The Bitcoin community has juggled multiple reports and speculations over the past few weeks, all regarding Grayscale’s BTC accumulation, a development that in the minds of many, represents the rise of institutional investors. However, hypnotized by developments such as these, people tend to forget about the market’s reliance on retail investors just a few months …
There is a constant free market competition to define the Bitcoin narrative, and Kraken’s Dan Held argues this is part of what makes the protocol so strong. Satoshi Nakamoto is often recognized for his technical genius in solving the double-spending problem. He is also widely revered for his willingness to walk away from the protocol …
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Quick Take To date, Cosmos has been able to avoid the concentration of exchanges within its validators Binance is the only significant exchange with an influential presence on Cosmos, where it is the third-largest validator with approximately $29.8 million This trend will likely change as more exchanges, like Coinbase and Kraken, launch staking support for …
The National Police of Spain said vendors’ “purchase of virtual currency stands out.” They arrested 33 suspects across two parallel raids. Source link
Sergey Medvedev, a Russian national who operated a digital currency escrow service for the $568 million payment card fraud forum he founded in 2010, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in what the U.S. government called its largest ever cyber fraud case. Medvedev, 33, admitted in his June 26 plea before the U.S. District Court for …
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In a bid to breathe new life into its market for crypto derivatives, Hong Kong-based CoinFLEX is relaunching its platform and focusing on what it says will bring a digital asset twist to the repo market. Launched in 2019, CoinFLEX first emerged as a marketplace for physically-delivered futures. Despite some initial success, the firm has …
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Matic Network announced Sunday that the first iteration of its staking solution was now live. Launched in stages, direct staking will initially be restricted to the Matic Foundation, the non-profit behind the Ethereum-based scaling solution, which will stake tokens on users’ behalf, the company said in a press release. The Matic Network is a dapp-ready …
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Following the latest market dip, Litecoin’s value lost momentum and fell close to its previous support level. At the time of writing, LTC was being traded at $41.14. The seventh-largest cryptocurrency had noted a minor uptick over the past couple of weeks which coincided with rising on-chain metrics. However, the abrupt fall further dragged the …
The most popular blockchain-related terms across all active trademarks in the U.S. are “Blockchain” and “Cryptocurrency,” according to The Block’s recent research findings. The total number of “Blockchain” and “Cryptocurrency” mentions within live trademark — referring to active ones that have not been abandoned — were 2646 and 2382, respectively. “Bitcoin,” “Initial Coin Offering,” and …
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Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn is assistant professor of International Political Economy at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is editor of the book Bitcoin and Beyond. Moritz Hütten is researcher on blockchains and the future of work at Darmstadt Business School, in Germany. The Travel Rule officially extends to ‘virtual asset services providers’ (VASPs) this …