Bitcoin News Roundup for May 1, 2020

NEWS Bitcoin cash’s ongoing war of words is set to reach a conclusion tomorrow. That’s when a planned technical update (and an ongoing disagreement over the proposed code changes) may lead two major bitcoin cash implementations – Bitcoin ABC and Bitcoin SV – to split into separate blockchains. In the days prior to the activation, rising contention…

news Bitcoin IRA will soon allow customers to lend their retirement assets for interest.  The firm, which provides digital asset individual retirement accounts (IRAs) is partnering with digital currency trader and lender Genesis Trading to offer interest on cryptocurrency and cash holdings that customers want to lend out, including bitcoin, ether, XRP, litecoin, and zcash. …

Announced Monday, LedgerConnect is the offspring of bank-owned currency trading utility CLS and enterprise software giant IBM.

Jul 29, 2020 at 08:00 UTCUpdated Jul 29, 2020 at 08:03 UTCTokenSoft's Bay Area office space is just 10 floors above the SEC's west coast wing. (Mason Borda)605 Days Later: How ArCoins Got the SEC Go-Ahead as an Ethereum-Traded Treasuries FundConvincing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that the Ethereum blockchain is an acceptable…

Mastercard and digital asset platform Bakkt are partnering to allow merchants and banks to build cryptocurrency into their offerings, the companies announced Monday. The two plan to also shake up the way consumers can collect loyalty rewards.Mastercard said in a statement that consumers can buy, sell and hold digital assets through custodial wallets offered by…

Dec 11, 2019 at 21:25 UTCUpdated Dec 11, 2019 at 21:37 UTCJack Dorsey speaks at Consensus 2018, image via CoinDesk archivesJack Dorsey Announces New Twitter Team: Square Crypto, but for Social MediaJack Dorsey's latest foray into decentralized technology could be a harbinger of a radical shift in social media infrastructure. It all depends on the…

news U.S. crypto exchange Bittrex is launching an over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk. The new service, which will allow approved clients to “quickly and conveniently trade assets,” will support nearly 200 cryptocurrencies already offered by the exchange, the company announced Monday. According to the exchange, the OTC desk will provide “guaranteed pricing” for major trades, “typically…

Toronto Stock Exchange image via ShutterstockA closed-end fund, which aims to provide investors with exposure to bitcoin in a regulated asset class, has listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX). Canadian investment manager 3iQ said The Bitcoin Fund, for which it originally filed a prospectus back in October, would begin trading on the TSX on…

Back in 2015, the pharmaceutical executive and fraudster Martin Shkreli purchased the sole physical copy of “Once Upon a Time in Shaolin,” the seventh studio album by the Wu-Tang Clan.When Shkreli was sent to prison in 2018, the album was seized by the federal government, which held onto it until earlier this year. It was…