The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…
Money Reimagined: How Ethereum 2.0’s ‘Lockup’ Will Drive…
The “Summer of DeFi” might be over, but a looming event will give DeFi engineers a great incentive to crank up their “lego” innovation model and build more decentralized finance products: the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade. (See…
Blockchain Bites: OKEx Freezes Withdrawals, DeFi Audits Queue,…
OKEx has frozen withdrawals, audit firms are experiencing a backlog of DeFi projects and the Trump administration is examining DLT for national defense. Top shelf Audit (back)logsCrypto code audit firms say they are swamped with decentralized…
Stone Ridge’s 10k Bitcoin Bet Shows Changing Sentiment…
New York-based asset managers Stone Ridge confirms 10k Bitcoin ($115 million) holding in its treasury. Stone Ridge purchased the Bitcoin via subsidiary firm New York Digital Investment Group (NYDIG), one of the few companies with…
Stimulus Drama, DOJ’s Crypto Guidelines, & More: A…
The week began in a rather chaotic place: last Friday, news that the founders of crypto derivatives exchange, BitMEX had been indicted was nearly eclipsed by news that United States President Donald Trump had been…
Crypto For Congress Puts “American-Made” Bitcoin Into The…
This week, the Chamber of Digital Commerce sent all 535 members of the United States Congress about 0.0047 BTC ($50 worth at the time), in an effort to educate the country’s legislators around cryptocurrency and…
Crypto for Congress: Bitcoin Sent to All Congress…
The Crypto for Congress initiative has launched. All members of Congress will be given bitcoin as campaign contributions to help them learn about cryptocurrency. The initiative is supported by Congressional Blockchain Caucus members, including pro-crypto…
BitMEX charges, Bitcoin stays calm, KuCoin ‘identifies’ hack…
Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest tracks every important crypto news story from the previous week. Essential reading for all Hodlers! Top Stories This Week CFTC charges BitMEX with illegally operating derivatives exchange The…
Money Reimagined: Trump, Crypto and Fairer Taxes
For Democrats, it was a moment of truth. For Republicans, it was “fake news.” Among some members of the crypto commentariat, there was a very different reaction to The New York Times’ recent scoop on…
Political Prosecution Of Julian Assange Calls For Nonviolent…
On October 1, 2020, WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange’s extradition hearing at the Old Bailey in London came to an end. What unfolded during 18 days of hearings was a Kafkaesque show-trial of a free press,…
Trump Contracts COVID, BitMEX Founders Indicted: A Chaotic…
After a fairly uneventful news week, Friday has brought a few developments that are rather–shall we say, unexpected. Beyond the crypto world, United States President Donald Trump announced on Twitter this morning that he and…
Blockchain Bites: Dorsey Challenges Coinbase, Nasdaq Lists Diginex,…
The Australian government is investing big in modern technology, Nasdaq saw its first crypto exchange operator listing and revenues are surging for Ethereum miners amid increased network activity. Top shelf Australia modernizesAustralia will commit A$800…
What Happens if Big Tech Only Gets Bigger?
Amy Webb, a quantitative futurist and founder of the strategic foresight firm Future Today Institute, thinks the world can, indeed, get worse. In her most recent book “2020 Tech Trend Report: Strategic Trends that Will…
US Senate Candidate Is a Hodler, Sees Bitcoin…
US Senate candidate Cynthia Lummis is pro-bitcoin. She bought her first bitcoin during her time in Congress. Now she calls herself a hodler and sees the cryptocurrency as a viable alternative store of value to…
Blockchain Bites: CZ’s Exclusive Interview, California’s Souped-Up Regulator,…
California beefed up its financial regulator, Bitpanda closed a notable raise and some investors say “alt-season” is over. Top shelf Brokerage raiseEuropean crypto brokerage Bitpanda has raised a $52 million Series A led by Peter Thiel’s Valar…
WTF happened in 1971 (and why the f**k…
If you’ve ventured on to Crypto Twitter this year, you may have seen a tweet from the meme account WTF Happened in 1971? Created in March, the account posts numerous times a week to its…
Bitcoin ATMs Surpass 10,100 Worldwide: Expert Shares Industry…
The bitcoin ATM industry has reached a milestone as the number of machines installed worldwide has surpassed 10,000 after seven years since the first machine was installed. There are now 10,162 bitcoin ATM locations spread…
Blockchain Bites: Uniswap’s Token, Kraken’s Bank, Bitcoin’s Newbies
Uniswap issued a governance token, Kraken is the world’s first crypto bank and there are more “newbie” bitcoin investors than any time in the past two years. Top shelf Crypto’s bankKraken Financial, a newly formed division…
Ecological Sanity Is Compatible With Human Freedom
In the early days, Bitcoin proposed a simple model of how the world could be transformed: The free market was going to produce inflation-proof money with strong privacy features, which could be used to avoid…
Report: Market Valuation of 14 Banking Giants Shed…
The world’s largest banks lost a considerable amount of market valuation amid the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a new report that estimates financial incumbents lost $635 billion. Between December 2019 and August 2020, the market…
Bitcoin market cap will match JPMorgan’s if the…
The sentiment around Bitcoin (BTC) has become noticeably positive after the breakout above $12,000 in August. If this momentum continuously strengthens over the medium term and BTC hits $16,500, it would equal JPMorgan’s market cap.…
DeFi carnage, Chef Nomi’s admission, $625K prize for…
Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest tracks every important crypto news story from the previous week. Essential reading for all Hodlers! Top Stories This Week DeFi goes boom as top tokens crash by 50%…
Global P2P trade volume plummets amid crypto crash
The recent crypto market slump has driven massive trade volumes on centralized exchanges, but peer-to-peer (P2P) trading platforms actually saw a sharp decline in activity. Latin-America was the only region to buck the trend. The…
Unlimited QE and an Index Portfolio: How Fed…
In mid-August the U.S. stock market defied odds and mainstream media claimed after the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index touched new heights on August 18, it ‘officially’ ended the “shortest bear market in history.” Interestingly…
Akon Unveils Major Details of $6 Billion Cryptocurrency…
Akon has released detailed plans of Akon City, his $6 billion futuristic cryptocurrency city, which he calls a “real-life Wakanda,” referring to the hit movie Black Panther. There will be seven major districts, and the…
Akon Joins Presidential Campaign of Bitcoin Entrepreneur Brock…
Akon has joined bitcoin entrepreneur Brock Pierce’s 2020 campaign to become the president of the United States. Akon will serve as the chief strategist for the Pierce campaign while building his “futuristic” Akon City in…
Minereum Launches Crypto Bond With up To 50%…
Dex Platforms Trade Over $2.4 Billion in 7 Days, Defi Swaps up 68% Since Last Week Years ago the cryptocurrency community did not have access to a plethora of decentralized exchanges (dex). In 2020 with…
Bittrex Global Announces Listing of Sensorium (SENSO)
Dex Platforms Trade Over $2.4 Billion in 7 Days, Defi Swaps up 68% Since Last Week Years ago the cryptocurrency community did not have access to a plethora of decentralized exchanges (dex). In 2020 with…
INX Limited Announces Effectiveness of Security Token IPO
Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Trusts from Grayscale Investments Begin Trading Grayscale Investments’ Litecoin Trust (LTCN) and Bitcoin Cash Trust (BCHG) have received DTC eligibility on Monday, which means the shares can begin trading publicly. The…
Bitcoin.com Wallet Launches Cred’s 1-Touch “Earn” Button
Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Trusts from Grayscale Investments Begin Trading Grayscale Investments’ Litecoin Trust (LTCN) and Bitcoin Cash Trust (BCHG) have received DTC eligibility on Monday, which means the shares can begin trading publicly. The…
OCC Chief Says Americans Gravitating Toward Digital Currencies:…
Brian Brooks, the acting comptroller of currency at the U.S. Office of Comptroller of Currency (OCC), says America must adopt digital currency payment rails if the country hopes to compete with global payment rails in…
Bitcoin Bull Market Things? 3 Factors Suggest More…
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has increased from $9,088 to $11,800 since July 1 by more than 30%. With it, the volume of top-tier cryptocurrency exchanges has surged to a staggering $334 billion. A report…
Bitcoin Bull Market Things? Top Exchange Volume Soars…
The price of Bitcoin (BTC) has increased from $9,088 to $11,800 since July 1 by more than 30%. With it, the volume of top-tier cryptocurrency exchanges has surged to a staggering $334 billion. A report…
Bitcoin and Tesla: America’s Most Loved Assets on…
Tradingview said Friday that bitcoin and Tesla, the electric car maker and clean energy firm, are America’s most viewed assets on the charting platform. Bitcoin (BTC) has climbed over 60% year-to-date, with the price reaching…
Why It’s Time to Pay Attention to Mexico’s…
Luis Sosa, 39, the creative director at a startup in Mexico City, watched with skepticism as his friends invested in bitcoin a decade ago. Even after they made good on their investments, Sosa kept his…
Crypto Roundup: August 10th, 2020
Bitcoin kick-started the week by popping above $12,000 as the dollar dropped as the Asian market opened. This sudden rally reflects the cryptocurrency’s fresh appeal as a safe haven asset. Bitcoin has caught bids alongside…
Oracle Tokens Continue Rallying Even as Bitcoin Uptrend…
Oracle tokens LINK and BAND continues heading higher despite a bearish correction phase in the rest of the crypto market. The rallies show traders’ growing speculation of the DeFi cryptocurrencies. On a day when the…
US Congressmen Want IRS to Balance Taxation and…
A bipartisan quartet of US congressmen wants the IRS taxation policy not to dissuade taxpayers from participating in blockchain token staking. These politicians believe America’s ingenuity can help drive this promising staking technology. The four…
Bitcoin Flash Crash Explained, And How To Prepare…
Overnight on Saturday, in the late hours of the night, Bitcoin price flash crashed by over 10% and $1,400 in just ten minutes. But what caused such a massive crash in the cryptocurrency, and how…
US Deadlock Over Stimulus Keeps Bitcoin Cautious; What…
Bitcoin began trading cautiously on Monday as US lawmakers struggled to finalize a stimulus plan following its expiry on July 31. The critical point of difference between Democrats and Republicans continues to be the proposed…
Remembering The Kodak Crypto ICO As Stock Prices…
Bitcoin’s signature volatility is finally returning, but not even the crypto market has been pumping like Kodak stocks. The photography powerhouse surged Wednesday as high as 500% intraday following news the Trump administration tapped the…
Blockchain Bites: OCC’s Crypto Letter, Eth 2.0’s ‘Official’…
The OCC will allow banks to custody crypto, Visa has a digital currency playbook and a digital dollar is essential to America’s economic edge, said experts at a U.S. Senate hearing. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily…
ModiHost’s Token Is Live on HitBTC, the Leading…
Gifts and Remittances: Bitcoin.com's New Tools Allow People to Send BCH via Email This month Bitcoin.com launched two services that help facilitate bitcoin cash adoption and crypto remittance via email. In a recent video on…
Weed Out the Soviet-Era Ponzi Scheme Eating Ethereum
Lex Sokolin, a CoinDesk columnist, is Global Fintech co-head at ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based blockchain software company. The following is adapted from his Fintech Blueprint newsletter. We have a beautiful Ethereum garden. In it, we grow cash…
Bitcoin Entrepreneur Brock Pierce Joins the 2020 US…
Blockchain entrepreneur and former Disney child actor, Brock Pierce, is running for President of the United States this election. Pierce announced he was running during America’s Independence Day celebration on July 4, the same day…
Bitcoin-Friendly Kanye West Running for US President 2020,…
Kanye West announced on Independence Day that he is running for president of the United States in 2020, taking on Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden. Responding to the bitcoin-friendly singer with 21…
4th Amendment Does Not Protect Bitcoin Data, US…
A Fifth Circuit panel of judges recently ruled that Fourth Amendment rights do not apply to cryptocurrency transaction data that stems from an exchange. The U.S. court ruled against the defendant, Richard Gratkowski, who attempted…
John Perry Barlow: A Declaration of the Independence…
Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us…
‘Casino Jack’ Abramoff Charged in AML Bitcoin Cryptocurrency…
Jack Abramoff, the lobbyist behind one of the biggest Washington lobbying scandals as portrayed in the feature film Casino Jack, has been charged in connection with AML bitcoin cryptocurrency. He faces returning to jail after…
US Real Estate Market Crisis: 4.3 Million Mortgage…
The U.S. economy continues to look bleak as the American citizens and small businesses nationwide struggle to keep up with the government’s rules toward Covid-19 guidelines. In just 13 weeks, over 45 million Americans filed…
7-Eleven, CVS, Rite Aid: Libertyx Adds 20,000 Stores…
Libertyx has expanded its network to include 20,000 7-Eleven, CVS, and Rite Aid Pharmacy stores where customers can buy bitcoin with cash. They can also buy bitcoin using debit cards at one of Libertyx’s vast…
‘It Does Nothing’ — Buy Bitcoin, Don’t Protest,…
Bitcoin (BTC) is the only effective way for Americans to empower themselves and protests do not work, popular TV personality Max Keiser has said. In the latest edition of his RT show the Keiser Report…
International Bank Remittances Need Blockchain Technology Today
How do you ascend from good to great? Look inside an innovative sector early in its development, and you’ll often find the foundation in place to enable a quick transition: companies and consumers alike that…
Dollar Crash Imminent, Former Morgan Stanley Chief Economist…
Stephen Roach, former chief economist at Morgan Stanley, has predicted that a dollar crash is coming, forecasting a 35% drop in the dollar’s value against other major currencies. He expects the U.S. national savings rate…
Limitless Bailouts: US Federal Reserve Announces Billion-Dollar Corporate…
During the last three months, the U.S. Federal Reserve has created a system of monetary avarice, as the central bank can literally do whatever it wants with zero oversight. The American public recently witnessed the…
Youtube Reinstates Bitcoin.com’s Official Channel After Suspension
Just recently, the official Bitcoin.com Youtube channel was suspended and removed from the popular video platform. During the last 12 months, Youtube has censored information and banned cryptocurrency video coverage with no remorse. As the…
Ayn Rand: Francisco d’Anconia’s Speech on Money
“So you think that money is the root of all evil?” said Francisco d’Anconia. “Have you ever asked what is the root of money? Money is a tool of exchange, which can’t exist unless there…
After Congress’ Digital Dollar Hearing, What’s Next?
Yesterday, during a remote session held at 12:00 PM EST, the United States Congress Financial Services Committee heard testimony from four “witnesses” on the creation of a digital dollar. These included Mehrsa Baradaran, a Professor…
The US Congress’ Digital Dollar Hearing is Today:…
Just a year or two ago, the concept of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)–particularly in the United States–was novel. It was interesting, certainly–however, most of the world regarded CBDCs as esoteric technology that certainly…
The Crypto Community Needs to Stand Up and…
Robert Greenfield is the CEO of Emerging Impact, a benefit corporation that supports NGOs and government agencies to leverage blockchain technology in social protection. Previously he was head of Social Impact & Diversity Programming at…
2020 Libertarian Presidential Candidate Jo Jorgensen Talks Bitcoin,…
On June 8, news.Bitcoin.com chatted with the U.S. 2020 Libertarian candidate for president, Joanne Jorgensen. The Libertarian Party’s nominee for president is the party’s first female candidate and she is a firm believer in free…
Leaked Pentagon War Game Shows Gen Z Using…
The United States has been creating military simulations, otherwise known as ‘war games,’ for years now. In fact, the Pentagon and various professional analysts created a permanent war gaming facility for simulations. This week a…
Bonus Army, Occupiers, 2020 Uprising: Bitcoin’s Peaceful Protest…
For twelve days straight, American citizens and a number of countries around the world have been protesting the oligarchs and police brutality. The restlessness from the uprising has slowed down some, but continues in various…
Money Reimagined: The Ongoing Crisis Is Stirring a…
Regular readers of this column will know about the recent surge in African peer-to-peer bitcoin transactions, now at more than $12 million a week, according to Useful Tulips. I think this, and similar patterns across…
Blockchain Bites: Why UN and Federal Reserve Experts…
U.N. and Federal Reserve experts independently researched central bank digital currencies and found they could effectively compete with the commercial banking system. Meanwhile, New York State and France have entered into a regulatory agreement and…
First Mover: Bitcoin Market, Like Wall Street, Shrugs…
There, in the midst of a protest against police brutality in Austin, Texas, stood a man holding a makeshift cardboard sign that read, “Bitcoin will save us.” The image, tweeted earlier this week by the ProPublica journalist Jessica…
US Government Prediction: Economy Faces 10-Year Recovery, $8…
The U.S. Congressional Budget Office has projected that the coronavirus crisis will cost the U.S. economy about $8 trillion. Many factors play a part in shrinking the economy, such as business closures, social distancing measures,…
From SARS to COVID-19: Hong Kong’s Path to…
Bats are a known harbor to a large variety of viruses. Humans rarely interact with bats directly (they are not a common delicacy or pet in China), but other wild animals, such as civets and…
As Political Unrest Unfolds, Bitcoin Tests $10k Again–Will…
Yesterday, the price of Bitcoin briefly passed over $10,000–shooting up from roughly $9,700 to around $10,120 over the course of several hours, in the first stage of what turned out to be a nearly perfect…
US Law Enforcement Promises $5M for the Capture…
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), has put out a bounty for $5 million for the arrest and conviction of Venezuela’s superintendent of cryptocurrency. Joselit de la Trinidad Ramirez Camacho…
With Riots Erupting in US Cities, Using Tools…
During the last six days, America has been feeling the wrath of a myriad of protests and riots in nearly every major city across the nation. The U.S. is experiencing an uprising like never before,…
American Panic Led to the Creation and Expansion…
The Federal Reserve System was created after the “Panic of 1907” and ever since its inception in 1913, the Fed is one of the most powerful modern central banks in the world. Moreover, the Fed…
Cryptocurrencies Spread 4X Faster in Undeveloped Countries: Blockchain…
During the month of April, the blockchain project Onfo initiated an experiment to see how fast crypto assets can gain popularity in four different countries. The team’s findings discovered that cryptocurrencies spread four times faster…
Blow to Bitcoin as Latest BofA Survey Finds…
Bitcoin and traditional markets logged a synchronous rally after crashing almost in tandem in March 2020. But the recovery has not impressed a vast majority of global fund managers, according to a survey conducted by…
This Is Not Capitalism: How Covid-19 Shined a…
In the last few months, giant American corporations and financial incumbents that are subsidized by the U.S. government, have profited immensely during the coronavirus outbreak. This has caused certain groups of people and those who…
US Real Estate Crisis: Home Sales Plunge to…
The US real estate market is facing a crisis as unemployment soars amid the coronavirus pandemic. Home sales have plunged to a nine-year low and a record-high number of homeowners are defaulting on their mortgage…
Generations of Debt: US Taxpayers Held Liable for…
The central banking system in the U.S. and the country’s megabanks have manipulated the economy for quite some time and these days, the coronavirus has been a great excuse to create trillions for stimulus. A…
The American Empire Is in Decline. Time for…
Lex Sokolin, a CoinDesk columnist, is Global Fintech co-head at ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based blockchain software company. The following is adapted from his Fintech Blueprint newsletter. The hard thing about abundance is making a choice. We live…
Crypto Long & Short: Mining Derivatives Point to…
Well, it happened. Block 630,000 was processed on the Bitcoin blockchain (while we were on the air with our Crypto Long & Short show on Monday, how cool is that!), and the bitcoin subsidy paid…
Bullish for Crypto: Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet Explodes…
Both the crypto market and the stock market have recovered strongly since the March lows, but capital markets remain tight. So tight that to save individuals and corporations across weight classes, so to say, the…
Blockchain Bites: The Government Won’t ‘Kill DeFi’ but…
Top Shelf Progress must keep pace with need. An overriding theme during day three of Consensus: Distributed was that the pace of technological development - driven by interconnected but diffuse organizations - must keep up…
Buying Corporate Bonds and ETFs: US Federal Reserve…
The U.S. Federal Reserve has continued its schemes of monetary easing and funding a number of private banks during the Covid-19 outbreak. On Monday evening, the Fed revealed it would be buying corporate bonds and…
US Central Bank Blamed for 2020 Financial Crash:…
The last two months dealing with the coronavirus outbreak have been strange, to say the least, and as data rolls in more people are becoming aware that there was quite a bit of overreaction from…
Bitcoin ATM Locations Surge to Over 7700 Worldwide…
The number of bitcoin ATM locations has been growing rapidly amid nationwide lockdowns and the coronavirus crisis. With hundreds of new machines added each month, there are now more than 7,700 bitcoin ATMs spread all…
US Treasury to ‘Borrow’ $3 Trillion for a…
On Monday, the United States Department of the Treasury announced it will be “borrowing” a record $3 trillion to help support the American economy. The move comes after the Federal Reserve dished out over $6…
The Man Who Forecast a Currency Cold War
Many of the impacts of COVID-19 are easy to grasp. Every day we see the gutting news: the rising body count, the millions of unemployed, the makeshift morgues in public parks. We grieve for those…
US Real Estate Market Shudders: Experts Predict 40%…
According to the National Association of Realtors, pending contracts for property sales dropped by 20.8% in March. Further, the 30-year fixed mortgage interest rate dropped to 3.43%, but a great majority of people are still…
Data Shows the US Economy Was Collapsing 5…
During the last two months, the global economy has shuddered and a great number of people still attribute the financial meltdown to the Covid-19 outbreak. However, during the last two weeks, the blame has shifted,…
Famed Economist Speaks: ‘US Coronavirus Bailout Scam,’ American…
During the last few weeks, the world has been dealing with the coronavirus outbreak. These days, however, many of the world’s citizens are growing more concerned over the government’s reactions than the virus itself. Moreover,…
Blockchain Bites: What the Bitcoin Halving Means for…
Predictions and price models proliferate ahead of Bitcoin's programmatic halving, expected in less than two weeks. While some are turning to esoteric economic models to make the claim that the occasion will be bullish for…
The Greatest Wealth Transfer: Economists Predict the Emergence…
The global economy has been feeling the hardships from the mandated lockdowns various nation states have implemented during the last month and a half. Oil prices have dropped below zero for the first time in…
Bitcoin Fungibility, Mixing and the Legal Limits on…
On February 13, 2020, Larry Harmon, of Akron, Ohio, was charged with three counts: (1) conspiracy to commit money laundering, (2) operating an unlicensed money transmitting business and (3) conducting money transmission without a DC…
Why Global Deflation May Not Be Bad News…
Contrary to expectations, bitcoin could see a positive performance during a possible bout of global deflation if it acts not just as an investment asset, but as a medium of exchange and a perceived safe…