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Barry Silbert
5.6.2020
Barry Silbert is the founder of venture firm Digital Currency Group (DCG), crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments and illiquid assets marketplace SecondMarket. Silbert founded SecondMarket in 2004, where he created the Bitcoin Investment Trust, wholly devoted to bitcoin and the first investment...
Ransomware Group Threatens Auction of Madonna's Legal Data
2.6.2020
REvil’s ransomware gang is launching an auction of stolen data, including legal information hacked from Madonna
ViaBTC Group Announces Strategic Upgrade to Advance Innovation and Improve Customer Experience
30.5.2020
Hong Kong, 30 May, 2020 – ViaBTC Group, an innovative technology company specialized in blockchain and dedicated to providing users with comprehensive digital asset management services, today announced a strategic upgrade, which included a new organizational structure, product innovations...
GSX Group’s New Digital Securities Venue Tokenizes First Client Shares
29.5.2020
Gibraltar Stock Exchange Group's recently launched GRID venue has tokenized the shares of adtech firm tribeOS
MIT Group Funding Shows Growing Crypto Trading Interest
29.5.2020
An MIT startup focused on providing institutions better access to crypto trading technologies, recently secured millions in funding
GRX Group’s GRID Platform Hosts its First Tokenized Security
27.5.2020
Digital advertising platform tribeOS launched its shares as tokenized securities on GSX Group’s GRID platform
Russia Proposes Law That Criminalizes Buying Bitcoin With Cash, Offenders Face 7 Years in Jail
24.5.2020
Russian lawmakers have proposed new laws that seek to ban the use of bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies in the country, local media reported. According to draft bills submitted by a group of deputies to the Russian parliament recently, individuals may face up to seven years in prison...
Bitcoin Futures, Options, and Open Interest: Crypto Derivatives Break Records After the Halving
22.5.2020
Since the market rout on March 12, otherwise known as ‘Black Thursday,’ bitcoin futures and options contracts have seen significant demand. On May 14, CME Group saw the total number of outstanding derivatives contracts (open interest) touch a high of $142 million. Four days later,...
Grayscale’s Bitcoin Holdings Pass $3 Billion, Growing 76% Year-on-Year
20.5.2020
American digital asset management fund Grayscale has continued to grow, with the total assets under management hitting $3.8 billion
[aktualita] PPF Telecom Group vydala dluhopisy za 14 miliard, zájem byl veliký
15.5.2020
Společnost PPF Telecom Group, pod kterou spadají operátoři O2 v Česku a na Slovensku, CETIN a Telenor ve střední a východní Evropě, opět vydala dluhopisy. Tentokrát ve výši 500 milionů eur, tedy asi 13,8 miliardy korun. TIP: PPF přejmenovala telekomunikační aktivity. Loni vynesly...
Industry Group Led by Polychain, Coinbase Seeks to Get Ahead on Staking Regulations
14.5.2020
The Proof of Stake Alliance has released a set of recommendations for entities securing a proof-of-stake network to avoid drawing the ire of regulators
Monex Group CEO to First-Time Investors: Buy Bitcoin, Gold & US Stocks
14.5.2020
Oki Matsumoto. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, JapanSocietyNYC
The CEO of the Monex Group, a major Japanese securities company has advised investors to buy bitcoin (BTC), gold and American stocks.
In a blog post, Monex chief Oki Matsumoto stated that first-time investors would be advised...
Fund Manager Got NY BitLicense 11 Months After Hiring Its Architect
13.5.2020
Benjamin Lawsky, the former regulator who created New York’s BitLicense in 2015, joined a bitcoin fund manager nearly a year before it applied for, and received, the license
Vietnam Govt to Launch Crypto Research Group to Evaluate Policy
11.5.2020
Vietnam finance ministry has established a research group to develop and scrutinize digital currency-related policy proposals
3 Straight Record Days Drive CME Bitcoin Futures Open Interest to All-Time High
8.5.2020
Open interest for CME bitcoin futures made a new all-time high of just under $500 million on Friday. CME’s bitcoin futures market are growing faster than nearly every other bitcoin futures market on a percentage and real growth basis
Global Fintech Firm Launches Security Tokenization Platform
8.5.2020
Fintech firm GSX Group says their securities tokenization platform is phase one of its global security token ecosystem
Coinshares Acquires Gabi Trading: New Unit Traded $3 Billion Worth of Crypto in 2019
8.5.2020
Coinshares on Thursday launched its trading business, Coinshares Capital Markets (CSCM), reporting that the unit traded over $3 billion worth of cryptocurrency in 2019 and $1.5 billion during the first quarter of 2020. The UK digital asset manager is basically rebranding Gabi Trading, a business...
3 Reports Look at North Korea’s Lazarus Group, Iran’s Farhad Exchange, and the Crypto Ponzi Futurenet
7.5.2020
On May 4, 2020, the blockchain surveillance firm Chainalysis published a three-part series covering a crypto Ponzi scheme, North Korea, and Iran’s use of digital currencies like bitcoin. The company’s research papers discuss the Poland-based crypto Ponzi called Futurenet, a hosting...
Maze Ransomware Group Hacks Two Plastic Surgeons
6.5.2020
Two plastic surgeon’s studios were hacked by cybercrime group Maze and sensitive data of customers is already available online
Digital Currency Group
29.4.2020
Founded by Barry Silbert in 2015, Digital Currency Group (DCG) is a venture capital firm that invests solely in the digital currency industry. Digital Currency Group has three subsidiaries: CoinDesk, which was purchased in January 2016, digital currency brokerage firm Genesis Trading and digital...