BitFlyer Opens Japanese Bitcoin Market to European Traders

news tZERO, a blockchain-based subsidiary of Overstock, announced a partnership with film production and financing company Vision Tree to tokenize a movie. “Atari: Fistful of Quarters” will allegedly be the first motion picture to undergo the process of crypto-securitization in an effort to raise as much as $40 million for a biopic of Atari founder…

Recent reporting from CoinDesk and Fortune suggests the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is preparing to classify ether (ETH), the native token of the second-largest blockchain, Ethereum, as a security. The move would undoubtedly have severe repercussions for the entire crypto industry, including derailing plans for an spot ETH exchange-traded fund.This is an excerpt from

news The lightning network, seen as the future of bitcoin payments, is now a bit easier to monitor. This Wednesday, Lightning Labs released a new network analysis tool dubbed “Lndmon” that bitcoin lightning network users can use to pull up data about the state of their node and the rest of the network. The offering…

Edward is an analyst on the CoinDesk Research team. The phrase “Code is Law” is often tossed around in the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry, posing that DeFi is able to self-regulate because code is intended to be used exactly how it was written. As CoinDesk reporter Andrew Thurman said, “Where one man might see an…

Reddit’s r/CryptoCurrency community of 6.9 million users has fired the moderators who had traded subreddit’s native token MOON minutes before Reddit announced its decision to end its “Community Points” program last Tuesday.“All the moderators who sold Moons before the announcement have already been removed from the mod team,” r/CryptoCurrency told CoinDesk in a Twitter message.On

Dec 17, 2019 at 20:38 UTCCMCC Capital, a Hong Kong-based venture capital firm, has hired Zhao Chen from Neo Global Development, one of the largest blockchain companies in China. Chen will join company as a partner to open an office in Shanghai to lead on equity investments in mainland China blockchain firms, the firm told CoinDesk. “The…

In September 2021, El Salvador adopted Bitcoin as its second legally-recognized national currency alongside the U.S. dollar. It is the first nation to adopt the “Bitcoin Standard,” serving as a testing ground for other countries looking to adopt the digital currency as legal tender.Jonathan Martin is a graduate of Stanford University, Georgetown University, and a…

news Coinbase is putting money to work as part of a bid to grow the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem. Announced Tuesday, the US cryptocurrency exchange is investing 1 million USDC each in lending protocols Compound and dYdX. Called the “USDC Bootstrap Fund,” Coinbase says the new fund will support developers by “investing USDC directly in the…

news Bitrefill has launched a new service that seeks to simplify the process of setting up payment channels on the lightning network, the experimental, layer-two initiative being built on top of bitcoin. Demoed for the first time Friday at the Understanding Bitcoin conference in Malta, the new service – dubbed “Thor Turbo” – helps users…