Canadian social media company Kik has announced a crowdfunding effort aimed to help it — and other cryptocurrency firms — fight the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The battle that sparked the effort focuses on the company’s 2017 initial coin offering, where it sold...
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance moved a whopping $1.26 billion worth of bitcoin on Wednesday (May 29). “We will be moving some funds between our cold wallets. A tell-tale sign of a new cold wallet on Binance is two small transfers from and BACK TO an existing...
A European Central Bank (ECB) official is throwing his support towards wholesale central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). In fact, Vitas Vasiliauskas, a member of the Governing Council of the ECB and chairman of the board of the Bank of Lithuania, said the real issue at...
JPMorgan Chase has revealed to CoinDesk that its blockchain team has created a privacy feature for ethereum-based blockchains. The feature, which is an extension to the Zether protocol, not only hides how much money is being sent, but also who is sending it. It works...
Bitcoin reached $8,937.25 early on Monday (May 27) — its highest level in more than 12 months. And analysts have pointed to a boost on Google Trends for the keyword ‘bitcoin,’ which might suggest renewed interest in the crypto. In fact, Crypto Rand, a website...
Startup dloop AG has developed an app that allows digital artworks to be distributed and financed. Swisscom is launching the product, called NOOW, which will display art so that the artist and a buyer will know how many copies have been distributed. The service will...
Dutch bank Rabobank announced it will not proceed with its plans for a cryptocurrency wallet called Rabobit. “After careful consideration with our customers in mind, we recently decided that now is not the time to develop the idea further and bring it to the next...
There is some very big news for early investors in Block.one: The cryptocurrency startup will return as much as 6,567 percent in less than three years. That is $6.6 million for a $100,000 stake. “Block.one is very much the odd one out in the crypto...
Self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright has been awarded registrations for a white paper and early computer code related to the cryptocurrency. The U.S. Copyright Office named the Australian computer scientist as the author of the marketing proposal and code for bitcoin, under the pseudonym Satoshi...
