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On quantitative easing, crypto and modern monetary theory
31.8.2020
Crypto needs financial products — simply positioned and simply transparent — to preserve and grow people’s assets in difficult times
Signature Bank Gave Dozens More PPP Loans to Crypto Firms Than Previously Reported
31.8.2020
Signature Bank gave $20 million in PPP loans to roughly 40 firms in the digital asset space. Only nine loans were revealed in public documents last month
Crypto Market Sentiment Falls Deeper into Neutral Zone
31.8.2020
Over the course of the past week, the combined moving 7-day average crypto market sentiment score (sentscore) for the top 10 coins by market capitalization did not recover to its previous positive zone status, but dropped deeper into the neutral zone instead - from 5.96 seen last week to today's...
Meet Torus, the One-Click Blockchain Wallet Trying to Make Web3 as Easy as Chrome
31.8.2020
Singapore-based Torus Labs has released a Chrome browser extension for its Torus wallet and added a new product called tKey, a custom version of 2FA
How bot trading influences the crypto market, explained
31.8.2020
Trading bots have become a major factor in the world of cryptocurrency, but are they potentially doing more harm than good?
Someone Just Lost $16M in Bitcoin By Using a Malicious Install of the Electrum Wallet
31.8.2020
An Electrum wallet user claims to have lost a fortune in bitcoin after installing an older version of the software from a malicious source
Huobi and OKEx Battle for Supremacy in China
31.8.2020
Cryptocurrency exchange Huobi is taking aim at competitor OKEx in the business of trading bitcoin futures and other derivatives contracts, opening up a new front in a longstanding rivalry that has historically focused on the lucrative Chinese market
Wyoming's 'Crypto Cowboy' unsaddled in primaries by alt-right candidate
31.8.2020
The house Majority Whip fell as right wing factions sought to remove moderate Republicans from the party, but blockchain legislation is safe, says Tyler Lindholm
Crypto Kanoon Partners with BearTax to Help Users with Tax Docs
31.8.2020
Indian crypto media house Crypto Kanoon announced on Sunday that it has joined hands with crypto accounting software solutions platform BearTax. It stated in the official tweet that BearTax will help Indian crypto users to generate their tax documents in three steps, after scanning their crypto...
Japanese crypto traders ditching XRP and MONA for Bitcoin
31.8.2020
Most Japanese crypto traders may be leaving altcoins behind entirely
Nigerian Crypto Startup Yellow Card Raises $1.5 Million For Expansion in Africa
31.8.2020
Yellow Card has raised $1.5 million in a seed round. The Nigerian crypto startup said it will use the money to expand its operations in Africa while making it easier for people on the continent to buy and sell digital assets. Investors in the new round include Polychain, venture capital firm...
Crypto Long & Short: What Changes at the Fed and the SEC Mean for Crypto
30.8.2020
Chairman Powell’s speech on Thursday highlighted how much the Fed’s role is changing, and that's an opportunity for the crypto industry
Cloudflare goes down; crypto websites hit
30.8.2020
This time it’s not your Wifi that’s the issue
Russia Blocks Cryptocurrency Websites Ahead of Regulation
30.8.2020
Russian authorities have blocked a number of websites related to cryptocurrency ahead of the country’s crypto regulation taking effect. A popular exchange aggregator website has already been blocked twice and has now received a third notice. Russia Determined to Block Crypto Sites...
Crypto has a chance to upgrade the legacy financial system
30.8.2020
Humanity may never have a better chance to change finance than we do now, and crypto and blockchain could help us
The Most Confusing Crypto Terms and What Can Be Done to Clarify Them
30.8.2020
Cryptocurrency is a domain of jargon. ‘Blockchains,’ ‘full nodes,’ ‘miners,’ ‘nonces,’ ‘side-chains’: these are only a few of the terms in crypto that are known to cause confusion and disagreement.
Not only does the ambiguity of vocab undermine the ability of people within crypto to communicate...
Asia Dominates Crypto, But Here’s Why That Could Soon Change
30.8.2020
The crypto world’s center of gravity is Asia. Big crypto-exchanges and companies operate in Europe and North America, but the majority of users are located in the Asia Pacific region, as are most of the world’s biggest exchanges and mining pools.
There are many reasons why this is the case....
Institutional crypto interest hasn’t been affected by COVID-19
30.8.2020
In a world where almost every asset has shown vulnerability, digital assets have proven themselves to be reliable
Defi Project Yearn Finance Smashes Records as Native Token Surpasses $30K
30.8.2020
The decentralized finance (defi) crypto asset tied to the Yearn Finance project has smashed records this week, as the coin touched a high of $30,324 on Saturday evening. Yearn’s token YFI has been recently added to the Aave platform and the project’s founder, Andre Cronje, is currently...
The Great Reset and accredited investors: Bad crypto news of the week
29.8.2020
Check out this week’s Bad Crypto podcast