Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 18, 2021

Munich, Germany. (Credit: Shutterstock)Germany’s Crypto Custody Law Hits a Snag: Startups Can’t Get Bank AccountsWhile more than 40 banks have reportedly expressed interest in Germany’s new crypto custody license, those firms may still have to put up with an anti-crypto sentiment among German banks.“If you try to open a bank account for a company that…

feature What started as a $575 million token sale is now a rewards program for watching videos. TaTaTu’s initial coin offering (ICO) was among the biggest of 2018, with film producer Andrea Iervolino raising money from royals like Lady Monika Bacardi, of the famous liquor family. Before this raise, Iervolino was best known for films…

This article originally appeared in First Mover , CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day . Latest Prices (CoinDesk) Top Stories Bitcoin (BTC) struggled to stay above $65,000, after falling below $64,000 during Wednesday's American trading hours . After briefly retaking

NEWS iFinex, the parent company of controversial cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex, appears to have hired a new offshore corporate services provider. A trademark application dated Oct. 31 gives iFinex’s address as care of SHRM Trustees (BVI) Ltd., marking a change from prior trademark applications – including one filed in June 2017 – which gave the address…

Blackrock (BLK) is not attempting to launch an XRP exchange-traded fund (ETF), the asset manager said Monday.A regulatory filing suggesting the company had taken a first step toward doing so is fake, a spokesperson said shortly after the news began circulating on social media. XRP's price jumped more than 10% at one point but had

news A Russian nuclear lab scientist will serve three years in a prison colony for illegally using government equipment to mine bitcoin. Andrey Rybkin of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics in Sarov, Russia, was the last employee of three to be sentenced by a local jurisdictional court according to Russian news source…

The discount for Grayscale’s Bitcoin Fund (GBTC), the world’s largest bitcoin investment vehicle, reached the narrowest point since July 2021 on Friday on the optimism of bitcoin spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) getting approval in the U.S.Shares in GBTC narrowed to a two-year record of 8.6% discount to the trust’s net asset value (NAV) on Friday

news A VC-backed blockchain firm that helped curate courses at Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge is officially rolling out its programs at three California universities. MouseBelt‘s Blockchain Accelerator launched Wednesday at UC Davis, UC Los Angeles and UC Santa Barabara, boosting the educational presence at the noted U.S. schools. Backed by over $40 million in funding…

NEWS Sep 17, 2018 at 15:30 UTC  |  Updated  Sep 17, 2018 at 15:32 UTC Internet security provider Cloudflare is introducing a new product to help users more easily access the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), the decentralized storage protocol developed by Protocol Labs. In a blog post Monday, Cloudflare announced it was launching a "Crypto Week,"…