Gallup Poll: 75% of US Investors Think Bitcoin Is ‘Very Risky’

news Online retailer Overstock.com announced it will pay shareholder dividends in a digital security listed on its affiliate company tZero’s trading platform. The move, approved by the company’s board of directors, will see that one digital voting series A-1 preferred stock (series A-1) will represent 10 shares of common stock, or 10 shares of voting…

Users of Arbitrum, which has seen immense growth in the past few months, were expecting the network to issue its native tokens for a long time. Arbitrum developers have previously denied they planned to issue tokens, but that didn’t dissuade traders from making bets on the possibility of the tokens in the future.

Distributed though it may be, the EOS community has fought hard to remain united. As of June, two rival groups were briefly in competition to launch the official EOS blockchain (or mainnet) using code released by the company behind the protocol, Block.One. The standoff was resolved, and the EOS community launched a unified network later…

Microtransactions are a staple of many modern games, to the point many have just accepted them. However, new models are emerging, thanks to blockchain technology, that stand to disrupt the norm. Play-to-earn games are growing in popularity, and new services are lowering the cost of entry. These innovations are set to become the catalyst to…

Apr 20, 2020 at 13:00 UTCMakerDAO founder Rune Christensen image via CoinDesk archivesJ.P. Koning, a CoinDesk columnist, worked as an equity researcher at a Canadian brokerage firm and a financial writer at a large Canadian bank. He runs the popular Moneyness blog.Does the dai stablecoin need negative interest rates?The coronavirus smashed into markets on March 12. U.S.…

Apr 16, 2020 at 19:42 UTCBitGo is looking to become an all-in-one provider for the institutional crypto market, acquiring tax management platform Lumina in its latest step to expand service offerings.BitGo announced Thursday that Lumina would become part of its new institutional-grade tax solution that would plug into the wider platform. Known as "BitGo Tax,"…

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has recovered billions of dollars more than it needs to make the victim’s of Sam Bankman-Fried’s theft whole, according to the latest bankruptcy plan announced on Tuesday. Customers will receive $1.18 for every dollar’s worth of crypto assets they held on the exchange at the time of collapse in November 2022

Baanx, a cryptocurrency payments specialist authorized by the U.K.’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has raised a $20 million Series A funding round, the company said on Tuesday.The investment round, which included Ledger, Tezos, Chiron and British Business Bank, brings the crypto payment enabler’s total funding to over $30 million. London-based Baanx, which runs the Ledger

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) would take a back seat in a crypto oversight bill being re-launched by Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), which would require that crypto exchanges be overseen by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and all stablecoin issuers be regulated depository institutions.The crypto industry needs the…