eToro to Pay for Major UK Soccer Sponsorship Deal With Bitcoin

news Crypto exchange Coinbase experienced a brief outage Wednesday afternoon, with both its website and API rendered temporarily inaccessible, as the price of bitcoin dropped more than $1,700 in the span of 15 minutes. According to Coinbase’s status page, the exchange reported major outages across its website, mobile apps and API, though its internal systems appeared to…

Feb 17, 2020 at 13:00 UTCBinance is launching a digital asset trading platform that can be rebranded by smaller exchanges for their local markets.Binance Cloud will offer local exchanges spot market and futures trading, as well as local bank API integrations and peer-to-peer (P2P) fiat-to-cryptocurrency exchange services, the company said in a statement Monday.Implementing a…

Nasdaq-listed bitcoin mining firm CleanSpark (CLSK) has agreed to acquire two facilities in Dalston, Georgia for $9.3 million in cash.The facilities will host over 6,000 Bitmain Antminer S19 XPs and S19J Pro+s and are expected to add just under 1 exahash per second (EH/s) to CleanSpark's hashrate, according to an emailed announcement on Wednesday.CleanSpark's aim…

Hong Kong’s crypto ETFs had a soft debut, with trading volume much lower than expected.The total trading volume for bitcoin ETFs was $8.5 million, while ether ETFs saw $2.5 million.Hong Kong’s bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) ETFs failed to lift off on their trading debut in Hong Kong, coming dramatically under initial expectations.The six listed

Jun 26, 2020 at 16:09 UTCBlockstream’s Liquid Network Sent $8M in BTC Unsafely, Says Bitcoin DeveloperBitcoins stored on the Liquid Network were temporarily able to be seized by network moderators Thursday night. The potential vulnerability in the Bitcoin sidechain’s security parameters was discovered by Summa founder James Prestwich. Liquid – a network developed and overseen…

South Korea’s most populated province, Gyeonggi, has implemented a digital tracking system for the first time in the country that has helped it collect arrears from crypto tax evaders.The $4.6 million collected has been from the 2,390 violators out of the 5,910 identified.South Korea’s most populated province, Gyeonggi, has collected $4.6 million from crypto tax

A group of judges, lawmakers and industry experts in South Korea are forming a new law society to discuss legal issues surrounding blockchain.

news Hxro, the startup behind the crypto-denominated game of skill, chance, and social engineering – MoonRekt – announced that players will be able to spend bitcoin to play the game. From 600 early-stage users, MoonRekt has grown to more than 37,000 registered players – albeit if some were enticed with free HXRO, tokens native to…

A few days before the New Hampshire primary vote, midway through a speech at a packed town hall in Nashua, Andrew Yang began to talk about data. Specifically, the industrial-scale harvesting of private data that is at the heart of today’s biggest and most profitable tech companies. “We produce an enormous outflow of information that…