True Life: I’m a Bitcoin

news The latest person to claim authorship of the bitcoin code created under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto isn’t really about claiming to be its original creator, rather he’s just out to satirize that such a thing could even be attempted at all. Wei Liu, CEO of Coinsummer, a crypto market research firm, and former CEO…

Major cryptos remained flat over the past 24 hours even as financial giant PayPal announced plans to issue a stablecoin in the coming days – suggesting overall market sentiment remains tepid despite fundamental developments.Bitcoin traded just over $29,100 in European morning hours, a level it has largely remained at since the past five days. The…

news Well, that was a bit anticlimactic. After two years of work and more than a year of hype and regulatory delays, the Bakkt bitcoin futures market had a lackluster first day of trading. When the session closed at 22:00 UTC Monday, only two daily futures contracts and 71 monthly futures contracts had traded on the new…

Japan's financial market watchdog is looking to expand its team focused on crypto-related activities next year to better handle the growing interest among Japanese companies in gaining a cryptocurrency exchange license. The Financial Services Agency hosted the fifth study group meeting on cryptocurrency Wednesday, with trading platforms, scholars, lawyers, and government officials present. Kiyotaka Sasaki,…

Web3 music platform Tune.FM has received $20 million in capital from alternative investment group LDA Capital to advance its goals of helping musicians earning a greater share of royalties from their work.Using Hedera Hashgraph's blockchain technology, Tune.FM provides musicians with a platform to receive micropayments for streaming in its native JAM token (JAM) as well

Aug 4, 2020 at 12:56 UTCUpdated Aug 4, 2020 at 13:09 UTC(Patryk Kosmider/Shutterstock)First Mover: As Fed Nears Inflation Rubicon, Analysts See $50K Bitcoin in PlayThe Federal Reserve appears ready to pursue yet another untested strategy that could ultimately boost inflation – and possibly prices for bitcoin. The Fed is “preparing to effectively abandon its strategy of pre-emptively…

The cryptocurrency market has been making history for all the wrong reasons as of late, most notably by recently surpassing the plunge of the infamous Dot-Com bubble in the early 2000's. With that said, cryptocurrencies tend to make recoveries when all hope is seemingly lost, and today's price action of the world's second largest cryptocurrency,…

Seven days after hitting the market, the T-REX 2X Long MSTR Daily Target ETF (MSTU) has become one of the most successful new exchange-traded funds (ETFs) on the market after attracting over $72 million. The fund, issued by REX Shares and Tuttle Capital Management, promises two times the daily performance to the stock of MicroStrategy

It is no secret that bitcoin mining has come under fire for its potential impact on the environment due to its energy consumption. Nobody in the industry is shying away from the fact that bitcoin did not start out as the best environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment.However, the mining industry has since become one…