Bitcoin News Roundup for April 16, 2020

Senator Elizabeth Warren, one of the chief U.S. critics of the crypto industry, confirmed she'd be taking the role as the most senior Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee. That panel will be responsible for handling crypto legislation in the coming months. If Democrats can manage to wrest back Senate control in two years, she

Bitmain is going public in China. The IPO might make it one of the most valuable startups, cryptocurrency or not, to ever debut on the public markets.

news Hong Kong-based venture capital group CMCC Global launched its Liberty Bitcoin Fund to provide crypto currency access to accredited investors in Asia who are very interested but have been slow to buy the coins directly. The Liberty Bitcoin Fund is a single-asset passive tracker of Bitcoin and offers services including buying and safekeeping coins. “We have…

Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Prices: Crypto traders are optimistic about the Fed skipping a rate hike.Insights: Hong Kong has rules for crypto, but they aren't that great.Bitcoin is opening Asia’s trading day at $25,948, up 0.2%, while ether is at $1,740, down 0.1%.Edward Moya, a Senior Market Analyst with OANDA, sees the likely possibility of…

One of the top members of the U.S. House of Representatives predicted that the best remaining chance for major crypto legislation this year is in a tight window at the end of the congressional session.Republican Emmer noted the major recent support from Democrats in Congress for crypto measures, but he suggested the U.S. Senate probably

Decentralized exchange (DEX) PancakeSwap has gone live on Ethereum scaling network Arbitrum in line with broader plans to expand its user base and build revenue, developer Chef Cocoa shared with CoinDesk today.Like all DEXs, PancakeSwap relies on smart contracts instead of middlemen to process trading, lending and lottery services for users. It was already on…

Concerns around the actual relationship between Sam Bankman-Fried’s two companies, trading firm Alameda Research and crypto exchange FTX, led the founder to consider shutting Alameda in 2022, a series of unpublished posts revealed in the ongoing court trial show.“For the past few years, the FUD around Alameda’s relationship with FTX has been too much of

Oct 20, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Oct 20, 2020 at 13:27 UTCPrivacy is the attribute that cryptocurrency traders are buying in latest digital-token rally. (Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)First Mover: Monero Leads Privacy-Coin Rally as Bitcoin Trips on Path to $12KBitcoin (BTC) was gaining for a fourth straight day, approaching the $12,000 price threshold the…

Gerald Cotten, late CEO of QuadrigaCX, circa 2015, image via Decentral Vulture Investor Is Looking to Buy QuadrigaCX Creditors’ ClaimsA New York investment firm wants to buy claims from former QuadrigaCX users – provided there's enough interest from creditors entitled to assets held by the infamous exchange.Argo Partners is opening a dialogue with creditors of…