Bitcoin Leads Price Sell-Off Across Crypto Markets as Biden Tax Plan Bites
Bitcoin falls as Biden’s plan to raise capital gains tax hurts risk appetite. Bitcoin slipped on Friday as reports of U.S. President Joe Biden mulling…
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CoinMarketCap Metric Overhaul Keeps Owner Binance at the Top
CoinMarketCap came under fire last month after its new web traffic-based ranking system gave Binance – which acquired the aggregator for a rumored $400 million in April…
Crypto Custodian BitGo Joins Race to Provide Prime Brokerage Services
The services will be offered by BitGo Prime, a new entity that will be headed by Nick Carmi, BitGo’s head of financial services. Carmi joined the…
Crypto Community Reacts to Tether Admitting USDT Not Fully Backed
According to the company behind it, stablecoin USDT is not fully backed by fiat currency deposits. It was revealed today that the controversial crypto asset firm Tether…
Bitcoin Coders Send International Lightning Payment Over Ham Radio
In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind transaction, two developers working in separate countries have successfully sent a bitcoin lightning payment over radio waves. Organized over Twitter this…
$404 Million to $100 Million: GSR to Cut Overstock tZERO Investment By 75%
A long-awaited capital infusion for Overstock and its tZERO security token platform has been delayed again – and significantly downsized. GSR Capital, a Hong Kong-based private equity…
Facebook Plans to Launch Cryptocurrency in First Half of 2019: NYT Report
Facebook is talking to exchanges about potentially listing a cryptocurrency. That’s the main finding from a New York Times story published Thursday on several efforts to introduce…
Crypto Broker Led by Uber and E*Trade Alums Is Going Public
Voyager, a cryptocurrency brokerage startup founded by veterans of Uber and E*Trade, is going public on Canada’s TSX Venture Exchange through a reverse merger valued…
Winklevoss Exchange Gemini Shuts Down Accounts Over Stablecoin Redemptions
Two over-the-counter trading desks say their accounts at Gemini, the crypto exchange founded by U.S. investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, were abruptly closed without explanation…
Ethereum Devs Propose Activating Constantinople Hard Fork in Late February
Ethereum core developers have proposed activating Constantinople – a planned system-wide upgrade that was called off earlier this week – in late February. Also called…