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Daily Crunch: Thousands of Google Play users download Android banking trojan

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Lido wants to help stake Ethereum : I won’t get into the proof of work versus proof of stake argument here, so suffice it to say that more eth needs to get staked for the blockchain to evolve. Per our reporting, Lido “is the market leader for Ethereum liquid staking” and just raised $70 million from a16z. TechCrunch Experts.

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Daily Crunch: India’s Central Bank says cryptocurrency ‘may even be worse’ than Ponzi schemes

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We have a busy slate for you today, including news sure to annoy the blockchain faithful, new funds, Facebook’s latest rebrand and more. India continues to debate the fate of cryptocurrencies : A nation’s regulatory and banking bodies debating blockchain technology and its related tokens is a daily occurrence. PST, subscribe here.

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Daily Crunch: Twitter tells GitHub to remove proprietary source code and help them ID who posted it

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Recruiting the founders : Catherine reports that Recruiting marketplace Paraform gets backing from Primer Sazze and Twitch founders. Three more from the TC+ team: Crypto is the ticket : Ticketmaster sucks, Anna concludes, and wonders if blockchains can be the cure. Avoid these 7 mistakes. Go together!