EU Lawmaker Wants to Include ICOs in New Crowdfunding Rules

Jan 7, 2021 at 3:28 p.m. UTCCrypto Derivatives Exchange BitMEX Says All Users Are Now VerifiedBitMEX, the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange that found itself in hot water with U.S. regulators last year, announced Thursday that its customer verification program has now been fully implemented across active users.Since Dec. 4, BitMEX users have been required to become…

Mar 5, 2020 at 12:34 UTCUpdated Mar 5, 2020 at 12:44 UTCThe mining facility. Credit: Greenidge GenerationAn upstate New York power plant has been using some of its own electricity to mine bitcoin on an industrial scale. Greenidge Generation, a natural gas power plant near the town of Dresden in the Finger Lakes region, has…

Stronghold Digital, the bitcoin mining company that converts coal waste into power for its operations, surged in its first day of trading on Wednesday after raising $127 million in its initial public offering (IPO).The Kennerdell, Pennsylvania-based miner’s IPO was upsized to $19 per share, after previously pricing its IPO at the range of $16 to…

The filing comes on the same day as bitcoin hit $50,000 for the first time ever.Securities and Exchange Commission building in Washington, D.C.(Getty Images)Feb 16, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 16, 2021 at 2:36 p.m. UTCNYDIG Files for Bitcoin ETF, Adding to Firms Hoping 2021 Is When SEC Finally Says ‘Yes’NYDIG, Stone Ridge Asset…

How the Decentralized Web Transfers Wealth From Corporations to PeopleThe internet of today is broken. We can use the internet, but we don’t own anything we do. Companies control our domain names, the content we host on web servers and our access to the internet. Now that so much of our information is on social…

news Food and beverage giant PepsiCo has conducted a blockchain trial that brought a 28 percent boost in supply chain efficiency. Dubbed “Project Proton,” the trial set out to examine if blockchain could address “industry challenges” in programmatic advertising. PepsiCo’s project partner and media agency Mindshare announced the news Monday, saying that it assisted in the…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Danny is CoinDesk's Managing Editor for Data & Tokens. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.One of the hottest NFT mints in Solana’s recent history is…

Jan 7, 2020 at 18:14 UTCUpdated Jan 7, 2020 at 18:40 UTCCoinbase CEO Brian Armstrong via CoinDeskCoinbase Pro released a new Android application Tuesday, granting professional investors using the exchange access to high-speed trades and other activities.Product manager Linda Xie wrote in a blog post that Coinbase Pro customers in more than 100 countries could…

news Cryptocurrency wallet provider Abra is now letting users deposit and withdraw ether (ETH) directly from its app. Previously, users could only make deposits into the app via a U.S.-based bank account, an American Express card, bitcoin (BTC), bitcoin cash (BCH) or litecoin (LTC). Then, if they chose, they could have their balances converted into…