Crypto.com gains payment service license from Bahrain central bank

What a twist! YouTube pulled the plug on our seven-hour livestream. YouTube’s censorship rabbit hole is deep, especially as it pertains to cryptocurrency topics.Cointelegraph had a full day of programming lined up for a livestream that covered Bitcoin’s third block halving on May 11. The agenda mostly went off without a hitch — fintech luminaries…

The price of several big-name alternative cryptocurrencies fell especially hard following a Bitcoin (BTC) pullback to $17,650 on Dec. 9. Namely, XRP and top decentralized finance (DeFi) tokens, YFI and AAVE, dropped by as much as 10% to 20% in the past 18 hours with BTC losing up to 7%.Cryptocurrency market daily losses. Source: Coin360The two main…

The Bank of France has taken an interest in stablecoins, as indicated by the bank’s governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau in a Bloomberg report on May 14 .Villeroy has said that the bank is “observing with great interest” growing networks that allow members to exchange stablecoins for tokenized securities, goods, and services. He makes a…

Crypto analyst Brian Kelly has predicted that approval of a Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) will “likeliest” and “earliest” come in February 2019, in an interview on CNBC’s Fast Money August 23. Kelly’s forecast comes hot upon the heels of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) rejection of nine BTC derivatives-based ETF proposals from…

Ant Group, a company backed by billionaire Jack Ma, is reportedly planning to restructure and cut ties to some operations that are not core parts of its Chinese financial business. The move prepares the company for a potential initial public offering (IPO) in Hong Kong. Citing anonymous sources, mainstream media outlet Bloomberg reported that the firm…

Binary options and sports betting will soon be launched on the Synthetix-based Thales platform. 273 Total views 4 Total shares A decentralized finance project providing binary options style trading has just completed a $2.5 million seed round.Binary options are financial instruments that allow traders to speculate on the price movement of the underlying market or…

The Zcash Foundation, the firm behind privacy-centric cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC), has donated $40,000 to a Canadian private messaging developer. The Open Privacy Research Society, a non-profit group working on Cwtch, a decentralized metadata-resistant messenger, has received 1,044 ZEC from Zcash, the organization announced on Dec. 3.As described by Open Privacy, Cwtch is a platform for…

Bitcoin and altcoins declined sharply in the first quarter in a selloff that was partly triggered by a shift in central bank policy. 302 Total views 30 Total shares Cryptocurrency investment manager Galaxy Digital Holdings reported a sharp loss in the first quarter due to unrealized losses in its digital asset portfolio, underscoring heightened volatility…

CoinShares' head of research James Butterfill said the outflows come despite "the improved certainty of the Merge." 276 Total views 16 Total shares Institutional investors may be wavering ahead of the Ethereum Merge, with digital asset investment products seeing an outflow of $61.6 million of Ether (ETH), signaling concerns about the success of the upgrade. In…