Bitcoin News Roundup for May 1, 2020

news Harbor has pivoted from helping companies issue security tokens to helping them tokenize existing securities. Announced Monday, the startup has created tokens on the ethereum blockchain representing the shares of four real estate funds worth $100 million. The move is intended to make these private securities easier to trade for the 1,100 investors that…

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Oct 27, 2020 at 21:51 UTC(sandsun/ iStock/Getty Images Plus)‘A Race Toward Zero’: With Hashrate in the Clouds, Bitcoin Mining Is Less Profitable Than EverBitcoin mining profitability is in the basement, seeing all-time lows in 2020.Conversely, Bitcoin's hashrate has surged throughout 2020, propelled in part by mining farms financing new hardware to boost their operations.Bitcoin's hashrate…

Mar 10, 2020 at 16:30 UTCLibra Wanted a Currency, All We Need Are DeFi’s Open Payment RailsLex Sokolin, a CoinDesk columnist, is Global Fintech co-head at ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based blockchain software company. The following is adapted from his Future of Finance newsletter.As I write this, Facebook is worth about $500 billion in market capitalization.…

news Samsung Electronics is releasing a new edition of its Galaxy Note 10 smartphone that will come with a pre-installed cryptocurrency wallet in its bid to boost adoption of blockchain tech. According to a Wall Street Journal article on Thursday, the new product is a variant of Samsung’s flagship product Galaxy Note 10 but marketed as a…

feature A new security token trading venue is coming out of stealth mode with a novel strategy to help small U.S. companies go public with a minimal compliance burden. Announced Wednesday, ABE Global plans to launch sometime this summer and aims to list over 100 tokens by the end of the year. Two of its…

The U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) is set to announce its interest rate decision on Wednesday and the question is not whether it will hike the benchmark borrowing cost by 25 basis points (bps), but whether the increase will mark the end of a tightening cycle that began 16 months ago and was partly responsible for…

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The "Billy Bitcoin" hero is part of the charity's efforts to drum up more crypto donations.(Songs of Love Foundation)Feb 8, 2021 at 9:07 a.m. UTCUpdated Feb 8, 2021 at 9:11 a.m. UTCChildren’s Charity Creates Bitcoin Superhero to Attract Crypto DonationsA U.S.-based children’s charity has created a bitcoin superhero to help boost its fundraising profile.The Songs…