Bitwise predicts 2025 as year for crypto IPO — Kraken, Circle to go public

Bitcoin (BTC) briefly broke above $25,000 on Aug. 15, but the excitement lasted less than an hour and was followed by a 5% retrace in the next five hours. The resistance level proved to be tougher than expected but may have given bulls false hope for the upcoming $335 million weekly options expiry.Investors’ fleeting optimism…

Ten years have passed since the enigmatic Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin White Paper. A lot has happened since October 31, 2008, and not many can say that they know every little detail of Bitcoin’s history. In honour of the White Paper’s ten year anniversary, Cointelegraph offers you, our readers, the opportunity to test your…

“Our main concern is that many taxpayers believe their cryptocurrency gains are tax-free or only taxable when the holdings are cashed back into Australian dollars,” said the ATO commissioner. 2064 Total views 19 Total shares The Australian Tax Office (ATO) says it can’t rely on crypto investors to keep track of their crypto transactions and…

Many altcoin bulls are holding longs in spite of yesterday’s sudden down-turn in the Bitcoin markets. However, altcoin shorts are quickly rising too. Despite yesterday’s 8% crash in the price of Bitcoin (BTC) driving many BTC bulls from the markets, altcoin longs have only seen slight declines, with Ether (ETH) longs defying the trend with…

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce wants to see new crypto projects get a fair shake at U.S. capital markets. 463 Total views 16 Total shares In a July 7 fireside chat courtesy of Unitize, Commissioner Hester Peirce of the Securities and Exchange Commission continued to advocate for regulatory clarity for crypto as a means of opening…

In the 1988 “Crypto Anarchist Manifesto,” engineer, author and cypherpunk Timothy C. May predicted a social and economic revolution enabled by technological developments, including high-speed networks, personal computers and satellites. Today, former Bitcoin core developer Jeff Garzik — now with SpaceChain — and others are making this vision a reality. Private crypto companies including SpaceChain,…

“We’ll be looking at all the bills very, very closely. We have a lot of work to do over the next six months,” said Governor Hochul. 87 Total views 9 Total shares New York overnor Kathy Hochul is yet to publicly commit to signing the controversial Proof-of-Work (PoW) crypto mining ban bill, instead noting that…

The Ukrainian government has reached out to the crypto community on Twitter to raise funds to support its civilians and troops. 1044 Total views 59 Total shares Within the first week of the Russia-Ukraine war, the Ukrainian government has reached out to the crypto community on Twitter for raising funds to support its civilians and…

“Next round will be our Series ETH, where we will assist investors in getting fully crypto native,” says Joseph Lubin, founder and CEO of ConsenSys. 91 Total views 11 Total shares On Tuesday, ConsenSys, the leading Ethereum and decentralized protocols software company with product suites such as MetaMask, Infura and Truffle, announced the close of a…