SEC Subpoenas Another Firm Following Claimed Blockchain Pivot

feature Overstock is opening up trading on its security token market, tZERO, to all comers. Retail investors will be able to trade on the platform starting Aug. 12, tZERO CEO Saum Noursalehi told CoinDesk. At that point, the one year lock-up period for tZERO’s 2018 security token offering (STO) will pass. While the platform went live in…

Sep 9, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Sep 9, 2020 at 13:38 UTC(Getty Images, modified by CoinDesk)‘High’ Severity Bug in Bitcoin Software Revealed 2 Years After FixA previously undisclosed vulnerability in the Bitcoin Core software could have allowed attackers to steal funds, delay settlements or split the largest blockchain network into conflicting versions had it not…

news Ethereum test network Ropsten has forked into two separate chains following the activation of system-wide upgrade Istanbul. “It appears there are two different chains mining the Ropsten test network. There are miners mining on the old [Ropsten] chain and miners mining the new one,” explained Ethereum Foundation community manager Hudson Jameson, adding in a…

Then-candidate Donald Trump promised to stop selling seized bitcoin back in July. Experts tell CoinDesk that the incoming president might need help from Congress to establish a proper strategic reserve. While Republicans will soon have majorities in Congress, spinning up a bitcoin reserve won’t be high on their list of priorities. 02:28 Trump Pumps DeFi

Indonesian President Joko Widodo warned the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) to monitor the use of crypto and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for money laundering during a speech last Wednesday at the 22nd Anniversary of the National Movement for Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Prevention at the State Palace, Jakarta.The president said he is

Bitcoin (BTC) is all set to end August with double digit-losses, but a closer look at the price action suggest better times lie ahead for the leading cryptocurrency. At time of writing, BTC is trading at $6,940 – down 10.7 percent from the month's opening price of $7,727, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index. However,…

Nov 18, 2020 at 4:02 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 18, 2020 at 4:21 p.m. UTCFATF meeting(Hervé Cortinat/OECD)FATF Needs Entirely New Approach to Regulating Crypto, Says V20 SummitThe Financial Action Task Force (FATF) needs an entirely new approach when it comes to policing crypto, according to Sian Jones, the driving force behind much of the sector’s anti-money…

Decentralized exchange PancakeSwap released its Gaming Marketplace on Wednesday, allowing developers to directly build, publish, and update games on the platform as it targets the niche gaming finance (GameFi) market.GameFi broadly refers to gaming applications using tokens to raise funds and incentivize growth. Some of these projects, such as Axie Infinity, were among the top-performing

news With February’s crypto market activity now etched in the record books, signs are emerging that a long crypto winter may be close to an end. The total market value of all cryptocurrencies jumped 14.14 percent over the 28-day period – the first monthly gain since July, according to CoinMarketCap, largely due to signs of life…