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Bitcoin Daily: Lloyd’s Now Covers Crypto In eWallets; U.S. Treasury Adds Hacker Bitcoin Addresses To Blacklist

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Lloyd’s of London , the insurance firm, is supporting a new policy that protects digital currency held in digital wallets from hackers, Coindesk reported on Monday (March 2). The policy is reportedly a new insurance type that has a limit that changes with the price fluctuations of covered digital currency assets.

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Startup Roundup: A Is For Automation

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The whole point of startups is to do things differently than mainstream players, and that is exactly what these companies are doing with automation, interoperability and digital currency initiatives. Why should organizations say “yes” to purchase order matching and “no” to cryptocurrencies?

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Treasury To Add Certain Cryptocurrency Addresses To Sanctions List

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The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)] may add digital currency addresses to the SDN [specially designated nationals] List to alert the public of specific digital currency identifiers associated with a blocked person,” the government agency said in the guidance notice.