Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 15, 2021

news The Stock Exchange of Thailand (SET) is looking to capitalize on investor interest in cryptos by offering a new digital assets exchange. According to a report from Bangkok Post on Thursday, the SET is planning to apply for a license from the country’s Ministry of Finance to operate the platform. The move comes as…

news Blockchain payments startup Ripple is looking to make new investments and acquisitions, with a few deals reportedly underway, according to the company CEO. This announcement comes in light of Ripple’s Q2 report, which detailed the company’s total sales of its native token XRP increasing by nearly 48 percent to $251 million. This growth was…

markets View Bitcoin is looking north, having closed above the 21-month exponential moving average (EMA) on April 30. Forcing a quick rally to $6,000, however, may be difficult for the bulls, as a number of key resistance levels are lined up in the $5,400–$5,900 range. The short-term outlook will remain bullish as long as the…

Web3 publishing app Mirror is being acquired by Paragraph, a competing platform.Mirror's team will continue to operate independently and will shift its focus to developing "Kiosk," a Web3 social app based on Farcaster that blends blockchain and e-commerce.Mirror and Paragraph will eventually merge into a single, unified product suite according to Paragraph's founder.Paragraph, the company

Dec 12, 2019 at 00:00 UTCUpdated Dec 11, 2019 at 22:40 UTCNetherlands Plans to Punish Crypto Scammers With Up to 6 Years in JailThe Netherlands is planning on bringing in harsher penalties for scams involving banking apps and cryptocurrencies.Proposed new legislation from the country's Ministry of Justice and Security is aimed to align penalties for…

Binance.US users can no longer withdraw dollars directly from the platform after the exchange updated its terms of use on Monday."In the event that customers wish to withdraw U.S. dollar funds from their account, they may do so by converting U.S. dollar funds to stablecoin or other digital assets, which can subsequently be withdrawn," the

opinion Craig Wright’s attempt to copyright the bitcoin white paper is a bold, if silly, move by a person who may be both of those things. Copyright registration is a simple way of claiming ownership of a literary work, song, or piece of art. I could, for example, claim copyright over my exciting new musical “Bitcoin…

(CoinDesk Turkey) – Turkey’s government is gearing up to introduce new legislation for the crypto sector. It’s still unclear how restrictive the new laws might be, but it hasn’t spooked adoption even at the institutional level. This week, two of Turkey’s largest banking groups announced crypto initiatives.On Monday, the investment arm of Akbank announced it

news A brief outage Tuesday morning at 10:00AM Eastern took down a number of crypto information and trading sites including Coinbase and CoinMarketCap. The issues cleared up around 10:18AM and most sites seem to be running again. Cloudflare, a CDN provider, first noticed the outage at 1:52PM UTC/9:52 AM Eastern and the impacted sites went…