Bitcoin ETFs scooped up almost 3X more BTC than produced in December

A member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors has said that Facebook's Libra could pose risks to consumers due to a lack of clarity over their rights with respect to the token’s underlying assets and to the system overall.Lael Brainard — who chairs the Fed’s Committees on Financial Stability, Federal Reserve Bank Affairs, Consumer…

Developers on the new blockchain will have a chance to receive investment and other forms of support from a wide range of Web3 firms.

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin says that blockchain applications outside of finance face more difficulty gaining traction, as the primary added value they offer is decentralization. Buterin made his remarks during a speech at crypto event Token 2049 in Hong Kong on March 13.Buterin began by noting that finance is “realistically the first blockchain [application]…

Crypto stocks’ strong performance was largely attributed to growing bets that Donald Trump will win the presidential election.

Binance hits back at claims it fired investigator who found manipulation, Hong Kong crypto ETFs take the “equivalent” of $50B. Asia Express.

Over the course of the past few weeks, the global cryptocurrency community bore witness to two major announcements related to stablecoins — with the first being the launch of Paxos’s gold-backed Ethereum token, PAX Gold (PAXG), and the other being the release of Binance’s cryptocoin backed by the United States dollar (BUSD). Paxos, a global digital…

As a third-party vendor for BlockFi, Hubspot stored user data such as names, email addresses and phone numbers, which has been historically used for conducting phishing attacks. 248 Total views 3 Total shares New Jersey-based crypto financial institution BlockFi confirmed a data breach incident via one of its third-party vendors, Hubspot. BlockFi’s proactive warning about…

The Financial Conduct Authority named CEX.IO, Revolut, Copper, Globalblock and Moneybrain as companies in the crypto space temporarily allowed to operate in the United Kingdom. 298 Total views 21 Total shares The number of firms permitted to offer crypto services to U.K. residents under temporary registration status from the Financial Conduct Authority has dropped from…

Bitcoin and altcoins see retracement amid a short-term target of April’s all-time highs to act as support for BTC/USD. 3654 Total views 24 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) remains bullish but has “one more leg down” to complete before a resurgence, one trader argues.In an analysis on Nov. 10, popular Twitter account Crypto Ed said that the…