Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 16, 2021

Crypto custody tech company Fireblocks has acquired tokenization firm BlockFold to service the financial industry's largest institutions.The acquisition will expand Fireblocks' capabilities in tokenization - allowing traditional assets to be traded on the blockchain - including token customization, orchestration, distribution and advisory, the firm announced via email on Friday.The market for tokenized assets could spike

Jun 19, 2020 at 18:04 UTCSEC logo (AevanStock/Shutterstock)The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) moved on Friday to halt an allegedly-fraudulent digital asset investment fund run by two Pennsylvania brothers. The SEC announced Friday that it had filed a temporary restraining order and asset freeze against Sean and Shane Hvizdzak and their corporate entities, alleging…

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Crypto services provider Matrixport, one of the few firms to turn bullish on bitcoin (BTC) late last year, now expects the leading cryptocurrency to rally to as high as $125,000 by the end of 2024.The forecast is based on data that show a multimonth bull market comprising a meteoric surge in market value unfolds once…

With game tokens down 37% overall in 2024, there’s been some trash talk saying Web3 gaming is dead. But crypto is cyclical, and the current downturn is nothing we haven’t seen before. As angel investors focused on seed and pre-seed, we think this is a wonderful time to invest. Having emerged from the Crypto Winter

The process of Germany offloading seized bitcoin is called by experts "market intervention" as it caused a selloff. The law that the authorities cited as the reason for the sale, falls within a "legal gray" line, according to one observer. Germany may have finally come out with a legal reason why they offloaded nearly $3

Tribe Capital, a venture capital firm with investments in Kraken and FTX among others in the crypto sector, is launching a $75 million crypto fund, sources familiar with the initiative told CoinDesk.The fund initially sought to raise $50 million but strong interest from investors raised the total, according to the sources. San Francisco-based Tribe Capital’s…

Nearly two years ago, the Infrastructure and Jobs Act (IIJA) passed – a bill that expanded broker information reporting to digital asset transactions and mandated Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rulemaking to implement the statute. Late last month, the IRS’s long-awaited proposal arrived, and it could kill crypto in America.The proposed rule would require newly designated