Craft distilling meets Bitcoin: US distillery adopts BTC for treasury use

Ireland-based cryptocurrency exchange Bitsane has apparently vanished, taking as many as 246,000 users’ crypto deposits with it. The news was reported by Forbes on June 27.Launched in 2016, Dublin-registered Bitsane LP was formerly listed as one of Ripple’s approved exchanges — a January 2018 CNBC article had also pitched the exchange as an option for…

The penalty comes after months of heightened regulatory attention to crypto lending platforms. 635 Total views 9 Total shares On Feb. 14, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, announced actions against crypto lending company BlockFi over its failure to register high-yield interest accounts that the agency deems to be securities.New Jersey-based BlockFi will pay…

Sweden is examining risks and consequences of moving its economy to its e-krona digital currency. 3996 Total views 6 Total shares The Swedish government is progressing with its central bank digital currency, or CBDC, by launching a formal review of a potential transition to the digital currency.According to a Dec. 11 Bloomberg report, the review…

The Ethereum co-founder asserts the crypto community's right to redefine "inflation" as the increase in currency supply, challenging traditional economic definitions and addressing misinformation.

The crypto custody arm of major United States-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, Coinbase Custody, obtained two new security evaluations.According to a press release published on Feb. 12, Coinbase Custody was granted a Service Organization Control (SOC) 1 Type 2 and a SOC 2 Type 2 report by major accounting firm Grant Thornton.System Organization Control reportsIn obtaining…

German police, along with Europol, have shut down servers of a dark web marketplace and seized six figures in crypto from the arrested suspects, Europol announced on May 3.The Wall Street Market, reportedly the world’s second-largest dark web market, has been shut down by the German Federal Criminal Police under the authority of the German…

Bitcoin (BTC) "may be primed" for a quantum leap in its development thanks to inflation this year, a Bloomberg analyst has claimed.In a tweet on March 17, Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, released a fresh bullish take on Bitcoin's future under current macro conditions.Gold beating Bitcoin "unlikely" this yearWell known for his…

New pool allows European and Asian users to avoid US dollar exposure. 1046 Total views 6 Total shares Decentralized stablecoin exchange Curve Finance has added the euro as a secondary currency option following demand from users.As announced in a Dec. 20 tweet, Curve now has a liquidity pool for switching between the Stasis euro stablecoin…