Bitcoin Investment Make Sense in Current Economic Climate: Former Fed Governor

What happens when traditional private credit meets the Web3 on-chain investment opportunity of real-world assets? As decentralized finance, smart contracts and crypto evolve, more products are built on-chain, reflecting products prevalent in traditional finance while taking advantage of blockchain functionalities. Kelly Chambers from KellytheWriter explains the evolution of real-world asset private on-chain credit.Bryan Courchesne from

news Daniel Evans is part of the team that started the Gibraltar Stock Exchange (GSX), which is now open for security token listings. Opinions are his own. The excitement about Libra is premature. Maybe Zuck’s got more to share, but right now there’s very little information, and Libra has a lot to prove. Libra’s main…

news A U.S. news article has been stored in its entirety onto the ethereum blockchain, in what its writer claims is a world first. Maria Bustillos, editor with the journalist-owned Popula news site, announced Monday that she had archived an article originally published in Death and Taxes magazine onto the ethereum in full, as well as…

Aug 28, 2020 at 16:21 UTCUpdated Aug 28, 2020 at 16:43 UTCRobinhood (Opture Design/Shutterstock)Trading platform Robinhood announced on Thursday it hired two executives to lead compliance work on its financial and securities teams. According to an announcement posted on Robinhood’s website, Norm Askensas, formerly head of compliance for Fidelity Institutional, will lead compliance for the company's…

news Bakkt may not be able to launch its planned bitcoin futures exchange this month as planned, but that isn’t stopping the company from developing its projects. CEO Kelly Loeffler announced Monday that the New York Stock Exchange–backed startup was acquiring “certain assets” belonging to Rosenthal Collins Group (RCG), an independent futures commission merchant. RCG had…

Feb 12, 2020 at 19:49 UTCOhio resident Larry Dean Harmon, 36, has been charged with laundering more than $300 million in bitcoin for darknet marketplace AlphaBay.The man from Bath Township, about 30 miles south of Cleveland, was arrested Feb. 6 for conspiracy to commit money laundering, operating an unlicensed money transmitter business and money transmission…

Founded in 2011 as a bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer, Bitfury offers a suite of blockchain services including enterprise blockchain system Exonum, analytics platform Crystal, layer-two payment system Lightning Peach and music platform Surround. The private, for-profit Bitfury Group has raised $170 million, accepting six funding rounds spanning from 2014 to 2018. The company was founded…

Blockchain finance firm Clearmatics Technologies has raised over $12 million in a Series A funding round led by venture capital firm Route 66 Ventures. Additional investment in the funding round came from private equity firm TNF Capital and XTX Ventures, the venture capital arm of electronic market-making firm XTX Markets. As part of the arrangement,…