United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase named Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto in its recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a direct listing on the stock market. According to…
Continue ReadingAccording to an announcement from Chinese mining equipment supplier Ebang, the mining firm’s board passed a resolution on Thursday to establish a Litecoin (LTC) and Dogecoin (DOGE) mining business. Ebang…
Continue ReadingWith GameStop’s stock more than doubling in price over the last two days, CNBC’s Jim Cramer is proposing the brick-and-mortar company change its business model to be more inclusive of…
Continue ReadingIn an announcement on Wednesday, VersaBank said it plans to launch a digital currency called VCAD, which will reportedly be backed by Canadian dollars deposited with the bank. The Canadian…
Continue ReadingWith roughly 100 million members, the church representing the dominant religion in Russia has no plans to accept cryptocurrency donations or offerings. According to a Q&A streamed on YouTube by…
Continue ReadingGlobal money transfer service MoneyGram says it has officially suspended its partnership with blockchain payments firm Ripple amid the latter’s litigation with the SEC. According to MoneyGram’s quarterly outlook, the…
Continue ReadingA driver who held $5 in Bitcoin (BTC) as a tip for his pizza delivery services has reportedly resurfaced after seven years. According to a post from Redditor btcbible, the…
Continue ReadingBlockchain-based payments firm Ripple Labs has now registered a business in Wyoming. According to records from the Wyoming Secretary of State, Ripple Markets WY LLC’s status as a local business…
Continue ReadingWith only two full days of trading under its belt, the first Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund in North America reached more than $400 million in volume and is expected to…
Continue ReadingCrypto expert Bobby Lee’s early predictions on the price of Bitcoin have proven to be quite accurate during the latest bull run. In a tweet from December 2018, the Ballet…
Continue ReadingMicrosoft co-founder Bill Gates is the latest prominent tech figure to seemingly try to stay out of the fray when it comes to questions about Bitcoin adoption. In an interview…
Continue ReadingIn retrospect, it was inevitable: A team of blockchain developers has forked GitHub and come up with a system for collaborating on open source software. There’s even a decentralized finance…
Continue ReadingGetting crypto exchanges across the world to plug into each other and share sensitive customer data is proving to be a complex problem. Nonetheless, firms have to show real progress…
Continue ReadingEvery asset that moves fast attracts the B-word. But what the last few decades of research in finance has taught us is that it’s not so easy to spot financial…
Continue ReadingA retailer of specialty teas and baked goods based in Hunan, China is expanding its business into cryptocurrency mining. According to a press release on Thursday, Urban Tea Inc. has…
Continue ReadingRick Rieder, chief investment officer at BlackRock Financial Management, hinted that the firm ha already invested a percentage of its portfolio into crypto. In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box…
Continue ReadingFollowing a Tuesday announcement that MicroStrategy would be planning to buy $600 million in Bitcoin through a sale of convertible notes, the business intelligence firm has upped the ante by…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, which is preparing to trade publicly in the next few months, is being valued at $77 billion, based on trading of the company’s privately held shares on…
Continue ReadingCrypto services firm Diginex has partnered with electronic trading firm Itiviti to let institutions trade crypto and equities under one roof. The new platform is called Diginex Access. The firm…
Continue ReadingInvestors in the 2017 Paragon Coin token sale want their money back, but they can’t find the celebrity couple behind the operation. “The attorneys representing the defendants have withdrawn as…
Continue ReadingA small scale study of financial executives has found that 5% of companies intend to invest in Bitcoin (BTC) as a corporate asset this year, with a further 11% stating…
Continue ReadingSBI Holdings, a Japanese financial services firm, is to lead an ongoing strategic fundraising round for Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum. Sygnum, which holds a Swiss banking license, said Tuesday…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s march onto corporate balance sheets could be hampered by the crypto’s legendary volatility, according to a survey by Gartner released Tuesday that found only 5% of business executives intended…
Continue ReadingThe man who once said “Bitcoin will never hit 50K” has doubled down on the bearish prediction that Bitcoin (BTC) will eventually go to zero. Back in 2019, CNBC host…
Continue ReadingBasketball players, pop singers and now high-end vinyl toys – lots of different groups are trying out non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Ethereum as a new way to monetize. Superplastic is…
Continue ReadingThe Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has approved Canada’s second bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). Evolve’s bitcoin ETF was conditionally approved on Tuesday to trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the company…
Continue ReadingOut of the 160 cryptocurrency exchanges analyzed in a recent report, half control roughly 85% of the total market share. According to a CryptoCompare Research report published today, exchanges that…
Continue ReadingEleven years post-Bitcoin, six years post-launch of Ethereum, eight days after that announcement, the first signs of crypto product-market fit are before us. Michael Seibel (the co-Founder at Twitch and…
Continue ReadingI have spent my entire professional career devising novel ways to invest in real estate, and recently I have been spending a lot of time in Decentraland. For many years,…
Continue ReadingOsprey Fund’s bitcoin trust is now available to retail investors via the over-the-counter (OTC) market, the company announced Tuesday. The fund was formed two years ago, and Osprey applied to…
Continue ReadingCrypto custodian Fireblocks and payments platform First Digital Assets Group are providing connectivity and support to diem, the global stablecoin and payments system formerly known as libra. Fireblocks and First…
Continue ReadingDecentralized insurance alternative Nexus Mutual received a $2.7 million boost to its foundation treasury, the not-for-profit umbrella organization charged with selling NXM tokens to fund core development of the protocol.…
Continue ReadingPyctor, which provides the so-called “plumbing” or infrastructure that allow other platforms to handle their crypto and digital assets after trades have been completed, is in the process of raising…
Continue ReadingU.S.-listed Chinese sports lottery firm 500.com (NYSE: WBAI) said Tuesday it’s inked a share-swap deal to acquire the cryptocurrency mining pool business of Bitdeer Technologies, including BTC.com. According to an…
Continue ReadingLondon-based cryptocurrency exchange Exmo suffered a distributed denial-of-service attack on Monday, causing the platform’s servers to become unavailable. In a tweet on Monday, Exmo reported that hackers had targeted the exchange…
Continue ReadingSBI Holdings, a major Japanese financial services firm, is currently in discussions with foreign financial firms to establish a cryptocurrency joint venture. SBI’s founder and CEO Yoshitaka Kitao said his…
Continue ReadingBlockchain incubator and investment firm Blockchains LLC is stepping up its plans to build a smart city in the Nevada desert east of Reno. In an interview with the Associated…
Continue ReadingHedge fund manager Arca is stepping up its campaign to overhaul Gnosis, claiming the decentralized exchange and prediction market platform has deviated from its original mission. The post describes Gnosis’…
Continue ReadingListia is discontinuing work on the Ink protocol, a cryptocurrency built for marketplaces, CoinDesk has learned. The project was funded with a $15 million token sale for the XNK ERC-20…
Continue ReadingUber has denied that it is currently integrating bitcoin as a payment option for its on-demand mobile ride-sharing services. Suspicions regarding a potential announcement first began to circulate on social…
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