Bitcoin News Roundup for April 20, 2020

Feb 12, 2020 at 17:00 UTCWith bitcoin above $10,000, Markets Daily is back with our news roundup, plus a brief interview with CoinDesk Senior Markets Reporter Brad Keoun.For 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:Today's show features a brief…

DOGE's weekly price averages appear on track to confirm a bullish golden cross.The previous golden cross, seen in early January 2021, presaged an 8,000% price surge.Dogecoin (DOGE), the world's largest meme cryptocurrency by market value, seems headed toward a repeat of the bullish "golden cross" technical pattern that presaged the early 2021 surge.DOGE, which has

Bitwise Asset Management has withdrawn the application for its Bitcoin Futures exchange traded fund (ETF) citing what it said are the cost and complexity of such ETFs and that the company will instead focus its efforts on its spot Bitcoin ETF filing already in the pipeline.“Our analysis suggested contango (associated with a futures ETF) would…

I’ve traveled to Berlin to stare into the future. Or, more accurately, I’ve traveled to Berlin to stare -- literally stare -- into a device that some see as our best hope for taming, and perhaps harnessing, the future powers of AI. Others see that same device as a Black Mirror episode sprung to life,…

Dec 11, 2019 at 09:00 UTCUpdated Dec 11, 2019 at 08:11 UTCIs Greece Cracking Down on Tax Evasion or Taxing Anonymity?Greece's plan to curb tax evasion by mandating digital receipts shows a fundamental dilemma of modernization: Economic policies rarely address corruption without sacrificing civil liberties.The Greek prime minister’s chief economic adviser, Alex Patelis, told The…

Crypto exchange Coinbase will soon be offering the option to spot trade cryptocurrencies outside of the U.S. as part of its global expansion efforts, the company announced in a blog post Wednesday.Starting Thursday, Coinbase’s international exchange will allow institutional customers to trade bitcoin and ether against the USDC stablecoin. Retail investors will have to wait

The Financial Conduct Authority said more 87% of crypto registrations received in 2023-24 fell short of meeting approval standards. The FCA has been overseeing the crypto sector in the U.K. and registering firms under its anti-money laundering rules since 2020. The U.K.'s financial regulator said a full 87% of crypto companies that applied for licensing

news The price of Tron dropped precipitously Monday on inaccurate rumors of a “police raid” at the company’s office in Beijing. The real story, however, was far more interesting. According to an official company post, the police arrived to protect the office from “people [who] were deceived by the so-called ‘Wave Field Super Community,'” a…

The U.S. posted August job growth of 142,000, slightly less than expected, but the unemployment rate dipped to 4.2% Sizable downward revisions to the July and June reports made the employment picture somewhat weaker than previously thought Under sizable pressure all week, bitcoin bounced following the report U.S. job growth was slightly less than expectations