Bitcoin News Roundup for April 17, 2020

House Financial Services Committee Chair Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has made an overture to regulators in an attempt to secure the passage of a crypto-focused bill that would offer U.S.-based digital asset exchanges a path toward registering with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC),The letter to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler, dated June 23, asks him…

Trading volumes of XRP tokens against the Korean won hit $2.5 billion on South Korean exchange UpBit in the past 24 hours, the highest among counterparts, in a sign of speculative frenzy.This was more than 50% of the total trading volumes on UpBit in that period. Data shows market depth stood at nearly $5 million…

There's software ready to help ethereum scale – right now. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, the raw architecture of Turbo Geth has been completed – and is currently available to early adopters for testing. Alexey Akhunov, the independent software developer that built the software, told CoinDesk that unlike many other scaling solutions, Turbo Geth looks at tackling…

Oct 22, 2020 at 12:47 UTCUpdated Oct 22, 2020 at 13:17 UTCBitcoin's latest price rally could spark a rush to buy as fear of missing out takes over. (Creative Commons, modified by CoinDesk)First Mover: The FOMO Takes Over as PayPal Play Sparks Bitcoin Rally to $13KBitcoin (BTC) was higher, following through on the upside after…

World Liberty Financial, the nascent decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol supported by Donald Trump and his family, announced plans to start selling tokens on Tuesday – exactly three weeks before the presidential election for which Donald Trump is the Republican candidate. "Public sale starts [on] October 15th, open to everyone who qualifies through the whitelist," the

The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) is setting out to tackle a massive regulatory object: How crypto exchanges like Coinbase, Gemini and others list – and perhaps more importantly, delist – tokens. According to a new public service announcement, the call to update the agency’s guidance builds upon and will try to

Feb 10, 2020 at 17:37 UTCAdam B. LevineJohn BiggsFor early access before our regular noon Eastern Time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS.Today's news:Bitcoin Breaks Above $10,000 in Spot MarketUkraine Won't Regulate Crypto Mining, Government Ministry SaysNew Crypto Exchange Altsbit Says It Will Close Following HackChinese Crypto…

news A U.S. federal court has largely denied crypto entrepreneur and self-proclaimed bitcoin inventor Craig Wright’s attempt to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that he misappropriated billions of dollars’-worth of bitcoin from the estate of a former business partner. Wright is being sued by Ira Kleiman on behalf of the estate of his brother, the late…

news 2gether, a European payment app allowing users to spend crypto via a Visa debit card, is adding dash to its list of supported coins. Launched in March and available in 19 countries of the European Union, 2Gether now supports nine tokens, including bitcoin, ether, XRP, bitcoin cash, EOS, Stellar, litecoin, QTUM and dash. Users can buy…