Tagged: bitcoin

June 14, 2020 @ 6:48 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Sidharth Sogani, a Certified Bitcoin Professional and CEO at CREBACO Global Inc, a credit rating firm for exchanges, blockchains and coin offerings, has argued that it’s clear the Indian government hasn’t figured out how Bitcoin (BTC) works. There’s a new proposal that aims to ban… Read More

June 13, 2020 @ 2:46 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Wilshire Phoenix, an investment firm that provides multiple services including advisor and asset management, has filed an S-1 registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for a publicly traded Bitcoin (BTC) Fund. The Wilshire team notes in its filing: “The Shares will… Read More

June 13, 2020 @ 2:06 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

PARSIQ, a blockchain monitoring and workflow automation platform that provides tools for analyzing, detecting, and preventing cryptocurrency-related fraud, and Dash NEXT, the Asia-based business development division supporting Dash (a digital asset platform), are extending their existing partnership. PARISQ and Dash NEXT aim to enable real-time… Read More

June 13, 2020 @ 9:36 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Indian officials are reportedly considering passing a law that would ban the use of decentralized cryptocurrencies.  As reported by India’s Economic Times, the nation’s government might see a legal framework as being more effective than the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) blanket ban on crypto-assets…. Read More

June 12, 2020 @ 5:31 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Singapore-based Three Arrows Capital, a digital asset hedge fund, has reportedly become the first qualified investor to hold over 5% of Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (OTC:GBTC) shares. According to Grayscale, its Bitcoin Trust’s shares are the first publicly quoted securities “solely invested in and deriving value… Read More

June 11, 2020 @ 6:52 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

San Francisco-based crypto exchange Coinbase says it will continue to explore and consider adding support for new digital assets. The exchange says it aims to offer support for all crypto-assets that meet its technical requirements and standards and which also adhere to applicable laws. The… Read More

June 11, 2020 @ 7:41 am By Omar Faridi  |  

The Human Rights Foundation, a non-profit entity that aims to promote and protect human rights globally, with a special focus on “closed” societies, has introduced a Bitcoin (BTC) development fund. The new fund will support open-source application developers who are focused on making the Bitcoin… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 7:38 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Almost 80% of institutional investors say that digital assets could be a worthwhile investment, according to a survey of 800 US and European financial institutions conducted by trillion-dollar asset manager Fidelity. Fidelity’s survey revealed that more than a third of these institutions have already invested… Read More

June 10, 2020 @ 11:07 am By Omar Faridi  |  

  The ETC Group, a company established by experienced financial services professionals, announced on June 9, 2020 that they will be listing the world’s first “centrally cleared” Bitcoin ETC, BTCetc Bitcoin Exchange Traded Crypto – (BTCE) on Deutsche Börse’s XETRA platform. As noted in a… Read More

June 9, 2020 @ 11:30 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Centralized digital asset exchanges such as CoinDCX and WazirX in India have been aggressively marketing their services to the nation’s residents, after the Supreme Court of India struck down the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) blanket ban on crypto-asset businesses in March 2020. Peer to… Read More

June 8, 2020 @ 11:43 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Researchers at the Leiden Law School have argued that there’s currently a lack of clarity regarding the legal proceedings and investor rights if digital asset custodians become insolvent. Matthias Haentjens, Tycho de Graaf and Ilya Kokorin from Leiden Law School noted in a paper titled,… Read More

June 6, 2020 @ 2:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Martin Best, CMO at Wirex, confirmed in a blog post on June 4, 2020, that the London-based financial services firm will allow users to purchase, hold and exchange New Zealand dollars (NZD) and 19 other currencies including Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), Singapore dollars (SGD), and… Read More

June 5, 2020 @ 5:28 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The research division of the Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), a leading cryptocurrency derivatives exchange, has awarded a $100,000 grant to Bitcoin (BTC) developer Gleb Naumenko. BitMEX Research noted via Twitter that HDR Global Trading, the exchange’s parent company,  is “delighted to announce that a US$100,000… Read More

June 5, 2020 @ 10:32 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Caitlin Long, who claims she has been involved with Bitcoin (BTC) since 2012, has issued an update regarding her company, the Avanti Financial Group. As previously reported, Avanti is the first  “cryptocurrency-native” bank, which should launch next year. Long claims that Avanti will provide a… Read More

June 4, 2020 @ 9:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Paxful, a peer-to-peer Bitcoin marketplace, has recently entered India – a country that has recently seen a change in rules that have enabled crypto exchanges to operate thus opening the door to a huge market. Paxful states that an in-house survey about the future potential… Read More

June 4, 2020 @ 12:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

London-based Plutus​, a Fintech firm that helps users easily convert their digital assets at 0% into major fiat currencies including the British pound (GBP) and Euros, has announced an affiliate partnership with sports apparel giant, Nike. Through the partnership, users will be able to earn… Read More

June 3, 2020 @ 11:57 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The management at RRMine, a global distributed Bitcoin hashrate asset management platform that maintains offices in Hong Kong, notes that blockchain or distributed ledger technology is moving past the early days of digital currency and smart contracts, and is now increasingly focused on the development… Read More

June 3, 2020 @ 10:59 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

There are now almost 8,000 Bitcoin (BTC) ATMs, or BTMs, installed worldwide, according to data from Coin ATM Radar. A Bitcoin ATM is a kiosk that lets users buy Bitcoin with cash or their debit card. Some BTMs also allow people to sell the pseudonymous… Read More

June 2, 2020 @ 10:37 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Square Crypto, a Bitcoin (BTC) focused initiative launched by Jack Dorsey’s payments company Square (NYSE:SQ), has awarded a grant to Talaia (pronounced “Talaia”), a project-based in Spain and developed by Sergi Delgado, a distributed networks specialist from Barcelona. Square Crypto noted via Twitter: “Talaia is… Read More

June 2, 2020 @ 9:56 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Bitcoin Mercantile Exchange (BitMEX), one of the largest cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges in the world, says that they “no longer think that dated volatility-related bets are an effective way to protect portfolios because they are now too expensive.” THe BitMEX team stated: “We believe that inflation… Read More