Maker of Wasabi Bitcoin Wallet Valued at $7.5M in First Equity Round

MARKETS Bitcoin’s 15-percent recovery from the 14-month low hit yesterday may have opened the doors for short-term price consolidation. The leading cryptocurrency by market value dropped through the support of the trendline connecting the August 2015 and August 2016 lows and fell to $3,474 yesterday – the lowest level since Sept. 17, 2017 (prices as…

news New research has found that the U.S. leads the world in the volume of tweets referencing bitcoin and Facebook’s planned Libra cryptocurrency. Fittingly published as a Twitter thread by crypto trading platform The TIE, the study found that 38.9 percent of posts on Twitter arose in the U.S., while 10.5 percent came from second place…

news Problems with Amazon’s cloud service, AWS, are disrupting services at some cryptocurrency exchanges on Friday. The Binance exchange is seeing problems internationally, according to its CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who tweeted: It’s causing some 500 error messages on APIs and affecting some withdrawal processing — CZ Binance (@cz_binance) August 23, 2019 The KuCoin cypto exchange…

Galaxy Digital saw growth across its three operating segments.The company’s strong performance has followed into the current quarter, Stifel said.The stock should be a core holding for equity investors looking for exposure to the digital asset ecosystem, the report said.00:47What's the Biggest Mistake Traders Make?01:11Will the Soaring U.S. Debt Lead to Market Shock?02:27SEC Seeks $1.95B

news UPDATE (March 6, 23:47 UTC): This article has been updated with additional comments from Coinbase clarifying how the exchange shares data with third-party analytics firms. ——————— Coinbase is taking steps to clarify statements made in the wake of its controversial acquisition of blockchain analytics firm Neutrino, a startup subsequently linked to Hacking Team, a group…

Fifteen years ago Lehman Brothers collapsed, destroying the retirement savings of millions of Americans. Congress and the White House responded to the ensuing financial crisis by passing the Dodd-Frank Act, which was meant to strengthen the financial system and protect consumers.Heath Tarbert, former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, is Chief Legal Officer at

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Feb 20, 2020 at 19:32 UTCUpdated Feb 20, 2020 at 19:39 UTCEthereum creator Vitalik Buterin at ETHDenver 2020. (Image via CoinDesk video)Where do things stand with the tech overhaul of the world’s second-largest blockchain?We took the question to ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin at ETHDenver last weekend. Here’s what he had to say:Eth 2.0 is the…

Terraform Labs Pte. has filed a voluntary petition in Delaware for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, according to documents filed on Jan. 21.The embattled cryptocurrency firm behind the failed stablecoin TerraUSD declared in the filing it has between $100 to $500 million in estimated assets and the same amount in liabilities. TerraUSD, a dollar-pegged cryptocurrency and Terra's