Asset manager says Trump admin may make Bitcoin strategic reserve asset

Crypto and blockchain regulations seem to have become a top priority in the EU. The European Commission in collaboration with the 30-country alliance called the European Blockchain Partnership (EBP) plans to launch a pan-European blockchain regulatory sandbox by 2022.Per an update to the official webpage for the commission’s Digital Innovation and Blockchain team on Sep.…

A group of eight Crypto Valley experts says the upcoming Bitcoin halving will be very different from those in the past. With the Bitcoin halving just four days away, CV Lab, an incubator and co-working space for blockchain companies, along with Cointelegraph, invited a group of eight experts from Switzerland Crypto Valley for a live…

Grayscale's flagship Bitcoin fund had no competition from the newly-launched ETF products in their first seven days, figures show. 1152 Total views 24 Total shares Bitcoin (BTC) investment vehicle the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) outperformed the newly-launched exchange-traded funds (ETFs) last week, data shows.Figures shared by Grayscale executives among others confirm that GBTC quietly delivered…

Privacy coins and zero-knowledge technology, which some use to obfuscate the identity of sends/receivers and transaction amounts, have gained enormous popularity in recent years due to mounting regulatory surveillance against the crypto sector. But despite their rapid rise in market cap, critics continue to scrutinize such class of assets as enablers for masking illicit activities.In…

Many in the crypto community believed that US President Donald Trump’s second-term election would send Bitcoin prices skyrocketing, and it did — from $69,374 on Election Day (Nov. 5) to a record $108,786 when the new administration took office on Jan. 20.  But since that time, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) has mostly fallen, dropping

As the value and popularity of digital assets continue to rise, cybercriminals are incentivized to exploit any vulnerabilities they can find.

Ross Ulbricht turns 36 years old today. This will be his seventh birthday in incarceration.Ulbricht is the convicted felon serving two life sentences plus 40 years for his role in creating the Silk Road, the online contraband market notorious for its associations with cryptocurrency. Ulbricht says Silk Road was initially envisioned as a libertarian paradise,…

White hat hackers have earned $32,000 in bounties over the last two months by reporting security holes in crypto and blockchain projects, according to a report by Hard Fork on May 20.This lump sum of over $30,000 was distributed by 15 firms from March 28 to May 16 and documented in 30 public bug reports,…

Speaking at BlockShow Asia 2019, Proof of Capital managing partner Edith Yeung called out American regulators for leaving blockchain-based ventures in the dark.These companies are commonly domiciled in Singapore, Switzerland, or Hong Kong because “they have no idea of what is happening in the US. They don’t want to touch it because of the legal…