Fidelity Digital Assets to Sign Up Its First Crypto Exchange by End of the Year

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Police in Germany have provisionally seized 50,000 bitcoin (BTC) worth $2.17 billion, calling the action its largest cryptocurrency seizure ever, according to a police statement.The claim is related the operation of a piracy website in 2013 that violated the Copyright Act. Proceeds of that venture were then converted to bitcoin. One of the two suspects

Mar 20, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Mar 20, 2020 at 13:28 UTCSpencer Dinwiddie image via Tdorante10 / Wikimedia CommonsSpencer Dinwiddie, the Brooklyn Nets guard who launched his own tokenization platform, has launched an interest-bearing stablecoin service in partnership with crypto lending firm Cred. The new service launched Friday on Dinwiddie’s personal website. There, visitors can “pledge”…

Bitcoin maximalist Michael Taylor is not selling any of his company's bitcoin anytime soon."There's no reason to sell the winner and buy the losers," he said in an interview with Bloomberg TV on Tuesday.Bitcoin competes with far larger asset classes like gold, real estate and the S&P, but it's the superior product, argued Saylor.Michael Saylor

Nov 6, 2020 at 14:30 UTCUpdated Nov 6, 2020 at 14:39 UTCTo Stake or No? That’s the Eth 2.0 QuestionNow that Ethereum 2.0 is finally set to go live, people face a crucial decision: whether or not to stake. It comes down to balancing the age-old calculus of risk and reward. Ethereum 2.0 holds out…

Oct 14, 2020 at 12:00 UTCU.S. Attorney General William Barr unveiled the Department of Justice's cryptocurrency enforcement framework last week.(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)The US Crypto Enforcement Framework Is a Warning to International ExchangesThe Department of Justice (DOJ) just fired a warning to crypto exchanges worldwide: Comply with U.S. law or face the potential wrath of the…

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Bank of America's Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo are offering spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to their clients.People familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the two firms had been allowing clients who specifically asked for exposure to the funds.Two Wall Street wealth management giants, Bank of America’s Merrill Lynch and Wells Fargo, are adding

Retail bitcoin investors, particularly "crabs" and "shrimps," have accumulated 35,000 BTC in the past 30 days, highlighting increased confidence and participation from smaller holders. With 40,000 BTC withdrawn from exchanges in the past 30 days, reduced liquidity suggests a potential supply squeeze, creating a bullish environment for future bitcoin price increases. In the past 30