 4 Others Sued by Thai SEC Over Fake Volume Claims

The move comes after the regulator fined crypto exchange Bitkub's CTO $250,000 for insider trading.

Thai SEC clamps down on artificial trading on two Bangkok exchanges. (Waranout Joe/Unsplash)