Kansas bill aims to allocate 10% of retirement funds to Bitcoin ETFs

Litecoin (LTC) founder Charlie Lee proposed mining pool donations as a new funding method for cryptocurrency development.  “I think a better way to fund development is mining pools voluntarily donate a portion of the block reward,” Lee said in a tweet on Jan. 24, adding:“How about Litecoin pools donate 1% (0.125 LTC) of block rewards to…

Lucas Geiger, co-founder of blockchain infrastructure startup Wireline, has announced OpenLibra — a permissionless fork of Facebook’s planned stablecoin.Ethereum developer Lane Rettig tweeted on Oct. 8 that OpenLibra was announced by Geiger at the Ethereum developer conference Devcon 5, adding:“Seeing #openlibra publicly announced for the first time is sending shivers down my spine. I am…

“Voting over the Internet presents more challenges, such as preventing double voting, technical hurdles to keep ballots secret, and the cost of voting devices." 499 Total views 10 Total shares Japanese firm Layer X will be partnering with a digital identity application called xID to build a blockchain-based voting system in the Japanese city of…

The exchange warned those who received payments from FTX or its former executives that it's looking to recover funds even if they were donated to charity. 1760 Total views 8 Total shares Own this piece of crypto history Collect this article as NFTBankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX says it is considering using legal avenues to recover…

Marc Cuban has offloaded some NFTs, while overall NFT sales volume dropped by 45% in Q2.

The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) gives its fintech research unit LabCFTC status as an independent operating office.Blockchain and digital assets are an important part of developmentEstablished by the CFTC in 2017 with the goal of engaging with the fintech community, LabCFTC will now be reporting directly to the authority’s chairman Heath Tarbert.…

While 2020 will go down as one of the toughest the world has faced collectively in many years, the success of the decentralized finance sector stands out as a major milestone for the cryptocurrency community.Amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, economies have shuddered, and governments and financial institutions have had to introduce drastic monetary policies and…

Canadian holding company dumped XMR and ETH to fund its acquisition. 296 Total views 1 Total shares Cypherpunk Holdings (CSE:HODL), a privacy-focused Canadian investment company, has upped its stake in Bitcoin (BTC). The company disclosed Thursday that it has added 72.979 BTC to its reserves since June 30, 2020.Cypherpunk funded the acquisition by liquidating its holdings…

Prominent angel investor Garry Tan invested $300,000 in Coinbase in 2013 and with today's COIN listing it's now worth $2.4 billion. 2843 Total views 17 Total shares Garry Tan, a prominent angel investor and the founder of Initialized Capital, was one of the first investors to provide seed funding to Coinbase eight years ago. Less than…