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Bitcoin Trust GBTC Shares Spike Despite 30% Premium

6.2.2020
Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices have seen significant gains as the entire cryptoconomy is up more than 40% since mid-December. Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) has also seen an uptick and shares have climbed 9% this week. The news follows the asset manager’s recent registration as...

French Food Company Looks to IBM’s Blockchain Network for Better Sourcing

6.2.2020
French egg and oil producer, the Avril Group, has joined IBM Food Trust to improve product supply chains

Lightning Labs Beta Tests Its First Paid Product, Lightning Loop

6.2.2020
Lightning Labs (LL), the developer of the Lightning Network, said it beta tests its first paid product, Lightning Loop, that aims to improve transactions on the Bitcoin network. “Loop helps startups, node operators, and end-users send and receive on Lightning more efficiently,” CEO and co-founder...

SEC’s Cryptomom Proposes Safe Harbor Framework for Token Projects

6.2.2020
U.S. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce proposes to grant decentralized token projects a three-year grace period

RSK Opens Bridge Between Bitcoin and Ethereum + More News

6.2.2020
Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Adoption news Bitcoin sidechain RSK said it has launched a two-way bridge between Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchains. Developers...

Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 6, 2020

6.2.2020
With bitcoin headed back up towards $10,000, Markets Daily is back with a quick, time saving bitcoin-focused news roundup

Not Just Ebay, NYSE Owner Intercontinental Exchange Pushes Bakkt to Retail With Latest Acquisition

6.2.2020
The owner of the New York Stock Exchange, Intercontinental Exchange, stunned many on Wall Street recently with a reported takeover bid for e-commerce marketplace Ebay. Now the group is aggressively trying to push its regulated bitcoin derivatives exchange Bakkt into the retail space with its latest...

Australia to Release National Blockchain Roadmap After Year of Preparation

6.2.2020
The Australian government is releasing its national blockchain strategy on Friday, Feb. 7

Justin Sun, Warren Buffett and Guests Finally Eat Dinner; TRX Jumps 12%

6.2.2020
Source: Twitter/@justinsuntron Just when the Cryptoverse thought it'd never happen, the long-awaited dinner between Tron's CEO Justin Sun and a crypto-skeptic billionaire Warren Buffett was finally eaten in late January. Following the news, TRX jumped more than 12%. Sun himself tweeted about...

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce Proposes 3-Year Safe Harbor Period for Crypto Token Sales

6.2.2020
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has unveiled her proposal to create a safe harbor for crypto startups, allowing them three years to build out their networks before having to address federal securities laws

Bitcoin ‘Best Bet’ in Crypto, XRP Will ‘Underperform’ — Mike Novogratz

6.2.2020
Novogratz stops short of endorsing XRP investment but says he “hopes” it succeeds on the market

ICE CEO: New Acquisition Opens Trillion-Dollar Market for Bakkt

6.2.2020
Bakkt's pending acquisition of Bridge2 Solutions, a loyalty program marketplace, will "expand Bakkt's presence across an asset class that today spans over $1 trillion in value," says its parent firm ICE's CEO Jeffrey Sprecher

Tron Founder Justin Sun Finally Met With Warren Buffett for Charity Lunch

6.2.2020
Justin Sun has finally had a charity lunch with Berkshire Hathaway chairman and billionaire Warren Buffett after a series of delays

Tron’s Justin Sun (Finally) Gets $4.5M Dinner With Warren Buffett

6.2.2020
Justin Sun finally had his $4.5 million charity dinner with Berkshire Hathaway chief Warren Buffett last month

MLB Players Allegedly Among Victims of American Crypto Fund Scam

6.2.2020
The Arizona District Attorney (DA) has announced that two men have been charged with fraud and money laundering offenses after allegedly duping victims – including octogenarians and a number of ex-Major League Baseball (MLB) players – into investments in a bogus crypto investment fund. The DA said...

Overwriting Satoshi: Kraken Exec Says Bitcoin Wasn’t Built for Payments, Isn’t Peer-to-Peer

6.2.2020
As Director of Business Development for popular crypto exchange Kraken, when Dan Held speaks, people listen. As such, his recent 46-tweet diatribe on why the “payments narrative” for bitcoin is flawed grabbed the attention of many, tickling the ears of hardcore Lighting Network fans...

Ethereum 2.0 Phase 0 'Certainly' Coming This Year, Deadline Unknown

6.2.2020
Ethereum 2.0 developers are sure that the Phase 0 of the network’s upgrade will be launched this year. Ethereum's major network upgrade, Ethereum 2.0 (a.k.a. Serenity), should be rolled out in phases, the first of which is Phase 0. The upgrade will bring, among other things, sharding...