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In a speech at a Reuters online event Wednesday, Lagarde said bitcoin was a speculative asset.Jan 13, 2021 at 10:29 a.m. UTCECB’s Christine Lagarde Says ‘Speculative’ Bitcoin Needs RegulationEuropean Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said bitcoin has facilitated “funny business” needs to be regulated at a Reuters online event Wednesday.Lagarde also described bitcoin as…

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Ether to be a driver of Coinbase earnings, JPMorgan said.The bank also raised its price target for Coinbase to $150 from $95.The impact of ether appreciation is particularly meaningful, the report said.14:55Colorado Securities Commissioner Addresses Crypto Projects Who Raise Capital via Tokens00:59Would You Pay Your Taxes and DMV Fees With Crypto?00:54Here's Why Ether Could Surge

Valkyrie Investments’s bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) has won the blessing of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The new ETF is set to start trading on Friday, after the bitcoin-linked fund cleared the final regulatory hurdles, a Valkyrie spokesperson said. It will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker BTF on Nasdaq, despite short-lived plans to…

Realms has been in the business of crypto-governance for nearly as long the blockchain it's built on – Solana (SOL) – has been around. Its new leaders want to start turning a profit. The hub for crypto apps' voting, decision-making and treasury is under new management, an entity called "Realms Today Trust." It's a big

Jul 23, 2020 at 12:00 UTC(Shutterstock/Modified by CoinDesk)Chainlink Integration Brings Data Feeds to Binance’s DeFi ProjectSmart Contract (BSC) platform with data provider Chainlink, according to a blog post shared with CoinDesk. The collaboration was announced Thursday. The integration highlights Binance’s intention to create an alternate platform for Ethereum dapps, particularly aimed at the currently popular…

news The Dutch Financial Criminal Investigative Service has seized the website of a bitcoin transaction mixer in a crackdown involving Europol and other authorities. Calling it the “first law enforcement action of its kind against such a cryptocurrency mixer service,” Europol said in a statement Wednesday that the seizure of Bestmixer.io followed an investigation that…

They had it all planned out.In late 2022, the brothers Peraire-Bueno – twenty-something graduates of a prestigious university who had turned their sights on blockchain – embarked on an effort that ultimately netted them $25 million, in one of the most sophisticated exploits in a decade or so of frequent crypto exploits. At the outset

The X accounts of Donald Trump's daughter-in-law and daughter were apparently hacked Tuesday evening to promote a token purportedly tied to World Liberty Financial, the upcoming crypto project touted by family members in recent days. Lara and Tiffany Trump, the wife of Eric Trump and daughter of Donald Trump, respectively, tweeted what they described as