29 Crypto Exchanges Survive New Regulation in South Korea, 37 Exchanges Must Shut Down
The deadline for crypto exchanges and service providers in South Korea to meet requirements to stay open under the new regulation has passed. Twenty-nine cryptocurrency exchanges met the deadline to continue operations but only four of them can offer trading in Korean...
Northern Data AG Acquires Bitcoin Miner Bitfield — 33,000 Miners Gained in Stock-for-Stock Deal
On Monday, the high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure provider and bitcoin mining firm Northern Data AG announced the acquisition of the bitcoin mining operation Bitfield N.V. in a stock-for-stock deal. Northern Data says the company will obtain 33,000 of the...
Virgil Griffith, Ethereum, and the Danger of Radical Transparency
In Venice Beach, Los Angeles, in early 2018, I met an amusing, diminutive man named Virgil Griffith. He had a shock of light brown hair and spoke with a kind of fuzzy squeak, like a Muppet. He seemed pathologically curious. Nobody I had ever encountered better...
Digital dollar advocate will retire as Dallas Fed president
At a November 2020 virtual conference, Rob Kaplan said "it is critical that the Fed focuses on developing a digital currency in the coming months and years." Rob Kaplan, the president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas will step down...
‘Solcial’ Raises $2.9M to Build Censorship-Free Social Media on Solana
The Solana ecosystem is getting a social network.Solcial has raised $2.9 million to scale in a round led by Alameda Research with Solana Foundation, Rarestone Capital, GBV, Shift Capital and Noia Capital participating.Around 5% of Solcial’s planned SLC tokens are...
Facebook Is Spending $50 Million to Build Metaverse—'Responsibly'
Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg said in June that the social media giant is on a path to become “a metaverse company.” Now the firm is putting its money where its mouth is, revealing plans to spend $50 million over the next two years to help bring the...
Master Ventures Adds Polker (PKR) to Portfolio as Play-to-Earn Project Gains Traction
Malta, 27 Sep 2021 – Master Ventures have announced that they have added Polker into their highly regarded investment portfolio. The decision from Master Ventures to invest in the Polker comes as the platform prepares to launch its beta play-to-earn game to the...
‘Who Holds All the Bitcoin’ List Debunked — Without Cryptographic Proof No BTC Ownership Claim Holds Water
A web portal that displays a list of alleged owners of all the bitcoin in the world has been shared a great deal since China cracked down on crypto trading last week. The web portal claims that the Chinese government owns 194,775 bitcoin that reportedly stem from the...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Traders Cautious After China Crypto Ban, DeFi Outperforms
Bitcoin was slightly lower on Monday as traders remained cautious about regulatory crackdowns from China and elsewhere.The cryptocurrency was trading at about $43,000 at press time and is roughly flat over the past 24 hours. Analysts are monitoring blockchain data for...
Google, the most popular Bitcoin trend indicator, turns 23
Since the introduction of Bitcoin, Google has become an excellent popularity indicator for cryptocurrencies. Google, the leading indicator used to track the popularity of Bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies, celebrated its 23rd anniversary on Sept. 27,...
Traders say Bitcoin’s bullish bias will only be confirmed by a close above $44K
Bitcoin needs to flip $43,600 to support in order to see bullish continuation and on-chain data signals that BTC accumulation continues to increase. The fallout from China’s ongoing crackdown on the crypto sector has led to uncertainty finding its way back into the...
3 Takes About China’s Crypto Ban That Are Wrong
Following China’s surprise move to make crypto mining and crypto trading services explicitly illegal within its borders, there is still much we don’t know about the real impacts. But, of course, that’s not stopping plenty of commentators from peddling simplified...
Law Decoded: China FUD and false dichotomies, Sept. 20–27
Many in the crypto space are calling for the U.S. to assert its foundational principles by implementing crypto policies in opposition to China. In the wake of yet another iteration of China’s enduring crackdown on cryptocurrency, a particularly influential narrative...
Coinrule’s Automated Crypto Trading Platform Attracts Major Investors
Crypto trading platform Coinrule garnered over $2 million in a seed fund investment round of big name investors. Early on September 27th, the crypto startup Coinrule announced the finalization of a $2.2 million round of seed funding. The startup attracted...
Morgan Stanley Is Bullish on 'Crypto Bank' Silvergate
While many financial institutions have looked askance at cryptocurrency, Morgan Stanley—the fourth-largest investment bank in the world by revenue—has actively flirted with it. In a research note today, Morgan Stanley recommended stock in Silvergate, which provides...
Coinbase users can choose to deposit paychecks directly to accounts
Customers will have the option to deposit "as much or as little" of their paychecks as they want in the feature rolling out in the next few weeks. Coinbase will soon allow United States businesses to deposit employees’ paychecks directly into accounts at the...
Atari Founder Is Launching Augmented Reality NFTs on Ethereum
As the founder of legendary video game company Atari, Nolan Bushnell helped bring arcade gaming to the masses. And now with the advent of NFTs, he plans to bring some of those formative early machines into homes as digital, augmented reality collectibles. Today,...
Bitfinex paid a colossal $23M fee to send $100K of USDT
In what is presumed as a technical error, popular crypto exchange Bitfinex have paid a seismic $23.7 million dollars in gas fee for a comparatively nominal $100K transaction. Crypto exchange Bitfinex completed a highly consequential transaction today when sending...
Revolut to Launch Crypto Token: Sources
Revolut, the fintech company with a $33 billion valuation that offers cryptocurrency buying as part of its services, is looking to launch its own cryptographic token, according to two people with knowledge of the plans.One of the people CoinDesk spoke with said...
Price analysis 9/27: BTC, ETH, ADA, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOT, DOGE, AVAX, LUNA
Bitcoin and most major altcoins have recovered from last week’s sell-off, but they are still facing selling at higher levels, suggesting that the market could remain range-bound for a few days. Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) recovered a large part of the losses that...
Nobody Knows Who Controls the Keys to El Salvador's Bitcoin: BlockBank Exec
El Salvador officially recognized Bitcoin as legal tender earlier this month, but many questions remain unanswered, including one all important question for security purposes: Who controls the private keys to the country’s Bitcoin stash? “There are so many things...
Major Crypto Exchanges Cut Ties With Chinese Users After China’s Latest Crackdown on Cryptocurrency
Major cryptocurrency exchanges are cutting ties with users in China following the latest crypto crackdown announcement by the Chinese government. Huobi has stopped letting new users in China sign up for its services while Binance has blocked account registrations...
Did China Finally Ban Bitcoin for Real?
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeToday on “The Breakdown,” NLW looks at two major recent stories.Twitter has added bitcoin tipping features. The features take advantage of the Lightning Network powered by Strike and has started rolling out to...
Morgan Stanley doubles exposure to Bitcoin through Grayscale shares
The investment firm has increased its shares of GBTC by more than 105% since April. Major U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley has more than doubled its shares of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust since April.According to a report from the U.S. Securities and Exchange...
Analyst says $42K must hold to keep Bitcoin price from sweeping its swing low
Bitcoin needs to hold $42,000 or it risks sliding as low as $32,000, according to crypto trader Eric Krown. Bitcoin bulls continued to battle with bears near the $43,000 support level on Sept. 27 as China’s crackdown on all things cryptocurrency put a halt to last...
Polkadot (DOT) Readies For Breakout While Ecosystem Tokens Flourish
Polkadot (DOT) is following an ascending support line and has bounced at the $29 horizontal support area. Ankr (ANKR) has broken out from a long-term descending parallel channel and validated it as support afterwards. Celer Network (CELR) reached an all-time high...
7 Nights in Pyongyang: Inside the North Korean Trip That Got Ethereum’s Virgil Griffith Arrested
I grew up in Germany, but I was born in northeastern China, whose porous border let in thousands of North Korean defectors. Higher in the hierarchy, some of the country’s elite studied at my parents’ alma mater. I’ve heard stories of how those students had the sort of...
FalconX Eyes Miami for Expansion as CEO Plans Hiring Push
FalconX expects to grow to roughly 160 employees from 90 over the next six months, CEO Raghu Yarlagadda said.He said the institutional crypto exchange is evaluating Miami as a potential location for expansion after several firms have opened offices in the...
Bearish Bitcoin fractal with 78% success rate flashes as BTC drops below $43.5K
The flagship cryptocurrency closed the previous week below its 21-week exponential moving average for the 19th time in history, triggering additional selloff risks. Last week's drop in Bitcoin (BTC) that saw BTC price falling from $47,358 to $43,178 has sparked fears...
Crypto Funds Drew Most New Money in 3 Weeks Even as China Cracked Down
Investors pumped a total of $95 million into digital asset products last week, more than double the prior week’s pace, according to a CoinShares weekly report.With the headwinds that digital assets have faced recently, such as the widened China ban, the continued...
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