Court denies Kraken’s motion to dismiss SEC lawsuit

A recent study by scientific journal Nature Sustainability published Nov. 5, reveals that crypto mining consumes more energy than mineral mining to produce the same market value.Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education conducted a study to evaluate how much energy is consumed by mining cryptocurrencies in comparison…

WBTC, BTCB, and other wrapped Bitcoin implementations may contribute to a BTC supply shortage looming on the horizon 2805 Total views 19 Total shares In a blog post of Friday, Binance re-introduced BTCB to the world — a wrapped Bitcoin asset intended to bring liquidity from the world's largest cryptocurrency, BTC, to Binance Smart Chain's…

The world's flagship Bitcoin spot ETF is back buying Bitcoin after spending four weeks reducing its holdings. 620 Total views 5 Total shares The world’s first Bitcoin (BTC) spot price exchange-traded fund (ETF) is buying BTC again after a month of selling.Data from on-chain monitoring resource Coinglass confirms that on April 27, Canada’s Purpose Bitcoin…

Blockchain, like many other emerging technologies, is enthusiastically touted as a solution to many of the world’s problems. Perhaps because of its relation to cryptocurrency or the narrative prophecies that surround them both, blockchain draws both criticism and praise from a staggering array of sectors.However, with the big blockchain push from Chinese President Xi Jinping…

Amazon-owned streaming platform Twitch appears to be ramping up its crypto strategy. The site, which focuses primarily on video game livestreaming, is now offering users a 10% subscription discount when paying with cryptocurrency through the platform’s payment processor, BitPay.BitPay’s chief marketing officer, Bill Zielke, told Cointelegraph that out of the thousands of merchants the company…

There has been a rapid escalation of the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak worldwide. Two major crypto conferences in the US have been affected by the epidemic so far.“Bitcoin 2020”, originally scheduled for March 27 and 28 in San Francisco, has moved to Q3 of 2020. The Chamber of Digital Commerce also postponed next week’s “DC Blockchain…

Americans aren't allowed to make certain investments unless they earn $200,000 annually or they're worth more than $1 million — but they are free to gamble.

He seemed to feel that Bitcoin may not be out of the trenches yet. Trader and head of proprietary trading firm Factor LLC, Peter Brandt, said Bitcoin's (BTC) recent run up past $12,000 did not excite him as much as it did the rest of the market. "I never got super super excited about the advance in…

Individual US states seem to be in competition for the title of the most crypto-friendly in the Union – Ohio’s recent announcement of imminent crypto tax payments being the latest example. Meanwhile, federal authorities remain in disarray with regard to how to define, let alone consistently regulate digital assets.It is not just stakeholders and crypto buffs…