Bitcoin return to $71K would wipe $1.38B shorts

Unmarshal, a new project building a blockchain data indexing solution, has announced on Friday a $2.6 million seed funding round from a number of crypto industry investors.Venture funds that participated in Unmarshal’s round include Woodstock, Black Edge Capital, Genesis Block Ventures or GBV, NGC Ventures, AU21, Spark Ventures, BitMax, and some others. The round was…

Trezor, a major provider of hardware cryptocurrency wallets, is celebrating its 10th anniversary by releasing three self-custody products, including a new Trezor wallet, a proprietary private key backup solution and a Bitcoin (BTC)-only wallet.The Czech Republic-based company officially announced the launch of Trezor Safe 3, its brand-new hardware wallet supporting more than 7,000 cryptocurrencies, on

ICO tokens from Crowd Computer were sold to Americans as “investment contracts” according to the SEC’s complaint, which classifies them as securities. 508 Total views 19 Total shares The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a suit against Australian Craig Derel Sproule for the allegedly “fraudulent and unregistered” sale “of digital asset…

A German law professor has argued that permissionless networks such as Bitcoin (BTC) pose the greatest challenge when it comes to applying private law to the blockchain.In an Oct. 18 article entitled Who Owns Bitcoin? Private (International) Law Facing the Blockchain, Professor Matthias Lehmann, chair of the Institute for International Private Law and Comparative Law at…

Samsung Securities, Mirae Asset Securities and Shinhan Financial Investment are among the financial heavyweights in talks with the government to create the exchange. 147 Total views 8 Total shares Samsung Securities is among seven large South Korean securities companies that have applied for government approval to create a virtual assets exchange, according to a report…

A new report from Flipside Crypto examined the Tron ecosystem with the goal of determining whether the project is a scam. 4699 Total views 51 Total shares The latest report from Flipside Crypto takes a deep look into Tron (TRX) with the hope of answering a question many critics in the cryptocurrency space have posed:…

G20 officials announced on July 11 that they would begin laying the regulatory groundwork for the group to accept digital payments. 569 Total views 20 Total shares Digital currency payments may become a reality for G20 members before the next summit in Saudi Arabia.As reported by Kyodo News on July 11, officials revealed that the…

The report compares Bitcoin energy usage to that of clothes dryers (equal) and its emissions to those of manure (much less) in a slight but readable document. 182 Total views 2 Total shares KPMG has released a report on Bitcoin and ESG (environment, social and governance) issues. The professional services firm, one of the world’s…

Today, on July 30, United States lawmakers will once again gather to debate cryptocurrency and blockchain policy in a hearing dubbed “Examining Regulatory Frameworks for Digital Currencies and Blockchain.” The hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. EST and will be broadcast live.This time, the U.S. Senate Banking Committee is planning to hold a broader discussion…