German Finance Minister Says He Does Not Support Private Cryptos: Report

news Jake Benson is a long-time industry entrepreneur and the CEO and Founder of Lukka, a comprehensive tool for calculating capital gains taxes for cryptocurrency. In this clip he and CoinDesk Editor Pete Rizzo talk about a future where corporate tokens aren’t a “surprise.” “It’s not a surprise to me that inevitably corporations they’re going…

Y00ts, a non-fungible token (NFT) collection that was once among the top projects on Solana, has announced that it will be migrating away from Polygon and would return the $3 million grant it received from the Ethereum layer 2 earlier this year.Instead, y00ts said it planned to migrate to Ethereum in order to "unite the…

news Israel’s Fintech regulator is rearranging its licensing regime to encourage competition in the field. The Israeli Capital Market Authority is looking to change how fintech licenses are distributed in Israel according to a Monday announcement reported by Israeli daily newspaper Calcalist. Some 2,000 fintech and blockchain-businesses are currently seeking licenses from the state regulator.…

Jun 14, 2020 at 22:17 UTCUpdated Jun 14, 2020 at 22:18 UTCCrypto Long & Short: Cryptocurrency Markets May Be Decentralized, But They’re Still AccountableOne underappreciated feature of crypto markets is the lack of centralization. I mean, people know crypto assets are decentralized and trade on exchanges all over the world. But what’s often overlooked is…

Layer 2 blockchain Optimism has issued its third community airdrop, with users receiving a total of 19,411,313 OP tokens worth $27 million.Over 31,000 unique addresses received the airdrop. Eligibility was determined by whether holders delegated their OP holdings to participate in governance votes.A further 570 million OP tokens have been allocated to future airdrops.Having launched

During last crypto bull market, I got into an argument with a few people I admire — the co-hosts of the “Crypto Critics Corner” podcast Bennet Thompson and Cas Piancey and pseudonymous crypto trader and renegade meme maker Poordart — about the nature of Ponzi schemes, and how they relate to blockchain protocols. In short

Binance’s Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla have been held against their will for the past two weeks by Nigerian authorities.The Nigerian government had invited the executives to discuss the current dispute with Binance, and the duo had landed in Abuja on February 25.Two senior executives of Binance, Tigran Gambaryan and Nadeem Anjarwalla, have been held

Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers can question Department of Justice witnesses about their recreational drug use during the FTX founder's fraud trial next month, a judge ruled Tuesday.Judge Lewis Kaplan, of the Southern District of New York, resolved the majority of outstanding in limine, or pretrial, motions in a 16-page order Tuesday, allowing the DOJ to admit

Oct 22, 2020 at 21:35 UTCUpdated Oct 22, 2020 at 21:38 UTC(Mario Hommes/DeFodi Images via Getty Images)Kevin ReynoldsPayPal is exploring purchases of cryptocurrency companies including bitcoin custodian firm BitGo, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The news comes a day after the payments giant announced it's entering the cryptocurrency market. A BitGo spokesperson…