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Bitmain Rival MicroBT’s Founder Arrested in China for Alleged Embezzlement
16.12.2019
The arrest, noted by the Shenzhen Nanshan District Prosecutor on Dec. 12 and reported by business publication Caixin on Sunday, comes amid ongoing battles between mining giant Bitmain and MicroBT, which has been a rising competitor this year challenging Bitmain's market dominance
European AML Directive Pushes Crypto Startup Bottle Pay Out of Business
15.12.2019
Bottle Pay, a cryptocurrency payments provider from the U.K., has announced its decision to cease operations by the end of the year. Despite attracting some serious funding and expanding its user base significantly in the past few months, the company has found it unacceptable to continue to work...
Meet Crypto’s New Best Friend: Fiat
14.12.2019
Fiat and crypto are not enemies. They are complementary in any effective trading ecosystem
Stellar Tried to Give Away 2B XLM Tokens on Keybase. Then the Spammers Came
13.12.2019
What was advertised to be a $120 million giveaway will now be much less. Here's why
German Bank Launches Digital Assets Unit to Offer Custody Products
13.12.2019
Berlin-based solarisBank has opened a subsidiary to offer a white-labeled custody product to nonbanks interested in offering crypto products
Can ‘Dogfooding’ Altcoins Find Real Users in 2020?
13.12.2019
Dogfooding - or using your own product - is normal among crypto startups. Is it indicative of a lack of real demand?
What DeFi Needs Next Year: Three Priorities
13.12.2019
DeFi took off this year but it remains a small deal in the scheme of things. Here's how that changes
This Token Project Offered to Shut Down. Its Market Cap Shot Up $10M
13.12.2019
Should DigixDAO completely dissolve its treasury or keep making grants to enhance the ecosystem? That's the question for token holders to decide
Stablecoin Startup Terra Expands to Mongolia With Taxi Payment Service
13.12.2019
Terra is partnering with a Mongolian taxi company to let residents pay for rides using a stablecoin
Russia’s Largest Darknet Market Is Hawking an ICO to Fund Global Expansion
13.12.2019
Here’s one token sale that’s almost certainly illegal, and not just under securities laws
Crypto Custody Firm Trustology Cuts Staff as Banks Delay on Digital Assets
12.12.2019
Digital asset custody firm Trustology has cut seven of its 18 staffers as the big banks it courted are taking longer than expected to jump into crypto
Kraken Job Ad Hints at Plan to Build Special-Purpose Wyoming Bank
12.12.2019
The cryptocurrency exchange has opened up a position for someone to oversee operations for the firm’s future Wyoming SPDI bank charter
Ride ‘Em, Cowboy: Bitmain’s Marketing Gambit Ups Its Texas-Sized Position on Bitcoin
12.12.2019
Bitmain's new strategy of giving put options on bitcoin to buyers of its miners amounts to a "Texas hedge": doubling down on risk, not offsetting it
TokenSoft Scores SEC Transfer Agent Registration to Build ‘Automated Investment Bank’
12.12.2019
Crypto startup TokenSoft has obtained a key regulatory seal of approval as it seeks to build an investment bank for the age of tokenization
Dutch Bank ING Reportedly Working on Crypto Custody Tech
12.12.2019
Netherlands-based banking multinational ING is developing technology for the custody of crypto assets, according to Reuters sources
Binance Adds 167 Fiat Payment Options Through Integration With P2P Exchange Paxful
12.12.2019
Binance has teamed up with peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange Paxful to enable users to purchase bitcoin with 167 fiat currencies
Cryptopia’s Liquidator Claws Back $7.2M, But Identifying Crypo Ownership a ‘Mammoth Task’
12.12.2019
The liquidator for the collapsed New Zealand-based crypto exchange Cryptopia now has $7.2 million on balance for potential user refunds. Finding out who's owed what, though, is proving a tough task
Jack Dorsey Announces New Twitter Team: Square Crypto, but for Social Media
11.12.2019
It could be a harbinger of a radical shift in social media infrastructure, depending on the execution
Ethereum Builder ConsenSys Shutters India and Philippines Operations
11.12.2019
Consensys, the ethereum blockchain development company with hubs around the globe, has shut down key operations in India and the Philippines
Never Mind Adoption, This was a Year of Steady Infrastructural Progress
11.12.2019
As the blockchain stack matures, we’ll look back on 2019 as the start of the blockchain adoption journey