Philippines’ Proposed ICO Rules Presume All Tokens Are Securities

Bitcoin climbed above $64,000 in early U.S. trading hours ahead of a number of Fed speakers, including Chairman Jerome Powell, and after China's Politburo reportedly pledged continuing support to that country's economy and markets. Bitcoin could see increased interest from retail and institutional investors following the approval of options trading on Blackrock's IBIT. Bitcoin (BTC)

How the Decentralized Web Transfers Wealth From Corporations to PeopleThe internet of today is broken. We can use the internet, but we don’t own anything we do. Companies control our domain names, the content we host on web servers and our access to the internet. Now that so much of our information is on social…

Robinhood (HOOD), the popular trading platform, plans to start EU crypto trading and U.K. brokerage operations in the coming weeks."With an experienced team in place, we will soon launch brokerage operations in the U.K.," Robinhood said in its third-quarter earnings statement on Tuesday. "As another step in global expansion, we are also planning to launch

May 15, 2020 at 17:10 UTCUpdated May 15, 2020 at 17:25 UTC(Credit: Chris Yang on Unsplash)Money Reimagined: No, Secretary Summers, Money Privacy Is a Vital FreedomIt was a provocative way to start the biggest cryptocurrency and blockchain event of the year.In the opening session of Consensus: Distributed this week, Lawrence Summers was asked by my…

Investors have sold more than $2 billion worth of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) since it was converted into an exchange-traded fund earlier this month.A large chunk of that exodus was FTX's bankruptcy estate dumping 22 million shares, according to private data CoinDesk reviewed and two people familiar with the matter.A slew of spot bitcoin

The iShares unit of fund management giant BlackRock (BLK) filed paperwork Thursday afternoon with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for the formation of a spot bitcoin (BTC) ETF.To be named the iShares Bitcoin Trust, the fund's assets are to "consist primarily of bitcoin held by a custodian on behalf of the Trust," according to…

Dec 26, 2019 at 19:00 UTCUpdated Dec 26, 2019 at 19:16 UTCE-commerce sales hit record highs this year as Americans continue to move their holiday shopping online.According to Mastercard’s SpendingPulse report, online retail grew 18.8% over last year’s holiday season. That’s enough to make online sales a record 14.6% of holiday shoppers total spend, the…

Jun 10, 2020 at 09:30 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/PogoniciCan build a better blockchain by paying people to burn one down? Beniamin Mincu, Transylvanian chief executive and founder of the Elrond Network, is in the midst of a 15-day campaign to do just that. Nearly two years after first revealing his “secure proof-of-stake” sharding protocol in a technical…