Korean Blockchain Groups Blast Plan to Strip Crypto Exchange Benefits

Miners listed in the U.S. have an advantage over private peers as they can raise capital easily, the broker said. Bernstein said it sees the large publicly traded U.S. bitcoin miners as consolidators in the sector. Leading miners should focus on growing market share and increasing their hashrates, the report said. Bitcoin (BTC) miners listed

Sep 9, 2020 at 02:31 UTCUpdated Sep 9, 2020 at 02:34 UTCVenezuela Blocks Access to Coinbase and Remittance Service MercaDolarA digital rights advocacy group in Venezuela said its government has blocked user access to two currency exchange platforms. According to Venezuela Inteligente, President Nicolas Maduro's government is denying its citizens from accessing U.S. crypto exchange…

news WeChat, the dominant messaging application in China operated by technology giant Tencent, has updated its payments policy that will prevent merchants on the platform from engaging in cryptocurrency-related activities. The messaging giant updated its Payment Service Protocol on April 30, indicating that merchants using its service shall not, among other things, “either directly or indirectly,” be…

Data tracking website MacroMicro's bitcoin futures smart money index rose to a record 13,711 last week.The record bias for bullish long positions comes days ahead of the SEC's impending decision on spot ETF applications.Some obsevers foresee a classic "sell the news" price action following the ETF launch.Smart money, or capital investments from institutional investors and

Double-digit losses in GameStop weigh over meme coins.Meme token GME and KITTY fall 25% and 10%, respectively.The controversial GameStop (GME) stock rally saw its second day of reversing on Monday, ending the U.S. trading session down 12% after a 40% drop on Friday This weighed down some meme tokens that tend to mirror the stock’s

Tenet - a liquid staking layer 1 blockchain built on the Cosmos network - will team with Conflux and Qtum, two blockchains with a heavy presence in China, to deepen the roots of the liquid staking industry in that country’s markets.Conflux and Qtum users will both stake a minimum of $1 million worth of their…

By digitizing the normally paper process, the Lygos joint venture says it's shown it can speed up bank guarantee issuances.Sydney, Australia (Dan Breckwoldt/Shutterstock)Feb 10, 2021 at 9:08 a.m. UTCIBM, Top Australian Banks Execute Country’s First Blockchain Bank GuaranteeA digital bank guarantee has just been executed over a blockchain system in Australia, in what’s being called…

For more than a decade, the blockchain industry has struggled with a self-determining question: how do we go mainstream? The quest for the killer app or company that suddenly moves the masses to cryptographic infrastructure has proven to be a daunting task. But unlocking product-market fit here represents more than a win for the consumer:

A federal judge "erred" in letting prediction market purveyor Kalshi list and trade election contracts, attorneys for the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission argued in a brief to an appellate court Wednesday, reiterating many of the arguments it made before the lower court. The district court judge overseeing Kalshi's suit against the CFTC ignored the