MicroStrategy Buys $175M More in Bitcoin, Upping BTC Holdings to $425M

The crypto sector's need for a friendly U.S. president became less urgent on election night as the Senate shifted toward the Republicans who've promised digital assets legislation. One of the U.S. lawmakers who stood in the path of crypto legislation, Senator Sherrod Brown, the chair of the Senate Banking Committee, was voted out — thanks

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW rounds out the story of the bitcoin futures ETF process that has dominated crypto chatter for the last week or more. He looks at the details of the first ETF that will go live, as well as why some on Twitter argue this is really…

Sep 9, 2020 at 02:00 UTCUpdated Sep 9, 2020 at 02:12 UTCMost New Customers at Japanese Exchange BitFlyer Are in Their 20sMore than 30% of new customers at bitFlyer, a major Japanese crypto exchange, are in their 20s, the exchange said. BitFlyer conducted a survey of Japanese customers who opened accounts this year between January…

feature The Takeaway: Swiss Digital Exchange (SDX), a unit of stock exchange operator SIX Group, has organized a global consortium of financial institutions to back its “initial digital offering” (IDO). The token sale is scheduled to happen by the middle of next year. The targeted proceeds are not yet public. SDX has modified its business…

Apr 14, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Apr 14, 2020 at 13:15 UTCSTAKING SERVICES: Bison Trails helps provide additional security features to Coinbase Custody’s existing storage services, CEO Joe Lalloz said. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)Coinbase Custody is launching staking support for holders of Polkadot's DOT tokens with the help of blockchain infrastructure firm Bison Trails.Announced Tuesday, the…

The attackers were managed to access direct messages from 36 accounts, including CoinDesk's. (Ravi Sharma/Unsplash)Authorities have identified another teenager who may have played a role in July’s Twitter hack, according to the New York Times. While three individuals have been arrested so far for their alleged involvement with the attack, authorities are now looking at…

Solana has garnered notoriety for its meme coin connection. But financial institutions are also interested in using the network to build their products. While Solana is newer than Ethereum, it doesn’t face the same challenges when it comes to transaction throughput and cheap fees. 00:56 Len Sassaman-Themed Memecoins Surge Ahead of HBO Bitcoin Creator Documentary

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news Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and CoinDesk’s Director of Research. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a weekly newsletter focused on institutional investment in crypto assets. Sign up for free here. Earlier this month, Heath Tarbert –…