Bitcoin Is Poised to Reclaim Crypto’s Spotlight: Berenberg

BEUC, an umbrella group of European consumer organizations, filed a complaint with European Union consumer protection bodies calling for Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter to toughen their crypto advertising rules.National regulators should require social media networks to tighten their policies and ban influencers from promoting crypto, the complaint said.“Consumers are increasingly being promised ‘get rich…

Cryptocurrencies of non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces dipped during Wednesday U.S. morning hours following news of OpenSea facing potential U.S. regulatory action. Adding to earlier losses alongside a broad crypto decline begun Tuesday evening U.S. hours, Blur (BLUR) fell another 5% in the minutes following the news before a modest bounce. It's now down 10% over

Three years in the making, bitcoin's first sidechain "Liquid" is now live. Launched by San Francisco startup Blockstream, Liquid is arguably the most advanced implementation of a technology called sidechains that's long been a holy grail for bitcoin coders (though what's being launched today may be a watered-down version of the original "trustless" vision). Still,…

All eyes are on BlackRock.After last year’s carnage of FTX and other high-profile fallouts, the crypto industry is pinning its hopes on legacy finance muscling through the long-awaited Bitcoin spot ETF.In addition to BlackRock, Fidelity and Ark Investments have filed for Bitcoin spot ETFs, paving the way for institutional capital to flood into the digital…

Jul 12, 2020 at 21:30 UTCCrypto Long & Short: Dogecoin, Market Manipulation and the Downside of a Coinbase IPOThis week saw a 125% rise in the price of dogecoin, a cryptocurrency based on a popular 2013 internet meme, created in the same year as both a parody and a “let’s see if this sticks” experiment.…

May 11, 2020 at 14:00 UTCUpdated May 11, 2020 at 14:19 UTCCrypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek speaks at RISE 2018 at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. (Credit: RISE via Sportsfile)Crypto.com Lands Record $360M Insurance Cover for Offline Bitcoin VaultsCrypto.com has gathered a record-breaking $360 million worth of insurance to cover the potential loss of…

Jul 14, 2020 at 15:37 UTCUpdated Jul 14, 2020 at 15:57 UTCEnterprise blockchain firm Digital Asset announced Tuesday that VMware is investing in the firm’s Series C funding round.  In an announcement on its website, Digital Asset said VMware joined Samsung Venture Investment Corporation and Salesforce Ventures as an investor in the firm’s funding round,…

Apr 15, 2020 at 14:25 UTCUpdated Apr 15, 2020 at 14:42 UTCMorgan Creek co-founder and partner Anthony Pompliano. (Credit: CoinDesk)Bitcoin advocate Anthony "Pomp" Pompliano is betting the top cryptocurrency might have more of a role to play in the emerging decentralized finance (DeFi) space.Pompliano's Morgan Creek Digital was one of the investors in a $2.6…

Jul 21, 2020 at 20:28 UTCSource: CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Briefly Pops Above $9,400 as Global Stocks RallyBitcoin hit its highest price point in almost two weeks as stocks climbed. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $9,371 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. EDT). Gaining 2.2% over the previous 24 hours.Bitcoin’s 24-hour range: $9,149-$9,439BTC…