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GBTC Holder Says Not Enough Being Done to Eliminate Discount on Shares— Proposes an Alternative Solution
9.4.2021
A privately-held investment firm from Chicago, Marlton Partners, has urged Grayscale Investments to embrace the modified Dutch auction tender offer for GBTC shares. According to Marlton, such a tender offer “would materially narrow — if not eliminate — the discount to net asset...
Muslim Civil Rights Group Calls For Microsoft, Sony, And Valve To Deplatform Six Days In Fallujah
8.4.2021
Calling the controversial first-person shooter that aims to recreate the events of the Second Battle of Fallujah an “Arab murder simulator,” Muslim civil rights and advocacy group CAIR, the Council on American–Islamic Relations, is requesting that Microsoft, Sony, and Valve avoid hosting...
Coinbase, Square & Fidelity Launch Bitcoin Trade Group
7.4.2021
The top-tier financial firms of the world, including Coinbase, Fidelity Investments, and Square Inc., are joining hands to launch an all-new trade association. The trade group shall forge an innovative way of regulating Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies across the world. It has been announced that...
Genshin Impact Replaces Famed Idol Group's Iconic Signs In Akihabara
7.4.2021
If you’ve been to Tokyo’s Akihabara in the past decade, you’ve seen large signs for pop group AKB48 on the side of the Don Quijote building. They have been replaced.Read more
North Korean Hackers Threatened Bithumb Exchange With a $16M Ransom Amid the 2017 Data Breach, Says Report
7.4.2021
A new report commissioned by the U.S. secret services unveiled what happened behind the attack launched by North Korean hackers against a South Korean crypto exchange. The case is about a breach on June 29, 2017, which exposed data tied to over 30,000 customers stemming from Bithumb. Hackers...
Russian lobby group launches new campaign against anti-crypto laws
6.4.2021
According to Russian crypto advocates, the existing laws “do not meet the needs” of the cryptocurrency market
Grayscale Reveals Intentions to Convert the Firm’s Bitcoin Trust Into an ETF
5.4.2021
On Monday, the digital currency asset manager Grayscale Investments announced intentions to file for a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) when permissible. The subsidiary of Digital Currency Group (DCG) says in regard to its crypto trust products that it always been the company’s intention...
Ripple Partner Mercury FX Accepted Into ‘First Cohort’ of a South African Regulatory Sandbox
4.4.2021
South Africa’s Inter-governmental Fintech Working Group (IFWG) recently accepted Mercury FX, a UK-based e-money firm, into the first cohort of its regulatory sandbox. The firm, which harnesses the Ripplenet blockchain, says it wants to demonstrate its technology’s ability “to...
Hips Payment Group Launches Merchant Token (MTO), a Cryptocurrency That Will Bring Consumer Protection to Blockchain Payments
3.4.2021
Disclaimer: The text below is a press release that was not written by Cryptonews.com.
Solution supports decentralized finance (DeFi) trend with consumer protection via smart contracts.
DUBLIN, Ireland (April 1, 2021) – HIPS Payment Group Ltd., a provider of innovative and cost-effective e-commerce...
Stratis Partners With World’s Largest .NET Development Community to Expand Developer Community
2.4.2021
PRESS RELEASE. Stratis, the Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform, expands developer reach by collaborating with C# Corner, the largest, most active group of C# developers in the world. 2nd April 2021, London, United Kingdom -  Stratis achieves another milestone as...
Japan's FSA asks cryptocurrency industry group to introduce FATF travel rule
1.4.2021
Japan has been a member of the FATF since 1990
Hot DOGE nips at the heels of r/Bitcoin on Reddit
1.4.2021
R/Dogecoin was the third-most active crypto group on Reddit behind r/CryptoCurrency and r/Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin miner Blockcap closes $75M investment led by Off The Chain, Foundry Digital
31.3.2021
The Texas-based miner raised more than $38 million in two separate funding rounds
US Treasury’s Proposed Crypto Wallet Rule Is Unconstitutional, Warns Civil Rights Group
31.3.2021
The New Civil Liberties Alliance has objected to FinCEN’s proposed crypto wallet rule, calling it “unlawful.” In addition, the group says that the U.S. Treasury’s “planned ‘crackdown’ on cryptocurrency holders’ private wallets is an unconstitutional...
One-Tenth of a Bitcoin: Derivatives Giant CME Group to Launch Micro BTC Futures Contract
31.3.2021
The American global markets company Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME Group) has announced the launch of a new bitcoin futures product on May 3, 2021, if U.S. regulators approve the product. The new contract is a micro bitcoin futures product that represents 0.1 bitcoin rather than CME’s other...
CME Group set to launch Micro Bitcoin futures
30.3.2021
The new futures contract will launch on May 3, 2021, pending regulatory approval
Our Man in Shanghai: Digital yuan tests, ‘bear market’ and ‘NFT’ searches spike
26.3.2021
Digital RMB testing for cross border payments and electric vehicles continues, sentiment takes a dive and blockchain events return to meatspace
Hut 8 Joins Foundry’s US Mining Pool, Adds Over 14,000 Bitcoin Mining Rigs of Hashpower
23.3.2021
On Tuesday, the firm Hut 8 Mining Corp., announced that it is joining the Foundry U.S.-based mining pool. The publicly-listed mining company said that it added 14,400 machines to Foundry’s mining operation and it also plans to deploy another 5,000 miners by August. Hut 8 Joins Foundry’s...
It’s always the stacking context.
22.3.2021
In “What the heck, z-index??,” Josh Comeau makes the analogy of layer groups in design software like Photoshop or Figma to stacking contexts in CSS. If you’ve got an element in a layer group A in Photoshop that …
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Game Preservation Group Releases Over 700 PS2 Prototypes And Unreleased Demos
21.3.2021
Last night video game preservation group, The Hidden Palace, released over 700 PS2 early builds, prototypes, E3, and press release demos in a massive dump the group referred to as “Project Deluge”.Read more