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Sep 3, 2020 at 11:34 UTCUpdated Sep 3, 2020 at 11:37 UTCBitcoin prices Sept. 1-3 (CoinDesk BPI)Bitcoin (BTC) may soon extend Wednesday’s price pullback, according to a data metric that suggests there’s increased selling pressure in the market. While the top cryptocurrency by market value fell by 4% on Wednesday, it defended the long-held support…

Investment advisors were the largest holders of spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds as they held a total of $4.7 billion on behalf of clients. Goldman Sachs held $418 million worth of bitcoin while Morgan Stanley purchased $188 million. 45:11 Bitcoin’s Price Is Way Up. And $48 Trillion in Wealth Just Got Access 08:42 Bitcoin Ecosystem Developments

Ethereum has come a long way since the network went live in 2015 under the codename Frontier, transforming from a grand idea into what is now the foundation for thousands of decentralized applications. Still, with a rise in blockchains like Bitcoin and Solana competing for Ethereum’s developer and user base, the ecosystem is beginning to

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Gary Gensler was among three of the five committee members who approved the filings that made the first-ever spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) a reality.A commission votes notice on the SEC site shows Gensler, along with commissioners Hester Peirce and Mark Uyeda, were the three members who

The gap between prices for BTC and ETH's "next month" and "front month" futures surged last week to the highest since 2021.The so-called contango indicates bullish sentiment in the market.A rare pattern recently emerged in the Chicago Mercantile Exchange's (CME) futures market tied to bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH), signaling a strong investor inclination to

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A group of holders of Azuki non-fungible tokens (NFTs) is voting for the return of nearly 20,000 ether a week after the Elementals NFT mint, citing reasons ranging from disappointment with the collection to alleging the team to have “blatantly scammed” purchasers.The vote proposes to allocate any funds retrieved back to a decentralized autonomous organization…

Banking giant JPMorgan (JPM) has expanded its blockchain-based settlement token JPM Coin to euro-denominated payments, Bloomberg reported on Friday.JPM Coin went live with euro payments on Wednesday, according to the report, citing an interview with the bank's head of Coin Systems for Europe Basak Toprak. German tech firm Siemens conducted the first euro payment on…

Police in Hong Kong and Macau have arrested four further people in a probe linked to the JPEX crypto exchange, the South China Morning Post reported Friday.The arrest of people who the police say are "relatively close to core" of the scandal brings the total number of detentions to 18, and a number of other