Grayscale Investments now controls 2.4% of the current BTC supply
Crypto fund manager Grayscale Investments has increased the assets under management in its Bitcoin Trust by more than $180 million over the past week. According […]
One of Hal Finney’s lost contributions to Bitcoin Core to be ‘resurrected’
In a February 8, 2011 post on Bitcointalk, Finney said that reading a book titled “Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography” by Hankerson, Menezes, and Vanstone, […]
Crypto regulations in the United Kingdom: Are we there yet?
Policymaking in the United Kingdom is typically reactionary, and this is no less true in the context of the crypto-asset industry. Reactionary policymaking means that […]
The UN’s ‘decade of delivery’ needs blockchain to succeed
When the Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, were conceived back in 2012, blockchain technology was in its early days. Few could have foreseen the trajectory […]
A minster’s look at regulation and innovation: A necessity to strike a balance
Repeatedly, proponents of disruptive technologies have proven that regulation and innovation have an immense potential to actualize a mutually beneficial existence. The often delicate relationship […]
Law Decoded: Transformations in crypto exchanges and traditional institutions, Sept. 18-25
Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s note The final scene of […]
Square CEO Jack Dorsey says Bitcoin holds the keys to security
The Oslo Freedom Forum, an event-based entity under the wing of the Human Rights Foundation, or HRF, digitally hosted Square CEO Jack Dorsey for a […]
Dave Portnoy meets Pomp: ‘Bitcoin is just one big Ponzi scheme’
Popular day trader and founder of Barstool Sports Dave Portnoy revealed that he bought $1.25 million worth of Bitcoin even though he thinks its “just […]
Chinese state-endorsed public chain to act as a global DeFi bridge, says Conflux Founder
Conflux Network, a permissionless blockchain project which is endorsed by the Chinese state, told Cointelegraph on Sept. 22 that the project has officially launched its […]
Finance Redefined: Uniswap’s bang ends in whimper, Sept. 16-23
The biggest event of this week was definitely the sudden release of Uniswap’s token, UNI, which enriched many DeFi users by at least $1200 each. […]
WTF happened in 1971 (and why the f**k it matters so much right now)
If you’ve ventured on to Crypto Twitter this year, you may have seen a tweet from the meme account WTF Happened in 1971? Created in […]
Revealing crypto exchange’s physical location was not harmful, court rules
A federal judge has ruled that an employee who revealed the location of a major crypto exchange did not violate its trade secrets. According to […]
Colombian gov’t invites companies to trial its crypto transaction framework
The government of Colombia has approved on September 22 a pilot program that calls companies to test crypto transactions until December 31 within the regulatory […]
Blockchain tech is helping to reduce the impact of deforestation in Brazil
Major meat processing company JBS S.A., has repeatedly come under fire for allegedly contributing to the illegal deforestation of the Amazon rainforest. They are now […]
SEC vs. Telegram: Part 3 — The extraterritorial reach of US securities laws
As mentioned in the first and second parts of this story, on March 24, 2020, in a widely reported and closely followed decision, Judge Peter […]
Bloomberg suggests that Bitcoin should be $15,000 according to this adoption metric
6262 Total views 33 Total shares News According to the Bloomberg crypto newsletter, a key on-chain indicator suggests that Bitcoin (BTC) is currently greatly undervalued. […]
Rise of DeFi wars? Uniswap’s UNI token airdrop starts a crypto rivalry
Uniswap’s new UNI token has created a buzz in the DeFi world, with over 13,000 users claiming their tokens within three hours of its launch. […]
Could holding 0.28 BTC put you in the 1% wealth bracket?
A large portion of Bitcoin’s (BTC) value lies within its limited 21 million coin supply, which means ownership of a small portion could lead to […]
Bitcoin FUD and negative social sentiment typically precede a bounce
On-chain analytics provider Santiment asserts that Bitcoin and crypto assets tend to bounce when social sentiment indicates there is a lot of fear, uncertainty and […]
You won’t believe the depths to which crypto scammers on Twitter are willing to sink
Last Friday night, crypto YouTuber Ivan on Tech messaged me on Twitter. Shortly into our conversation, he graciously offered me an investment opportunity in “Bitcoin […]
Yam plans protocol overhaul despite first successful V3 rebase
Yam, the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector’s original food-themed clone protocol, has successfully completed its first rebase since its V3 relaunch. Yam’s relaunch on September 18 […]
Booming African crypto adoption drives concerns over regulation
2020 has seen an acceleration in African crypto adoption, with the continent emerging as the second-largest region for peer-to-peer (P2P) trading, and two African nations […]
MicroStrategy CEO could ‘liquidate $200M in Bitcoin on a Saturday’
Michael Saylor has said that all $400 million of business intelligence firm MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin reserve holdings could be liquidated at any time. In a Sept. […]
Earth needs Bitcoin as economy hits ‘debt saturation point’ — Keiser
The world now has so much debt that, for the first time ever, it is impossible to add more, says Max Keiser. On the latest […]