FinCEN Says It Now Receives 1,500 Crypto Complaints a Month

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news An app that puts a cryptocurrency wallet inside your Telegram account is making it easier to buy coins with U.S. dollars. Button Wallet launched in late 2018 as a messenger-based platform for sending payments, a la Venmo. Currently integrated with Telegram, the company tells CoinDesk it has 100,000 users with 2,000 actively using the…

Bitcoin mining firm Hut 8 said its third-quarter net loss more than doubled and revenue fell 46% from a year earlier as it mined fewer coins due to a higher network difficulty, operational issues and the suspension of some operations.The Toronto-based company's loss widened to C$53.6 million ($39 million) from C$23.8 million, while sales slumped

news U.S. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo has said he believes that cryptocurrencies should be regulated in the same way as financial institutions. In an interview with CNBC’s Squawk Box on Tuesday, Pompeo was asked how best to regulate Facebook’s Libra or bitcoin. He responded: “My sense is this: We should use the same framework that…

feature For all the talk about liquidity, bitcoin and other crypto-assets are thinly traded. Investors that buy and sell large volumes can’t do so directly, without slippage, or a change in the price between order and execution. They turn to over-the-counter (OTC) desks to manage those trades, whether buying crypto for the first time, or…

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

feature The ethereum movement, headed by flagship organizations like the Ethereum Foundation and the Brooklyn-based conglomerate ConsenSys, emerged from Blockchain Week 2019 with a common goal and a newfound sense of urgency. In short, building ethereum 2.0 — the blockchain network’s ambitious reinvention plan — will require maturity. “The only people left are those that…

news Abra is expanding its U.S. offerings, adding support for 60 new cryptocurrencies and doubling users’ bank deposit limits. The crypto wallet and investment app provider announced Tuesday that U.S. customers are now able to deposit, withdraw or trade bitcoin SV, DAI and cosmos, among many other crypto assets. Additionally, customer withdrawal and deposit amounts…