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Crypto custody can be a challenging topic, as there are many options investors and advisors face when considering the storage, security and accessibility of digital assets. In today's main article, Todd Bendell, from Amphibian Capital, discusses the different custody options financial advisors need to know.Meredith Yarbrough from LaHoja Capital Partners answers questions about bitcoin custody

NEWS Police in Tokyo have arrested eight men alleged to have run a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme that collected 7.8 billion yen (almost $69 million) from thousands of victims across the country. According to a report from The Asahi Shimbun on Wednesday, the men were suspected by the police of breaking the country’s financial laws by…

Crypto wallet provider Blockchain has hired a former bank executive to augment its legal team. Ben Melnicki, formerly Noble Bank's chief compliance officer, has taken on the position of global regulatory counsel at the Luxembourg-based firm, Blockchain announced Thursday. In his new role, Melnicki will join Blockchain president and chief legal officer Marco Santori in…

Credit: Library of CongressNew Software Fix Offers Bitcoin Miners Increased SecurityThe company behind the world's sixth-largest bitcoin mining pool has released software that aims to patch several security problems with such pools.The software, included in the BOSminer software suite, is the first working implementation of Stratum V2, the protocol that Prague-based startup Braiins released a…

Scammers have stolen millions in crypto pretending to be HitBTC, a little known crypto exchange founded in 2013, the team of MistTrack crypto compliance platform said in a tweet Monday morning. MistTrack belongs to the SlowMist company, which is focused on cybersecurity in crypto.According to the researchers, someone has set up the website hitbt2c.lol, mimicking…

Yet another stablecoin has just launched – this time from a blockchain startup founded with the explicit aim of taking on the controversial but dominant tether (USDT) token. Stably announced Thursday that its StableUSD (USDS) is now available for purchase and redemption. The token is backed by U.S. dollars held in escrow by Prime Trust, a…

opinion Sid Kalla, CFA and Bradley Miles are co-founders of Roll, an open standard for social money on the ethereum blockchain. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  Over long time periods, bitcoin’s returns have been uncorrelated to the stock, bond or commodity markets. Even though bitcoin has been highly volatile,…

news Bitcoin mining giant Bitmain is said to have confidentially filed for an initial public offering (IPO) with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Sponsored by Deutsche Bank, the offering was filed with the SEC earlier this week before a recent management shakeup saw the ousting of Bitmain co-founder and executive director Micree Ketuan Zhan Oct.…

As decentralized finance, or DeFi, continues to evolve and mature, the concept of total value locked – a measure of how much money users have stashed in a given protocol – has also gained significant attention. Originally focused on digital assets such as cryptocurrencies, TVL has expanded to include tokenized real-world assets (RWA), providing a