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PortuguêsPresident-elect Joe Biden may name former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chair Gary Gensler to become Deputy Treasury Secretary, CNBC reported Wednesday. Gensler, who is currently heading up Biden’s financial oversight…
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 ReadingA billion-dollar Australian investment management firm has gotten into bitcoin, citing that the cryptocurrency is superior to gold. Many of the firm’s clients have been asking about investing in bitcoin.…
Continue ReadingCoinbase cuts margin trading. Binance sweeps out U.S. customers. OKEx offers rebates to clients affected by its five-week pause. Top shelf Tax changeCoinbase will no longer send customers 1099-Ks, the…
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 ReadingThe Libra Association, the organization developing the Facebook-backed cryptocurrency project libra, has hired a former banking regulator and industry veteran as general counsel for its payments subsidiary. The hire, Saumya…
Continue ReadingA billion-dollar Australian investment management firm has gotten into bitcoin, citing that the cryptocurrency is superior to gold. Many of the firm’s clients have been asking about investing in bitcoin.…
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 ReadingActivity in bitcoin’s options market shows investors are eyeing more gains for the top cryptocurrency, which is now just 2.8% below a record high. Bitcoin‘s one-month implied volatility, which is…
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…
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Continue ReadingA poorly organized cryptocurrency mining farm has caused a fire in an apartment in St. Petersburg, Russia, and injured the operator, according to a 78.ru report citing the Ministry of…
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 ReadingOn November 19, Hive.one, a project that maps the community clusters of Bitcoin and Ethereum social status using mathematics, announced the launch of a new algorithm version. Since the last…
Continue ReadingRegulatory responses to private, “global” stablecoins like Libra need to take into account the potential of the technology in payments, according to economists working at the Bank for International Settlements…
Continue ReadingSean Ono Lennon, the son of the Beatles’ John Lennon, says bitcoin gives him optimism amid the “ocean of destruction” this year. He believes that the cryptocurrency empowers individuals the…
Continue ReadingGold Bullion International co-founder Dan Tapiero believes that it’s only a matter of time before Bitcoin’s price surges into the six-figure threshold. Speaking to Anthony Pompliano on the Pomp Podcast,…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has decided to discontinue sending customers 1099-Ks, the U.S. tax form which led the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to mistakenly think traders had underreported their gains. The…
Continue ReadingCrypto exchange Coinbase plans to end all margin trading effective Nov. 25, 2020, due to recent regulations by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The San Francisco-based trading platform announced…
Continue ReadingOKEx, likely trying to forestall a mass exodus of funds when its five-weeks-long freeze on withdrawals lifts this week, on Tuesday said it will offer a mix of compensation and…
Continue ReadingThe anonymously operated yield farm, Pickle Finance, has cut a deal to merge with Yearn, the latter’s lead developer, Andre Cronje, posted on Medium Tuesday. “Pickle and Yearn developers have…
Continue ReadingFormer Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen is likely to become the next U.S. Treasury Secretary. The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that President-elect Joe Biden plans to nominate Yellen in…
Continue ReadingMore than 500,000 ETH have been locked and loaded into Ethereum 2.0’s deposit contract, kick-starting the network’s major, multi-year development phase. JPMorgan analysts say institutions are piling into bitcoin. And…
Continue ReadingGazprombank (Switzerland), an arm of the bank owned by Russian energy giant Gazprom, has carried out the first client transactions as part of its new bitcoin services. Announced Tuesday, the…
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 ReadingXRP has chalked up an impressive rally to two-year highs in the last few days, and an imminent airdrop may be driving the gains. Trading around $0.70 at the time…
Continue ReadingCryptocurrency intelligence firm Ciphertrace has filed two patent applications for tools and systems to trace monero transactions. The company aims to enable the detection of criminal uses of privacy coins…
Continue ReadingThe smart contract required for triggering the first phase of Ethereum 2.0 has enough funds to begin activation of Ethereum’s most ambitious upgrade yet, which will radically shift Ethereum’s economic…
Continue ReadingWhile digital currency markets have increased significantly in value a number of crypto asset proponents are wondering how far the next bull run will take them. For instance, the last…
Continue ReadingFor the second year in a row, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning cryptocurrency investors they underreported their holdings. But it may be another false alarm. “Dozens of individuals”…
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 ReadingFormer Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen is set to become the next head of the U.S. Treasury Department. Yellen was one of three frontrunners to get the nod, the Washington…
Continue ReadingThe U.S. government is using Circle’s USDC to bypass Venezuelan blockades. Chainalaysis is looking to raise $100 million in fresh capital at a $1 billion valuation. Billions of dollars from…
Continue ReadingA major online poker website has been buying millions of dollars of bitcoin every day to meet demand from players wanting to cash out in bitcoin. This amounts to $100…
Continue ReadingA metric from bitcoin’s perpetual futures market suggests some traders may have become overleveraged during the recent rally to above $18,000. The average level of the “funding rate” across major…
Continue ReadingThe U.S.-based company Digital Asset Investment Management (Daim) has announced the launch of a company-sponsored 401(k) retirement plan that allocates up to 10% in bitcoin. The plan is an ERISA…
Continue ReadingBlockchain analytics firm CipherTrace has filed two patent applications it claims will assist authorities in tracking transactions made with the monero (XMR) cryptocurrency. According to an announcement on Friday, the…
Continue ReadingThe son of Beatles legend John Lennon has praised bitcoin for its ability to help individuals transcend politics and world events. Sean Ono Lennon, speaking on the Orange Pill Podcast…
Continue ReadingAmericans are anxiously waiting to hear if they will receive a second round of stimulus checks as many are suffering due to the coronavirus-led economic crisis. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin…
Continue ReadingOn November 15, 2020, the Bitcoin Cash blockchain experienced a network upgrade and a bifurcation of the chain as well. While the Bitcoin Cash network continued on smoothly, the ABC…
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