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PortuguêsWith the price of Bitcoin continuing to test support around $19,000, Galaxy Digital founder and CEO Mike Novogratz recommends HODLing until 2025. In a Yahoo Finance Live interview published on…
Continue ReadingGalaxy Digital’s bitcoin funds raised $58.7 million in their first year as predominately high-dollar buyers staked their claim to the surging cryptocurrency. The institutional fund in particular appears to capture…
Continue ReadingWhen it comes to the energy- and capital-intensive process of mining cryptocurrency, people tend to think of China, where about 65% of global hash power is located. But like many…
Continue ReadingPayments company Square said Tuesday it will buy Credit Karma’s tax business for $50 million and integrate it into its Cash App, a major hub for bitcoin sales. Cash App…
Continue ReadingVanEck, the New York-based investment management firm with around $50 billion in AUM, has launched a bitcoin exchange-traded-note (ETN) that for trading on the Deutsche Boerse Xetra. Listed on the…
Continue ReadingThe Australian Border Force (ABF), the country’s customs and border protection agency, wants to simplify cross-border trade with Singapore using blockchain technology. In collaboration with Singapore Customs and the Singapore…
Continue ReadingThe chief executive of Monex Group, a financial services firm based in Tokyo, believes central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) would be a boon for the cryptocurrency market. As reported by…
Continue ReadingWith Bitcoin within $1,000 of its all-time high price of $19,891 set in December 2017, trading on major crypto exchange Binance is also hitting new heights with more than $37…
Continue ReadingU.S. crypto exchange Coinbase Pro announced today that customers would not be able to use margin trading on the platform beginning on Wednesday. According to the Coinbase blog, Chief Legal…
Continue ReadingIDEX is betting three chains are better than one. The non-custodial cryptocurrency exchange, whose operations run on the Ethereum blockchain, announced Tuesday it plans to expand to the Binance Smart…
Continue ReadingPendal Group, an Australian Securities Exchange-listed investment manager with over A$100 billion (US$73.6 billion) in assets under management, is getting into bitcoin. As reported by the Australian Financial Review on…
Continue ReadingCrypto.com is trying to bulk up its Maltese financial licenses in search of a competitive edge across Europe. The Hong Kong-based crypto firm received preliminary approval from the Malta Financial…
Continue ReadingAustralia-based West Coast Aquaculture (WCA) has completed an A$5 million (US$3.65 million) initial public offering, becoming the first firm in the nation to use cryptocurrency for its capital raise. In…
Continue ReadingAccording to data provided to Cointelegraph by CipherTrace, roughly 85-90% of crypto owners fall prey to common crypto theft schemes, including phishing traps. How can the average crypto user identify…
Continue ReadingCrypto analytics firm CipherTrace announced on Friday that it had filed two patents for technology capable of tracing transactions for privacy coin Monero. In a Nov. 20 blog from CipherTrace,…
Continue ReadingIn what might be an important step towards the maturation of the decentralized insurance space, a claim was filed yesterday with DeFi insurance protocol Cover following the $19 million Dai…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency firm Pantera Capital has raised $134 million for its bitcoin fund, according to a form D filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Formed in 2013, the Pantera…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency assets would be treated like financial products under South Africa’s Financial Advisory and Intermediary Services (FAIS) Act, under a draft declaration by a financial regulator. “The Declaration would have…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency investigation firm Chainalysis expects to raise $100 million venture capital at a $1 billion valuation as early as next week, the company told Forbes. The Series C is being…
Continue ReadingMicroStrategy executives are on the hunt for blockchain experts who could help the publicly traded firm build a suite of bitcoin data services. Exactly what those services might be, when…
Continue ReadingA new crypto derivatives exchange, Globe, is looking to step up to the plate following crackdowns on BitMEX, the growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) and a surge in the price…
Continue ReadingAfter running a year-long test, Digital Asset Investment Management (DAiM), a U.S.-based crypto investment advisor, has launched what it says are the first company-sponsored retirement plans supporting bitcoin. DAiM will…
Continue ReadingMingxing “Star” Xu, founder of OKCoin and CEO of OK Group has resurfaced after being detained by Chinese police. According to a report by Bloomberg Thursday, Xu appeared on a…
Continue ReadingWinning Poker Network, an online network that supports numerous online poker websites across the world, has reported a surge in demand for Bitcoin payouts. In an Nov. 19 report from…
Continue ReadingDecentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator DEX.AG has raised $3.1 million and is rebranding to Slingshot. Born out of the Concourse Open Community, the same group that created decentralized finance (DeFi) rankings…
Continue ReadingThe CryptoKitties-meets-Pokemon blockchain game Axie Infinity has raised $860,000 in a strategic sale of its AXS governance token. The funding round, led by Delphi Digital, is meant to help further…
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Continue ReadingMarket manipulation is one of the main concerns the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has cited in rejecting a number of bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) applications. Solidus Labs, a…
Continue ReadingBitcoiners are crying foul at former billion-dollar hedge fund manager Jesse Felder’s “inaccurate” hot take blog post about Bitcoin today in which he claims the crypto asset “doesn’t make sense…
Continue ReadingBerlin-based non-fungible token (NFT) platform Mintbase has closed a $1 million seed funding round. The round, led by Chinese venture capital firm Sino Global and with participation from D1 Ventures,…
Continue ReadingBinance Holdings Limited sued Forbes Media LLC for defamation Wednesday over a story last month that purported to reveal regulatory evasion tactics employed by the global cryptocurrency exchange. The suit,…
Continue ReadingAfter finding a fit for digital collectibles outside the blockchain realm, Genies is bringing its customizable 3D avatars to a partnership with Dapper Labs. The collabo with the team behind…
Continue ReadingThe Financial Action Task Force (FATF) needs an entirely new approach when it comes to policing crypto, according to Sian Jones, the driving force behind much of the sector’s anti-money…
Continue ReadingFireblocks has closed a $30 million Series B funding round to serve more of the crypto sector’s biggest trading firms. The funding round was led by Paradigm and joined by…
Continue ReadingEthereum Classic wants to play in the decentralized finance (DeFi) space of the blockchain it contentiously split from in 2016. Announced Wednesday, Ethereum Classic Labs, the ETC blockchain’s biggest supporter,…
Continue ReadingMexican billionaire Ricardo Salinas Pliego just declared 10% of his portfolio is now tied up in bitcoin. Announced in a tweet on Wednesday, Mexico’s second-wealthiest man responded to questions that…
Continue ReadingIn a Twitter thread posted on Tuesday, Dalio stated he believed that Bitcoin (BTC) was not an effective medium of exchange nor a store of value due to its volatility.…
Continue ReadingConsenSys is adding dapp development platform Truffle Suite back to its lineup of Ethereum tools. ConsenSys Chief Strategy Officer Simon Morris said Tuesday the Ethereum-focused firm has acquired the team…
Continue ReadingTrading platform Robinhood Markets has begin searching for bank partners to assist it in an initial public offering that could be held in early 2021, according to Bloomberg. Bloomberg’s sources…
Continue ReadingSomewhere between the Coinbase hawk and the institutional bitcoin whale lies a growing class of high-end retail investors pushing their money managers to join the bull run. Their calls grew…
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