Judge Denies Effort to Move XRP Investor Lawsuit to Lower Court

The hype surrounding the upcoming Runes protocol saw Bitcoin meme coin PUPS jump some 50% in the past 24 hours as traders look to bet on Bitcoin-adjacent tokens and networks ahead of the halving.The meme coin was trading over $66 as of Asian afternoon hours with a $516 million market capitalization, making it the third-largest

Jun 16, 2020 at 14:00 UTCConsenSys founder Joe Lubin speaks at Devcon 5 in Osaka, Japan, October 2019. (ConsenSys)ConsenSys Spins Up Staking Service in Anticipation of Ethereum 2.0Ethereum development house ConsenSys is being backed by heavy hitters like Binance and Huobi to test its new “staking-as-a-service” offering, designed to make it easy for institutions to…

Mar 30, 2020 at 06:00 UTCESGCan Bitcoin Survive the Climate Change Revolution?Coronavirus might be the biggest story of the decade, but climate change will be the grand narrative of the century. As energy of any kind becomes of premium value to the planet, and the world’s transport systems come onto the electric grid, how will notoriously…

The U.S. Department of Justice charged two brothers with orchestrating an attack on Ethereum trading bots, charging them with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, wire fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering. In essence, the brothers found a way to target bots that were frontrunning transactions in a process called maximal extractable value, or MEV

Sep 9, 2020 at 19:45 UTCUpdated Sep 9, 2020 at 19:56 UTCTwetch, a micropayment-based social network that runs on the Bitcoin SV blockchain, has introduced an encrypted direct-messaging function that lets users send each other money in the chat. Released Wednesday, Twetch Chat adds a layer of privacy and security to the Twitter alternative and is in…

Telegram’s long-standing ethos of openness and free speech, hence the paper plane as its logo, has landed the messaging platform and CEO Pavel Durov in legal trouble. Yet, it’s important to remember that the global digital freedom Telegram enables has now also boosted real crypto adoption. Blink if you’ve missed it, but Web3 – the

news The director of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) experimental fintech initiative will step down. According to a statement released Friday, LabCFTC’s director and chief innovation officer, Daniel Gorfine, will leave his post to pursue a job in the private sector. In his two years with the agency, Gorfine spearheaded the LabCFTC project,…

Less than 24 hours before the U.S. Federal Reserve likely resumes its hawkish, monetary path, popular bitcoin was plodding along just above its freshly established $29,000 support.Other cryptos slogged through an equally dispiriting Tuesday with DOGE the one exception, rising by more than 8% over the past 24 hours, most of the gains occurring after…

Mar 12, 2020 at 19:04 UTCUpdated Mar 12, 2020 at 19:09 UTCIt turns out cold, hard cash with a helping of government bonds — not bitcoin or even gold — is where people turn in the face of a pandemic and market turmoil. Liquidations set in on the cryptocurrency market the day after the U.S. announced European…