Bitcoin News Roundup for April 30, 2020

More investment managers are trading digital assets as interest in cryptocurrencies continues to grow. AIMA’s Global Crypto Report, released over the summer, showed that around 20% of hedge funds are now investing in the space.As a fund manager, protecting intellectual property, the complex algorithms, systems and data that allow them to generate returns, is paramount.…

Feb 20, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Feb 20, 2020 at 13:35 UTCTheHighestQualityImages / ShutterstockTravelers on Norwegian Air, one of the largest airlines in Europe, will soon be able to pay for flights using cryptocurrency. In an interview with a local business newspaper, CEO of Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX) Stig Kjos-Mathisen said his crypto trading platform…

Global X has filed an application to list a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) product, joining other industry players aiming to offer bitcoin-based investment offerings, a Friday filing shows.If approved, the fund would grant investors "exposure to bitcoin with important protections that are not always available to investors that invest directly in bitcoin," lawyers said…

Celestia’s TIA token gained over 22% in the past 24 hours, bucking the muted broader market trend, as investor interest in staking TIA gained momentum alongside rising hype for the blockchain's underlying technology.TIA traded at just under $17 in the early Asian morning hours Friday before giving back some gains. It recorded nearly $800 million

Sam Bankman-Fried might take the stand in his criminal trial, his defense hinted in a filing late Sunday. But his persistent lack of access to adequate medication for ADHD is complicating their decision on how to proceed.In a letter to Judge Lewis Kaplan, defense attorney Mark Cohen said his client “has been doing his best

Chinese police have arrested three individuals who allegedly stole bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies worth around 600 million yuan, or $87 million. 

Bitcoin rose a little on Friday, but largely shrugged off an unexpectedly strong jobs report, along with a week’s worth of upset and uproar over the U.S. debt ceiling, end-game negotiations and renewed inflation concerns.The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization was recently trading at about $27,180, up 1.2%. BTC edged above $27,000 shortly before U.S.…

news The Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is launching bitcoin options contracts through its subsidiary Bakkt. Bakkt announced Thursday that it would “launch the first regulated options contract for bitcoin futures,” adding a new product to its current slate of physically-settled bitcoin futures contracts. CEO Kelly Loeffler said in a Medium post that the contracts were built…

Astar, a blockchain network prominent in the Japanese Web3 community, said that its Astar zkEVM will be the first network to fully integrate into Polygon’s new AggLayer, a solution that connects blockchains with zero-knowledge proofs to other networks in Polygon’s ecosystem, to provide unified liquidity.Astar zkEVM is powered by Polygon’s Chain Development Kit (CDK), a