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NEWS Oct 2, 2018 at 16:30 UTC  |  Updated  Oct 2, 2018 at 16:30 UTC Coinbase's leadership expansion continued Tuesday as it added Charles Schwab advisor Chris Dodds to its board of directors and tapped former Instinet CEO Jonathan Kellner to be its new managing director of the Institutional Coverage Group. In one blog post, Coinbase…

Jan 30, 2020 at 14:52 UTCUpdated Jan 30, 2020 at 15:05 UTCGenesis CEO Michael Moro image via CoinDesk archivesA lukewarm U.S. economy is making big banks like JPMorgan Chase struggle to produce fast loan growth - even with interest rates close to historic lows. Yet, in the white-hot cryptocurrency industry, lenders are burgeoning.The Commerce Department…

The U.S. District Court of Colorado entered a judgment on behalf of the Commodity Futures and Exchange Commission (CFTC) against a Ponzi scammer on claims he and his company raised half a million dollars for cryptocurrency investments, which instead went to personal uses, the CFTC announced Wednesday.Breonna Clark, otherwise known as Eliot Clark or Alexander…

Jun 24, 2020 at 14:09 UTCUpdated Jun 24, 2020 at 14:39 UTCFTX Is Building Lots of Sophisticated Markets Few Traders UseCryptocurrency exchange FTX has launched eight unique index futures and volatility markets in less than 12 months. But enticing sophisticated traders to use these novel products has proved challenging.  At the time of publication, Antigua…

At what we hope is the end of a bitter crypto winter, history offers foresight that good times will return.According to the eminent professor Carlota Perez, technology is adopted in predictable waves — exuberant bubbles are followed by seemingly existential crashes prior to long "golden ages" of growth. We saw such a pattern back in

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said it’s sending PayPal payments totaling more than $470,000 to people who lost money to two pyramid schemes involving cryptocurrencies.According to the FTC, the defendants promoted Bitcoin Funding Team and My7Network, which falsely promised that participants could earn large sums of money by paying cryptocurrency such as bitcoin or litecoin…

Jul 31, 2020 at 10:14 UTCUpdated Jul 31, 2020 at 10:37 UTC(Bukhanovskyy/Shutterstock)Scalable blockchain Elrond has made the leap onto its mainnet and drastically reduced the token supply in the process. As part of the transition, Elrond said total token supply had been drastically reduced from 20 billion to just 20 million.Rather than burning tokens, Elrond…

Deficits - Inflation - War - Bank Failures - Cyber Attacks - De-dollarization.These risks loom large as they threaten stock and bond returns for investors. Historically, U.S. Treasuries have been a “safe haven,” providing some protection from crises, but from 2021 - 2023, Treasuries delivered -10%, their worst 3-year performance since at least the 1980s.

NEAR, the native token of the layer 1 Near Protocol, rallied on Wednesday as it announced a partnership with Nym Technologies.NEAR has gained 11% over the past 24 hours, largely outperforming the rest of the crypto market. Solana’s SOL was the only token to gain substantial ground on Wednesday, up 10%, at the press time.