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 | | | | | | 1. Ross Ulbricht, the creator of darknet marketplace Silk Road, has written a birthday post, which also happens to be his seventh year in prison. Ulbricht, who was arrested in 2013 and is serving a double life sentence without parole plus 40 years, said: More than any other day of the year, I feel the weight of the time I have lost, the years of my life I will never get back. He went on to say that "time is priceless, yet it must be spent." He then asked how his readers spent the past seven years and if they were spent "in a way that reflects their scarcity and value" or simply wasted. "How will you spend the next precious seven?" he asks. Despite the fact that he faces many more years in prison, he is using the power of love to "transform a cold and dehumanizing system." I have yet to meet a person in the system — whether guard or prisoner — undeserving of love. We are all fully human, broken in our own ways, yet broken in the same way: by a lack of love. He finishes by saying that love is how people should the next seven years. "How will you spend the next seven? he asks. -ROSS ULBRICHT/MEDIUM |  |     | | | A MESSAGE FROM LINKEDIN LEARNING | | | Learn In-demand Technology Skills To Achieve Your Goals Stay on top of rapidly changing technology advancements with LinkedIn Learning online courses taught by real-world expert instructors. From certification preparation training to learning the fundamentals on topics such as Network Administration, Cloud Computing and more. Start Your Free Trial 
| | 3. Catherine Coley is the CEO of Binance.US, a position she has held since July 2019. In her role, she is tasked with the job of expanding the platform into North America. | In today's Follow Friday feature, we delve into Coley's experience, her plans for 2020, and the topics that she often tweets about. To read the full story (and all of our other great content throughout the week), click below to sign up for Inside Cryptocurrency Premium! UPGRADE TO PREMIUM  | | | | 4. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has granted license exemptions to a number of crypto companies for a limited period. In an announcement, the country's central bank and the financial regulatory authority said that Binance Asia Services, Coinbase Singapore, and Ripple Labs Singapore, among others, can provide digital payment token services. Without the exemption, the aforementioned companies would be required to hold a license under the Payment Services Act (PS Act). However, they can now provide digital payment token services until July 28, 2020, as per the announcement. Other companies such as BitGo Singapore and Gemini Trust Company have been granted a longer exemption period, having until January 28, 2021, to provide account issuance service, domestic money transfer service, and inward cross-border money transfer services. The regulator said: Please note that these entities are not licensed under the PS Act to provide the specific payment services, but are allowed to continue to provide the specific payment services. It added: "The exemption will cease after the specified period; or if the entity submits a licence application under the PS Act, on the date that the application is approved or rejected by MAS, or withdrawn by the applicant." -MAS |  | | | | | 8. Veteran gold trader Peter Schiff can't help himself. He's at it again with Bitcoin. Taking to Twitter yesterday, Schiff said: Congratulations Bitcoin hodlers. It looks like #Bitcoin may actually be living up to its status as a non-correlated asset after all. Every asset class is rallying today except Bitcoin! In response, Changpeng Zhao, CEO of crypto exchange Binance, said: "Peter, thank you. Suggest you learn how to use the binance.com homepage." Attaching an image along with his reply, Zhao showed that coins such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, and Binance Coin were all in the green, representing a one to nine percent rise. -@PETERSCHIFF/TWITTER |  | | | | | 10. Crypto exchange Coinbase has announced the support of decentralized finance (DeFi) apps such as Compound and dYdX through its Coinbase Wallet. In a blog post, Sid Coelho-Prabhu, Coinbase Wallet lead, said that users can lend out their crypto and earn interest at rates ranging up to six percent APR. Coelho-Prabhu added that thousands of Coinbase Wallets have already deposited millions of dollars into DeFi apps. Previously, users had accessed these applications through the wallet's built in decentralized application (dapp) browser or via WalletLink on desktop. However, as Coelho-Prabhu pointed out, it wasn't easy for users to compare rates or view balances. With today's announcement, we're making it even easier to use these DeFi apps by integrating them into the Wallet experience. You can now compare different rates from providers, easily deposit your crypto without opening a web browser, and view your balances on a simple, unified dashboard, Coelho-Prabhu added. -COINBASE |  | | | | | This newsletter was written and curated by Rebecca Campbell. She has been writing and reporting on various industries for the past 10 years, more specifically tech in the last three. Connect with her on Twitter. Edited by Beth Duckett, staff writer at Inside. | | | | | | | |
