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SEC Denies Freedom of Information Act Request Concerning Tether Documents
On September 24, the staff writer for The New Republic, Jacob Silverman, tweeted about a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request he...
DAOs May Be the Future of Work, but Don’t Bet on Them Being the Next Big Asset Class
A growing number of Ethereum enthusiasts believe that decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) could be the future of work, cultural...
Suex Founder Loses Top Job Over US Sanctions, Major Exchange, Payment Provider Implicated
The scandal around sanctioned crypto broker Suex is growing in Russia where one of the co-founders of the OTC platform has been dismissed...
Ethereum price gets back to $3K as institutional investors pile into ETH futures
Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) staged a rebound on Sept. 26 following a massive decline earlier this week that saw its prices...
How Investors Warmed to Chinese Blockchain Builder Red Date
For its investors, Red Date was an acquired taste.With fewer than 200 employees, mostly engineers, Beijing-based Red Date Technology is...
UNI, SUSHI, MKR, Defi Tokens See 24 Hour Double-Digit Gains, Defi TVL Jumps 6% in 2 Weeks
While a number of popular crypto-assets like bitcoin have been consolidating, decentralized finance (defi) tokens have captured...
Is Crypto at a Socio-Regulatory Inflection Point?
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeThis week’s “Long Reads Sunday” returns to the format’s roots with four threads...
The NFTs Revolution: LuxFi Is Launching Asset-Backed NFT Marketplace for Luxury Assets
Buying a Rolex watch or a Chanel bag with Bitcoins? It becomes possible with LuxFi. With the vision to bridge the gap between real-world...
Huobi to Gradually Expel Its China Users in Wake of Ban; Token Slides to 8-Month Low
Prominent crypto exchange Huobi Global announced on Sunday that it would stop serving existing China-based users by the end of this year,...
Derivatives data suggests Solana has reached a short-term top
Solana (SOL) reached a $216 all-time high on Sept. 9 after rallying 508% since Aug. The bull run caused some analysts to project a $500...
Fantom Launches NFT Marketplace Artion – Platform Aims to ‘Unburden Creators of High Fees’
On September 24, 2021, the Fantom Foundation announced the launch of a new non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace that aims to compete with...
Bitcoin could hit $37K but trader says BTC price top will be ‘number you can’t comprehend’
Bitcoin (BTC) sealed another $40,000 retest on Sept. 26 as the battle for the weekly close raged on. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart...
Abkhazia Seizes 6,000 Mining Devices but Fails to Disrupt Crypto Mining
Authorities in Abkhazia have confiscated thousands of mining machines, closing down all large crypto farms, yet they have admittedly...
Introducing MetaWars: A Strategic Blockchain-Based Game in the Metaverse
MetaWars is a highly immersive multiplayer strategy game. With an infinite universe that is established in a digital metaverse, players...
London College Student Robbed at Knifepoint by 8 Thugs for $93K in Bitcoin
Recently a student from the University of Kent in London was robbed at knifepoint for his bitcoin. After eight thugs stormed his dorm room...
Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers: Cryptocurrency Will ‘Do Better Regulated’
Former U.S. treasury secretary and chief economist at the World Bank, Larry Summers, says cryptocurrency will do better regulated in a...
Cardano Announces Partnerships With Dish Network, Chainlink
Ethereum blockchain rival Cardano and TV and wireless service provider Dish Network said they’ve entered a deal to help Dish integrate the...
Crypto recovers on positive Fed and Evergrande news, then drops amid China FUD; Sorare and Dapper Labs raised a combined $930M: Hodler’s Digest, Sept. 19-25
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst)...
Indonesia Will Not Ban Cryptocurrencies Like China, Minister Says as Crypto Trade Soars
Authorities in Indonesia do not intend to follow China’s example of imposing an outright ban on cryptocurrencies, a government...
LD Capital Establishes $50M FOF for Supporting High-Quality Blockchain Funds Worldwide Including 1kx
PRESS RELEASE. LD Capital announced it established a 50 million US dollars FOF towards supporting high-quality blockchain funds worldwide....
The ‘Feels Guy’ Gets Blockchained — Rare Wojak NFT Project to Launch 4,000 Randomly Generated Wojaks
While Pepe the frog and Doge made it into the limelight with unique and rare non-fungible token (NFT) assets, another NFT meme collection...
China’s BSN Builder Is Registering a Nonprofit in Singapore to Manage International Arm
Red Date Technology, the company developing China’s Blockchain Services Network (BSN), wants the project to move past its government roots...
Art Collectors Swoon Over NFTs at Elite Basel Gathering
Ballers, bling and botox found their way to the Rhine this week as Art Basel finally opened following a 16-month delay. After the...
USDC Market Capitalization Hits $30 Billion — Stablecoin Adds $10 Billion in 4 Months
As of September 25, 2021, there’s $129.3 billion worth of stablecoin assets in existence which represents 6.54% of the crypto...
Bitcoin Has an Investment ‘Edge’ Over Other Assets, Says 178-Year Old Economic Magazine – Here’s Why
The historic magazine The Economist is giving Bitcoin high praise, saying that the crypto holds attractive investment advantages over...
Huobi Appears to Have Suspended Mainland Chinese New User Registration
The option of Mainland China in the country/region selection on crypto exchange Huobi’s new user registration page has disappeared...
Life on Bitcoin (2021 Edition)
Join hosts Jonathan Mohan, Stephanie Murphy and Andreas M. Antonopoulos as they reflect on bitcoin’s evolution as a currency and...
US Senator Calls on SEC Chairman to Provide Regulatory Clarity on Cryptocurrencies
A U.S. senator has asked the chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, to provide clear guidance on...
US Lawmakers See China’s Authoritarian Crackdown on Crypto as Big Opportunity
Several U.S. lawmakers see China’s authoritarian crackdown on cryptocurrency, including bitcoin, as “a perfect opportunity...
Charitable sustainable NFTs for the United Nations’ 17 SDGs
In her monthly Expert Take column, Selva Ozelli, an international tax attorney and CPA, covers the intersection between emerging...
Weekly Recap: What Happens When S*** Gets Real
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this edition of “The Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at the heightened state of...
Court Extends Detention of Finiko Pyramid Founder Doronin and His Right-Hand Man
A court in Tatarstan has extended the detention of Kirill Doronin, founder of Russia’s largest Ponzi scheme in recent times,...
Bitcoin volatility continues as BTC price closes in on critical weekly close
Bitcoin (BTC) briefly fell below $42,000 on Sept. 25 as the weekend looked set to deliver an unimpressive weekly close. BTC/USD 1-hour...
A Rocky Start for Bukele’s Bitcoin Law — El Salvador After Adoption
The adoption of bitcoin as legal tender in El Salvador has been one of the biggest events in the cryptocurrency world this year. However,...
Bhutan Partners With Ripple to Pilot Digital Ngultrum on a Private Ledger
The Central Bank of Bhutan, the Royal Monetary Authority (RMA), has partnered with Ripple to start testing a model of its central bank...
These 3 NFT Projects Collectively Captured Over $10 Billion in Sales
Non-fungible token (NFT) assets have taken the world by storm in 2021 and three current projects in the NFT universe have seen sales...
Morgan Stanley’s Executive Likens Bitcoin’s Resilience to Kenny Who Dies in Every South Park Episode
Morgan Stanley Investment Management’s Dennis Lynch, says that bitcoin’s resilience is like Kenny from the popular TV series...
All bark and some bite. China’s Bitcoin ban puts traders in the ‘fear’ zone
China bans Bitcoin (BTC), again. No, we’re not traveling back in time. On Sept. 24, the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) published a new set...
Bridged Stablecoins on Solana Get a Boost With Mercurial Finance Pools
Mercurial Finance has launched a liquidity pool for Wormhole wrapped stablecoin assets, the decentralized exchange announced Friday....
Small Business Owners Study Says Los Angeles Ranks the Most Crypto-Friendly City in the US
A recent study conducted by the online invoicing company that works with small businesses Skynova explains that the city of Los Angeles...
Price analysis 9/24: BTC, ETH, ADA, BNB, XRP, SOL, DOT, DOGE, AVAX, LUNA
The crypto market’s recovery was rocked on Sept. 24 after news that China’s government is adopting a new set of measures that...
NFTs Revive Dot-Com Era Hype Over Domain Names
Non-fungible tokens, known as NFTs, are reigniting a late 1990s tech trend – the short and sexy domain name.Similar to the “.com” web...
Protect Yourself With the Sim Encriptados, Travel to More Than 200 Countries, and Communicate With Security
PRESS RELEASE. When people talk about technology, the first thoughts are cell phones, applications, or equipment; but you rarely recall...
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Stabilizes After China Crypto Ban Sell-Off; Volatility to Remain Elevated
Bitcoin is stabilizing above the $40,000 support level after China’s latest crypto ban triggered immediate selling. BTC is down about 11%...
El Banco Central de Chile crea equipo para analizar la emisión de su propia moneda digital
El Banco Central de Chile analiza la creación de su propia moneda digital (CBDC, por sus siglas en inglés).La entidad formará un equipo...
Kentucky Sends Cease and Desist Order to Crypto Lending Platform Celsius Over Interest-Bearing Accounts
Six days ago, the securities regulators from New Jersey and Texas cracked down on the cryptocurrency lending platform Celsius....
Cross-chain bridge equipped altcoins rally higher despite China’s crypto ban
The bullish momentum that had been growing across the cryptocurrency ecosystem over the past few days came to a screeching halt on Sept....
China’s Latest Crypto Crackdown Draws Yawns From Bitcoin Market Vets
A fresh crackdown by Chinese authorities on cryptocurrency trading sent bitcoin tumbling on Friday.But to veteran traders and analysts in...
Bitcoin Mining Firm Fortress Names Ex-Galaxy Digital Exec as New CEO
Canadian bitcoin mining infrastructure company Fortress Technologies announced Friday the departure of its co-founder and chief executive...
China’s Latest Crypto Crackdown Drawns Yawns From Bitcoin Market Vets
A fresh crackdown by Chinese authorities on cryptocurrency trading sent bitcoin tumbling on Friday.But to veteran traders and analysts in...
Bitcoin Is the Most Illiquid It’s Ever Been: 12 Numbers That Tell the Current Story of Markets
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeNLW looks at the current state of crypto markets through numbers,...
Gavin Andresen Publishes Theory of Possible Crypto Future: Whales Shut Down the BTC Network in the Year 2100
On September 21, former Bitcoin developer Gavin Andresen published an interesting blog post about “a possible [Bitcoin]...
China’s Latest Crypto Ban Is Its Most Severe, Insiders Say
Things are getting worse for crypto in China. A comparison of China’s crypto trading ban Friday and previous crypto-related bans reveals...
Why El Salvador Is Botching Its Bitcoin Experiment
It’s rare that I agree with David Gerard, the British writer who has made a career out of cherry-picking the crypto industry’s problems to...
Robinhood Crypto Appoints New CTO; Hires Chief Compliance Officer From Grayscale
Brokerage platform Robinhood has appointed Johann Kerbrat as its new chief technology officer (CTO) to oversee its growing crypto...
Twitter’s New Crypto Features Are a BFD
The past four months have been full of transformational moments for crypto. From El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender to the...
Central Bank of Chile Sets Up Team to Study CBDC Issuance
The Central Bank of Chile is exploring the creation of a central bank digital currency (CBDC).The bank will form a team to analyze the...
Scalable network KSM is now an official validator for Guarda Wallet
As the benefits of stalking are increasingly being discussed in the crypto world, Guarda announces KSM as its newest stalking validator In...
SEC Hints at Tether Probe in Records Request Denial
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) may be investigating Tether and Tether Operations Limited, a Freedom of Information Act...
Sound familiar? September 2017 China Bitcoin ‘ban’ sparked $20K all-time high in 3 months
Bitcoin (BTC) dipped deeper to challenge $40,000 support during Sept. 24 as the dust settled on what analysts stressed was a false alarm...
FTX Moves Headquarters From Hong Kong to Bahamas: Report
Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FX has officially moved its headquarters from Hong Kong to the Bahamas, according to a report from...
10 Crypto Exchanges File for Registration With Korean Regulators Ahead of Deadline
Cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea have until midnight on Friday to register with financial authorities in order to continue...
Ethereum drops more than Bitcoin as China escalates crypto ban, ETH/BTC at 3-week low
The price of Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) crept lower Friday after China extended its crackdown on cryptocurrencies by...
Lessons From the Canadian Model for a Crypto ETF
This episode is sponsored by Quantstamp and Insider Protocol. In this week’s episode of “Money Reimagined,”...
Crypto News Roundup for Sept. 24, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Bitstamp.Today’s Stories:“Reasonably good” September jobs starts Fed taper. Is another dud...
Andre Cronje’s New NFT Marketplace Is a Vampire Attack Suicide Pact
As non-fungible token (NFT) giant OpenSea struggles through the fallout from an insider frontrunning controversy, a new challenge may be...
China Tightens Crypto Mining Crackdown, Bans Trading
Chinese authorities ordered a fresh crackdown on crypto mining and outlawed virtually all crypto trading activities on Friday.The People’s...
Crypto Miners Riot Blockchain, Marathon Digital Slide on China Crypto Ban
Bitcoin miners Riot Blockchain Inc. and Marathon Digital Holdings Inc. were among the sharpest decliners among crypto stocks on Friday...
Where to buy Terra before new upgrade sends LUNA price to the moon
Growing demand for UST saw LUNA price hit an all-time high this month, and it could easily achieve another after the Columbus 5 upgrade...
Raoul Pal thinks ADA could “do incredibly well”: where to buy Cardano
ADA is generating a lot of buzz ahead of the unveiling of a prototype dAppStore at this weekend’s Cardano Summit Since launching...
China’s Crypto Crackdown: Fundamentals Still Show Bull Market Continuation, Bobby Lee Says ‘Don’t Panic’
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC), the country’s central bank, published a Q&A to its website which said that Chinese...
Where to buy Bonus Cake after it skyrockets over 300% in 24 hours
The new token, which provides automatic rewards in CAKE, has made gains of nearly 480% over the last seven days While most coins have...
Powerbridge Launches Green Crypto Mining Operation Based in Singapore
Nasdaq-listed Powerbridge Technologies has launched a new Singapore-based subsidiary for renewable energy-powered mining called...
Where to buy xHunter: XHT pumps 42% before launch of NFT game
Adrenaline fans have helped the token to achieve weekly gains of 134% — despite only launching this month The crypto market has been...
Smart Marketing Token (SMT) Is on a Mission to Help Blockchain Projects Reach Their Goals
Blockchain developers can find it very daunting to attract an audience these days, when so many new ventures are hitting the market at an...
Crypto Industry Could Add $184B of Economic Value to India by 2030: NASSCOM
The crypto industry in India has the potential to add $184 billion of economic value, in the form of investments and cost savings, by...
Old FUD, new BTC price dip — Weeks-old China crypto ‘ban’ sparks Bitcoin price drop to $42K
Bitcoin (BTC) suddenly lost $2,000 in an hour on Sept. 24 as what appeared to be old news over a Chinese regulatory ban hit social media....
Egor Petukhovsky, CEO of US-Sanctioned Suex, Says He Will Go to Court
Egor Petukhovsky, the founder of the over-the-counter (OTC) crypto desk Suex and the Telegram chat bot for peer-to-peer crypto trades...
Monthly Report: UAE regulators embrace trading of crypto assets, Turkey state leader rejects cryptocurrencies
The debt crisis involving China’s second-largest property developer, the Evergrande Group set off a sell-off across cryptocurrency...
Fintech Firm Centbee Graduates From South African Regulatory Sandbox
Fintech firm Centbee recently announced it has successfully completed the testing of its cross-border remittance application, Minit Money....
Bitcoin Startup Moon Raises $2.1M to Enter New Markets
Bitcoin startup Moon has raised $2.1 million to expand its partnerships and offer more types of e-commerce crypto payments.Shared...
Kentucky becomes fourth US state to go after Celsius
Crypto lender Celsius is once again in the headlines- this time after being slapped with a cease and desist order by the state of Kentucky...
eToro launches Portfolio with exposure to major DeFi assets
The portfolio will track major assets in the DeFi ecosystem, including Ethereum (ETH), Uniswap (UNI), aave (AAVE), and Chainlink (LINK)...
Future of Life Institute to Launch Vitalik Buterin Fellowships Centered on AI Safety Research
The Future of Life Institute, a charity and outreach organization, is launching two fellowship programs named after Ethereum creator...
Bitcoin Trending Lower on China Crackdown; Support at $36K-$40K
Bitcoin (BTC) sellers were active during Asia hours after China’s central bank declared cryptocurrency related business illegal. BTC...
Hive Blockchain Posts Net Income of $42.5M for Year Ended March 2021
Cryptocurrency mining company Hive Blockchain posted net income of $42.5 million for the year ended March 31, 2021.The figure compares...
Bitcoin hits $45K, TWTR stock price rises 3.8% after BTC tipping comes to Twitter
Bitcoin (BTC) hit four-day highs of $45,000 on Sept. 24 as the market digested news that Twitter had enabled BTC tipping. BTC/USD 1-hour...
Old FUD, new BTC price dip — Weeks-old China crypto ‘ban’ sparks $42K Bitcoin price drop
Bitcoin (BTC) suddenly lost $2,000 in an hour on Sept. 24 as what appeared to be old news over a Chinese regulatory ban hit social media....
Old FUD, new BTC price dip — Month-old China crypto ‘ban’ sparks $42K Bitcoin price drop
Bitcoin (BTC) suddenly lost $2,000 in an hour on Sept. 24 as what appeared to be old news over a Chinese regulatory ban hit social media....
FCA and Bank of England to collaborate on a blockchain regulatory reporting system
The regulator will release more details and feedback on the initiative before the end of the year The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA),...