Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 17, 2020

Crypto wallet provider Ledger has unveiled its second new product of the year as it seeks to make self custody of cryptocurrency more accessible and convenient. Ledger has also unveiled its new Security Key app, which offers passkey capabilities as an alternative to conventional passwords. Take-up of self-custodial wallets may have been hindered historically by

Dec 7, 2020 at 3:00 p.m. UTC(leungchopan/Shutterstock)Crypto Exchange Bittrex Lists Tokenized Apple, Amazon, Tesla, Stocks for TradingBittrex Global has launched trading in tokenized stocks such as Apple, Tesla and Amazon on its digital asset exchange.The platform said traders and investors will have direct access to listed companies – also including Google, Facebook, Netflix, Pfizer and…

With the infamous Mt. Gox, less-infamous Quadriga and a handful of other times crypto companies have entered mainstream awareness for losing millions of dollars of customer funds, we have years of evidence that custodying crypto is apparently quite difficult. And yesterday, we got even more.On the morning June 22 crypto custody giant BitGo terminated its…

news Amid the kerfuffle last week over Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency project and its potential regulation, the U.S. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) quietly extended its deadline for firms to report their crypto activity. The self-regulatory body for brokerages and exchanges had last year requested (it says “encouraged”) that member companies inform their regulatory coordinator informed if…

Touted as a way to make the world's most valuable cryptocurrency a more effective payment method, bitcoin's lightning network has a rather large obstacle ahead – it's still challenging, even risky, to set up and use. It could become easier, though, should developers at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the prestigious international group that creates…

Jul 16, 2020 at 22:24 UTCFor five hours, all of Twitter became Crypto Twitter. Yesterday, one of the biggest digital hacks in recent memory went down. A hacker, likely a Bitcoiner, gained access to Twitter’s administrative functions and began a crypto-scam campaign. Some of the world’s most notable accounts on the site started offering to…

Organizers of Stand With Crypto say the advocacy group is directing a wave of crypto-interested voters toward shifting digital assets policy in the U.S. In about 10 months since launching, the organization has gathered millions in donations and also started its own political action committee to influence individual races. Stand With Crypto, a digital assets

The price of ether classic, the cryptocurrency that powers ethereum classic, is on the rise at press time amid news of major exchange listings.

A quick surge in bitcoin (BTC) early Tuesday afternoon lifted the price above $44,000 on some crypto exchanges, including Coinbase, for the first time since early April 2022 as the largest crypto extended its rally supported by declining interest rates and anticipation for a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund in the U.S.The CoinDesk Bitcoin Index XBX