Morgan Stanley Boosts Stake in Bitcoin-Laden MicroStrategy to 10.9%

Bitcoin News Roundup for June 2, 2020 Not so good news for fans of $10K BTC. It’s CoinDesk’s Markets Daily Podcast. This episode is sponsored by Bitstamp and Ciphertrace For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS. Bitcoin’s price fell more than $800 in under five minutes on Tuesday, pushing the broader…

Jan 20, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Jan 20, 2020 at 13:03 UTCA Palestinian militant group took millions of dollars-worth of bitcoin donations to finance its operations, according to a new report.Obtained by the Jerusalem Post and reported Sunday, the report from the Israeli International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT) found the al-Nasser Brigades, the military wing…

Former BitConnect India head Divyesh Darji was arrested at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Sunday.

news Facebook’s hiring spree for its upcoming cryptocurrency, reportedly called “GobalCoin,” continues with the addition of a senior bank lobbyist from Standard Chartered, according to the Financial Times. In a report Friday, the FT said that the new hire, the bank’s managing director for group public and regulatory affairs, Edward Bowles, will join the social media giant…

news A polish cryptocurrency exchanged called Coinroom shut down on April 2, 2019, taking multiple customer accounts worth up to $15,000. The site is currently down and there is no way to contact the founders. “We don’t know how much they took,” said one user named Maciej. “But it is definitely a lot of cash.”…

May 27, 2020 at 12:00 UTCUpdated May 27, 2020 at 12:13 UTCPierre, South Dakota (Credit: Shutterstock)‘Focus on Retirement’: Crypto Custodian Rolls Out Hybrid IRA OfferingDigital asset custodian Kingdom Trust is offering investors a single retirement account for traditional and digital assets.  Called Choice, the South Dakota-based custodian is offering a self-service retirement platform where investors…

We weren't really sure if it was the last day or not. The jury determining Sam Bankman-Fried's fate had begun deliberating the charges just a few hours before, after Judge Lewis Kaplan had spent much of the morning and some time after lunch reading out a 60-page charging document. Surely a case of this complexity

Starknet, a prominent Ethereum layer-2 project, said Tuesday that it will bring staking to its main network on Nov. 26. StarkWare, the main developer firm behind Starknet, had shared in July that it would introduce a proposal for staking on the blockchain, but had not previously fixed the date of the rollout. 02:38 'High Likelihood'

news Data analytics giant Splunk raised $40,000 for charity from 10,000 attendees at its annual conference in Las Vegas last week by gifting everyone an ethereum-based blockchain wallet, in what became showcase for the power of “big data” merged with blockchain technology. Buttercup Bucks (BCB) was the name of the ERC-20 token created to pay for conference…