Is Standard Chartered setting up a Bitcoin, Ether trading desk?

In a letter to Investors, CEO Dan Morehead examined the YTD performance of Bitcoin prior to the May 12 rewards halving. 2540 Total views 100 Total shares Pantera Capital Founder and CEO Dan Morehead has predicted there is more than a 50-50 chance Bitcoin goes up “and goes up big”, with a predicted peak of…

Acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks points to existing stablecoin projects as an example for U.S. payments infrastructure. 1264 Total views 17 Total shares Brian Brooks, the Acting Comptroller of the Currency and former head of Coinbase’s legal department, put forward blockchain as better than the United States’ current bank-dependent payments system.Decentralization for future…

Two Canadians of Indian origin were charged in the United States with a $233,220 Bitcoin (BTC) fraud using a fake HitBTC account on Twitter.Scammers posed as HitBTC customer service on TwitterKaranjit Singh Khatkar, 23, and Jagroop Singh Khatkar, 24, of Surrey, British Columbia, allegedly stole 23.2 Bitcoin from a woman in the U.S. state of…

There are 200 quests in which players can complete to earn a chance of getting an Alpha Pass NFT, which will reward the owners up to 1,000 SAND worth roughly $3,000 at current prices. 795 Total views 5 Total shares The Sandbox metaverse game owned by NFT investment giant Animoca Brands has surpassed 2 million…

The Texas Stock Exchange (TXSE) reportedly secured around $120 million in funding and is prioritizing ETF listings, as well as aiming to offer a more competitive alternative to the two major US stock exchanges.

Travala is expanding its crypto-powered offerings thanks to a new partnership. Travala.com has recently added an additional 600,000 hotels to its crypto-powered online travel platform thanks to a recent partnership with booking giant, Agoda.Travala’s CEO, Juan Otero, told Cointelegraph that the number of properties on the platform has now reached over 2.2 million in total.…

Crypto taxation remains to be a controversial space, though some transparency is expected.

FinCEN will soon issue regulations on how financial institutions should incorporate its priorities on crypto considerations into their AML programs. 378 Total views 3 Total shares The United States’ Financial Crimes Enforcement Network will continue to closely follow the cryptocurrency industry as one of its top priorities for combating crimes like money laundering.FinCEN officially announced…