Bitcoin News Roundup for May 1, 2020

BCB Group was the subject of a now-closed investigation by the FCA, according to sources. The company's chief compliance officer recently resigned from the business and will join crypto exchange Kraken in November. 14:55 Boomers Hold Tight, While Gen Z Shakes It Up: How the U.S. Election is Shaping Portfolios 01:30 Bitcoin Flat Near $60K

Bitcoin may be down now but there is still growing demand for crypto assets, one analyst said.CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexJan 15, 2021 at 9:52 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 15, 2021 at 9:55 p.m. UTCMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Dips to $34.4K as Big-Name DeFi Tokens Trounce ETHBitcoin was slipping Friday on lower-than-average volumes for 2021 so far.…

Despite countless Western media outlets describing China’s crypto “ban,” crypto trade is very much alive on mainland China. In just one month last year, Binance reportedly did $90 billion in Chinese crypto trade, making China the largest market for the world’s largest exchange.How is this possible? It’s tempting to turn this into a story about

Gamers are eagerly awaiting the next chapter of the massively successful Grand Theft Auto (GTA), and its developer, Rockstar Games, recently confirmed that a trailer for GTA VI will be arriving in December.But a question on some people’s minds is: will it have an in-game cryptocurrency?In the decade since the last GTA game, crypto gaming

feature Hodl Hodl plans to make its software freely available so anyone can launch their own version of the peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange. Announced Saturday at the Baltic Honeybadger conference in Riga, Latvia, the plan is, in part, a recognition that Hodl Hodl’s business model is vulnerable to regulatory crackdowns. “History teaches us that if a government…

Trent McConaghy’s father was a pig farmer in rural Canada. There wasn’t much to do for fun. His father bought him a computer when he was a kid, in the 1980s, along with a reference manual. Trent couldn’t play video games at an arcade, so he taught himself to code and whipped up his own

Feb 14, 2020 at 17:58 UTCThe Cardano blockchain's lead development firm has established a new research center at the University of Wyoming (UW), after making a $500,000 donation in the ADA cryptocurrency.IOHK announced Friday that its new research and authentication center would form part of UW's Blockchain Research and Development Lab and would promote the…

Dec 6, 2020 at 2:00 p.m. UTC(Jemal Countess/Getty Images Entertainment)Niall Ferguson on Why Bitcoin and China Are Winning the Monetary RevolutionThe well-known economic historian connects the dots between bitcoin and CBDCs in the COVID-19 money era.For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google…

A gauge used by options traders for predicting the direction of bitcoin (BTC) is now exhibiting the strongest bullish bias in 31 months.Bitcoin's 25-delta one-month call-put skew, which assesses the relative price of calls versus puts expiring in four weeks, has risen above 10%, reaching the highest since April 2021, according to data tracked by