MicroStrategy Boosts Latest Debt-for-Bitcoin Offering to $900M

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Daniel Kuhn is a features reporter and assistant opinion editor for CoinDesk's Layer 2. He owns BTC and ETH.Coinbase has launched a new derivatives exchange in Bermuda, a totemic act showing the largest U.S. crypto exchange means business when it says U.S. crypto regulations are increasingly nonviable. The exchange, which has been publicly feuding with…

By 2050, bitcoin may settle 10% of international trade and 5% of local trade gain with central banks' holding it as a reserve asset, asset manager VanEck said in a report. Bitcoin layer-2 networks will play a key role to overcome scaling issues and allow BTC to be used as a medium of exchange, the

London-based liquidity provider B2C2 has acquired French market making firm Woorton in a deal that grants B2C2 access to Woorton's regulatory licenses, allowing it to operate in the EU, according to a press release.B2C2 can now offer its services to the EU's institutional sector via Woorton's PSAN (prestataires de services sur actifs numériques) license, which…

Su Zhu, a co-founder of failed crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), faced questions in a Singapore court for the first time as liquidators sought information to help retrieve assets, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday.The two-day court hearing required Zhu to respond to lawyers for liquidator Teneo with details on how the fund failed and

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Satoshi Nakamoto was most likely not a Russian money launderer, but that theory was briefly proposed during a meeting hosted by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Friday. The CFTC's Technology Advisory Committee (TAC) subcommittee on cryptocurrencies discussed securing digital assets during the hour-long session, highlighting issues with protecting investors' assets and how regulators…

news In crypto, where nothing is scarier than FOMO, there’s no better time for an extremely limited release of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) than Halloween. Take Decadent founder Olive Allen, for example. She’s using Oct. 31 to sell her first edition of 13 digital collectibles using a pop-up store on her website. “Thirteen is a great number,” she…

Oct 27, 2020 at 23:49 UTCUpdated Oct 28, 2020 at 00:20 UTCCoinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks at Consensus 2019.(CoinDesk archives)U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has disabled trading due to feed issues amid bitcoin’s ascension towards 2019 highs near $13,880.According to a company update on Wednesday, Coinbase said they were "currently investigating the issue," while no further…