CPI Report Tuesday Could Provide Next Bitcoin Catalyst

Jun 19, 2020 at 13:06 UTCUpdated Jun 19, 2020 at 13:22 UTCFactom CEO Paul Snow at North American Bitcoin Conference 2015. (CoinDesk archives) Once the lead proponent and builder of the Factom Protocol, Factom Inc. has been in financial difficulties for some time. The Austin, Texas-based company has declared voluntary bankruptcy, saying it is currently…

Mar 27, 2020 at 16:45 UTCUpdated Mar 27, 2020 at 17:39 UTCCredit: Daniel J. Macy / Shutterstock.comA nominee for a CME director role believes the exchange, one of the few regulated providers for crypto derivatives, should issue its own tokens and mine bitcoin with renewable energy. In a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission…

Los Angeles’ 11th place globally put it fourth among U.S. hubs, behind Wyoming, Silicon Valley and Austin, Texas. Many of the Crypto Hubs’ criteria were measured on a national basis, so the U.S. hubs collectively were hampered by a middling crypto regulatory score, which is the main factor in the drivers category and counts for…

Crypto adoption has remained steady in the U.S. and the U.K. in the past two years, the report said. Gemini said 65% of those surveyed said they held crypto for its long-term investment potential. The majority of crypto owners said they wanted to allocate 5% or more to digital assets, the survey said. Crypto adoption

Investors would have benefited more from buying and holding bitcoin (BTC) than investing in crypto hedge funds during the first half of 2023, according to a research report from Swiss-based crypto investment adviser 21e6 Capital.Crypto funds returned an average of 15% during the period versus an 83% gain for bitcoin, according to 21e6 Capital data…

Liquid restaking protocol Puffer has raised $18 million in a Series A funding round, the company said Tuesday.The round was led by Brevan Howard Digital and Electric Capital, with investments from Coinbase Ventures, Kraken Ventures, Lemniscap, Franklin Templeton, Fidelity, Mechanism, Lightspeed Faction, Consensys, Animoca and GSR, the company said in a press release.The fresh round

In the wake of Tesla’s big announcement on Monday, a wave of corporate engagement with crypto emerges.This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.On today’s episode of The Breakdown, NLW looks at a slew of news from corporates getting into the bitcoin and crypto space, including:Twitter CFO exploring bitcoin treasury holdings and payments to employees and vendorsMastercard…

Jun 10, 2020 at 19:22 UTCUpdated Jun 10, 2020 at 19:23 UTCCredit: Chris Yang/Unsplash‘Radical Indifference’: How Surveillance Capitalism Conquered Our LivesWhen Shoshana Zuboff returns my call fifteen minutes late, it’s because her previous call with an organization in Israel dropped halfway through, and it took them a while to reconnect. Such is the peril of…

Over a million dollars'-worth of bitcoin was hidden in a picture – and there's still some left to be found. Called the 310 BTC Bitcoin Challenge, a pseudonymous user going by the name "Pip" stashed a total of 310.61 BTC (worth $2,011,267 at press time) into four digital wallets earlier this month – with the…