Australia gets first spot ETF that holds Bitcoin directly

A consortium of companies launched a gold-backed token with the DGLD ticker on a Bitcoin (BTC) sidechain.Swiss financial news outlet AllNews reported on Oct. 15 that digital asset managers CoinShares and MKS, as well as wallet service provider Blockchain, announced the launch of the token. Its development took two years and the supply of the…

According to a recent Chainalysis report, thefts resulting from crypto hacks and exploits have totaled $1.58 billion in 2024.

Bitcoin’s price broke below its 55-day resistance at $27,000 on May 12, down 12.3% in 30 days. But more importantly, it decoupled from the S&P 500 Index, which is basically flat from 30 days ago and 15% below its all-time high.Bitcoin price in USD (right) vs. S&P 500 futures (left), 12-hour. Source: TradingViewAs the chart…

The Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology (Finhub) at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will host a series of local peer-to-peer (p2p) meetups across the country. The initiative, which aims to engage more actively with the crypto and wider fintech community, was announced via the agency’s website on March 6.As previously…

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Neogen Corporation, a publicly-traded food safety company with a $3.75 billion market cap, looks to food industry blockchain startup Ripe Technology to track supply chains. According to the press release, the two companies are going to work together to use blockchain as a permanent, immutable means to record the whole production process of food consumption and…

Due to the transition of many people around the world into a “stay at home” mode, where the only viable way of communicating and receiving something is through the global network, some new information regarding darknet activity has begun to surface. In the time of COVID-19, there has been an increase in both the activity of…

As the start date of the trial of FTX co-founder Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried approaches, new court filings indicate that SBF could pay his expert witnesses more than $1,000 an hour should they testify on his behalf.SBF may call seven expert witnesses to testify at his fraud trial, which is currently scheduled for Oct. 2, 2023. The