Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Closes $15M Brokered Private Placement

This article originally appeared in First Mover , CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day . Latest Prices (CoinDesk) Top Stories Bitcoin has inched toward $66,000, paring all gains from last week, with sentiment dented as a significant amount of the

The wallet will enable trading of tokenized real-world assets such as gold or real estate, said Steinberg. And he sees this as a huge advantage to holders of illiquid assets: “We thought through tokenization and blockchain-enabled finance that you could add functionality … When you put tokenized, physically backed gold with peer-to-peer exchange and payments,…

NEWSINBRIEF U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has warned users against the perceived risks of trading the new bitcoin cash token, Bitcoin SV (BCH SV) – one of two competing versions of the cryptocurrency created when the blockchain split during last week’s hard fork upgrade. Kraken said in a blog post on Sunday that, while it has credited BCH…

Bitcoin's corrective rally from the recent low of $5,859 would resume on bull pennant breakout.

Dec 30, 2020 at 5:02 p.m. UTC(Shaun Meintjes/Unsplash)All Major Mining Pools Now Support Taproot, Bitcoin’s Biggest Upgrade in YearsBinance Pool, the mining pool run by one of crypto’s biggest exchanges, is prepared to support Taproot, a good omen for the next major Bitcoin upgrade. The addition of Binance Pool to the “yes” column means that…

Aug 19, 2020 at 12:51 UTCUpdated Aug 19, 2020 at 13:32 UTCExuberant dancers. (Christy Gallois/Flickr Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)First Mover: Money Legos Turn ‘Exuberant’ as Chainlink Stripped of ‘DeFi’Price PointIt’s been two steps forward, one step back for bitcoin (BTC) over the past couple months. Prices were down early Wednesday for a second straight day after…

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The proportion of traditional hedge funds investing in crypto assets declined in the past 12 months though the long-term outlook remains positive, according to a new report by Big Four accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).The percentage of funds with crypto exposure fell to 29% from 37% in 2022, according to the Global Crypto Hedge Fund Report.…

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