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feature UPDATE 13:40 UTC: In a statement received by CoinDesk Thursday, the U.S. Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) says LedgerX has “not yet been approved by the Commission” to offer physically settled bitcoin futures, contradicting the company’s claims. CoinDesk will continue to follow this developing story. The Takeaway Bitcoin derivatives provider LedgerX announced it has launched…

Jun 24, 2020 at 10:30 UTCUpdated Jun 24, 2020 at 10:31 UTCArgo has nearly doubled its mining capacity for zcash, possibly as it looks to diversify from bitcoin. The publicly listed mining firm has bought 750 Antminer Z11s, that specialize in the Equihash algorithm, for a total of $474,000. The rigs are now already in…

Sep 22, 2020 at 15:25 UTCA decentralized way to copy bitcoin (BTC) over to Ethereum is relaunching today after a smart-contract bug sunk the project in May. Called tBTC, the Thesis-built protocol was first announced in April, and is now ready for a fresh start. BTC holders who want to use Ethereum but worry about…

news Coinbase Custody has just completed its first over-the-counter (OTC) trade directly out of cold, or offline, storage. Announcing the news in a blog post on Wednesday, the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange said the trade occurred after its Custody service had been “directly integrated” with the OTC desk at Coinbase Pro. The news, it said,…

Cannabis and Lending Firm Seeks SEC Permission to Raise $50M in Crypto SaleChicago based firm Ceres wants to build a “seed to sale” transaction network for cannabis on the blockchain using its dollar-backed stablecoin – if the digital security is approved for sale by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).  Launched in 2017 by…

news Bitpoint, a licensed cryptocurrency exchange based in Japan, has been hacked for $32 million in crypto assets. According to a CoinDesk Japan report on Friday, Bitpoint halted all services including trading, deposit and withdrawal of all crypto assets on Friday morning after it noticed irregular withdrawal from its hot wallet on Thursday. It is…

Moscow's government is planning to use ethereum as part of a system for allotting trading spots during weekend farmers markets. The system will record applications submitted by farmers, who compete for a limited number of commercial plots. Some 15,000 trading spots are up for grabs, with the market season stretching between April 20 and November…

ARK Invest continued to offload shares of ProShares Bitcoin Trust ETF (BITO) in the last week while accumulating its own spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund.Cathie Wood's investment firm sold a total of 2,226,191 shares of the bitcoin futures ETF since Jan. 19, worth around $42.8 million at Thursday's closing price of $19.22, from its Next Generation

news New York prosecutors have struck back at cryptocurrency exchange provider Bitfinex, telling a local court that they believe the company should be made to turn over documents outlining a nearly $900 million line of credit offered by stablecoin issuer Tether. The New York Attorney General’s (NYAG) first sued Bitfinex and Tether for all documents…