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news Coinbase has launched a new feature allowing user to directly transfer cryptocurrency holdings on Coinbase.com to accounts in the firm’s Wallet app. The San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange announced the news in a blog post on Tuesday, saying that users will be able to link their accounts once the app gets updated in the “next…

Make money with your friends while laughing at an inside joke? What could be better than that? Memes are taking over finance. And, behind the community forums, comical volumes of wealth emerging within days, and sometimes-crude humor, something tremendous and meaningful is happening. Memes: More than JPEGs On the surface, memes are just photos and

Dec 29, 2020 at 5:08 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 29, 2020 at 5:10 p.m. UTCThe Puell Multiple is looking bullish and shows bitcoin may still have room to run. (Credit: Shutterstock)eToro Said to Be in Talks With Goldman About Possible $5B IPO: ReportCryptocurrency trading/investment management platform eToro is considering going public in what would be a…

news Two Japanese tech giants have teamed up on an initiative using blockchain to provide educational records that cannot be faked. Announced by Sony on Wednesday, Sony Global Education, Fujitsu Ltd. and the Fujitsu Research Institute have launched a field trial to evaluate the utility of blockchain tech in the management of course records and…

Cryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital said its loyalty program has driven a sharp increase in funded accounts, which now number 1 million.That is a 23-fold increase from the end of last year, when it had 43,000 funded accounts, the company said in a statement.The broker reported an increase of 135,000 funded accounts in November alone.Voyager Digital…

feature Overstock’s newly launched security token exchange tZERO is live, but it’s still a work in progress. That platform launched in the late afternoon on Thursday, allowing investors to trade their tZERO tokens. The first trade saw 10 tokens bought at a price of $8 apiece, according to the users in tZERO’s Telegram group. That $8…

Three years ago, Microsoft Azure was the first to bring blockchain to the cloud. Now it's connecting the technology to just about everything else. The software giant has quietly been building bridges between its blockchain services and other, widely used infrastructure and platforms, such as Office 365 Outlook, SharePoint Online, Salesforce, Dynamics 365 CRM Online, SAP,…

OKX, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has enlisted the services of digital asset storage firm Komainu, allowing institutional users to keep their crypto within the Nomura-backed custodian while using those funds to trade on the exchange.It’s a partnership that demonstrates how vertically integrated crypto exchanges can start to emulate traditional finance,…

Repercussions are being felt in the ethereum development ecosystem after an initial test of the platform's forthcoming software upgrade, Constantinople, failed to deliver expected results. A system-wide change initially earmarked to go live in 2018, the code release, meant to introduce five improvements and alter the economics of the $20 billion blockchain, may now be delayed…