CRYPTO NEWS FOR 12/17/20

DeFi Prime wrote a "Persons of the Year 2020"

https://defiprime.com/defi-person-2020

Robinhood settles out of Court

https://cointelegraph.com/news/trading-app-robinhood-settles-sec-charges-for-65-million

A BTC Analyst is calling for $55K next

https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-hits-23k-as-on-chain-analyst-says-55k-is-the-next-landmark

IRS is watching everyone's crypto holdings

https://cointelegraph.com/news/irs-tax-form-question-leaves-us-crypto-users-confused-and-concerned

Salvation Army now accepts BTC donations (I wonder what the Chief Investment Officer for the Salvation Army does with the BTC?)

https://www.coindesk.com/salvation-army-now-accepts-bitcoin-ether-donations-in-us

Russian Officials must tell Moscow about their crypto holdings

http://chainb.com/?P=Cont&id=28173

Bitcoin Lightning Network is coming to Kraken

https://blog.kraken.com/post/7225/a-need-for-speed-kraken-to-launch-bitcoin-lightning-⚡%EF%B8%8F-integration-in-2021/

IDEO lists their DeFi investments and it's a cool portfolio

https://medium.com/ideo-colab/ideo-colab-launches-collaborative-defi-incubator-residency-program-a32ddd6e9f36

Last day of the Gitcoin Grants GR8 Program

https://gitcoin.co/hackathon/gr8/projects/?

zkSync is a new organization I found

https://wallet.zksync.io

The GRT Token is alive and The Graph now has a live dapp

https://network.thegraph.com

Polkastarter got an additional 2 pools yesterday

https://www.polkastarter.com/pools

TWEETS

Must-read, technical, mega-thread on DeFi

Good ETH Metrics

https://blog.alphafinance.io/inside-alphax/

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