Reintroduced Congressional Bill Would Call for Feds to Study Terrorist Uses for Crypto

An arbitration body in China has ruled that despite the country's central bank's ban on cryptocurrency trading, bitcoin should still be legally protected as a property with economic values. The Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration published a case analysis on Thursday via WeChat, detailing its ruling on a recent economic dispute that involved a business…

Mar 30, 2020 at 04:00 UTCA crypto derivatives platform that has primarily focused servicing Asia is looking to set up shop in the U.S. Singapore-based Bitget said Friday it had registered with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) as a money services business ahead of plans for a full-scale launch in the…

The average BTC acquisition cost of most addresses is less than the cryptocurrency's going market rate.The surge in the so-called "in the money" addresses has bullish implications.Bitcoin's (BTC) recent bullish momentum has most bitcoin-holding blockchain addresses sitting on unrealized gains on their investments.More than 97% of BTC addresses are now "in the money," according to

Oct 7, 2020 at 14:40 UTCUpdated Oct 7, 2020 at 14:43 UTCFinancial conglomerate SBI Holdings’ market infrastructure subsidiary, SBI Liquidity Market said Wednesday that it has acquired the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange TaoTao from the Z Corporation for an undisclosed sum.TaoTao will become a wholly owned subsidiary of SBILM under the deal's terms.The pair said they…

May 30, 2020 at 13:00 UTCStablecoins Are the Bridge From Central Banks to Consumer PaymentsAlexander Lipton is the CTO of Sila, a visiting professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Jerusalem Business School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Connection Science Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. As many still wait to receive…

May 20, 2020 at 14:11 UTCUpdated May 20, 2020 at 14:31 UTCThe new U.S. Space Force is one branch of the military that could benefit from blockchain usage, a new think tank report says. (Credit: United Launch Alliance / U.S. Air Force)The U.S. Department of Defense can’t afford to lose the global military blockchain race…

NEW YORK – Two months before Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire collapsed, Bahamian Prime Minister Philip Davis asked the crypto mogul to speak with the politician’s son about an NFT project he was consulting for, according to an email presented Tuesday as evidence by prosecutors.The premier’s September 2022 request to Bankman-Fried underscores the cozy relationship he enjoyed

Think of the biggest knocks on crypto: Cryptocurrencies like bitcoin aren’t “real,” because they’re not backed by hard assets in the real world; They’re highly speculative, and the yo-yoing prices can doom unsophisticated investors; often they’re even ridiculous, with meme-coins and cartoon apes selling for millions.You don’t have to agree with these critiques. (I don’t,…

Jun 19, 2020 at 10:19 UTCUpdated Jun 19, 2020 at 10:34 UTCJimmy Nguyen, Bitcoin Association President (Bitcoin Association)Another day, another spat in the crypto space… The president of the Bitcoin Association, the entity behind Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV), has accused Binance of cherry picking its relationships with the cryptocurrency project after news came out earlier…