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Indonesian President Joko Widodo warned the Financial Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (PPATK) to monitor the use of crypto and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for money laundering during a speech last Wednesday at the 22nd Anniversary of the National Movement for Anti-Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing Prevention at the State Palace, Jakarta.The president said he is

BlackRock (BLK) revealed that it received $100,000 as “seed capital” for its proposed bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund, the investment giant disclosed in a fresh application with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).“The seed capital investor agreed to purchase $100,000 in shares on October 27, 2023, and on October 27, 2023 took delivery of 4,000

Jul 31, 2020 at 11:56 UTCUpdated Jul 31, 2020 at 11:57 UTCBank of Japan, Tokyo (Leonid Andronov/Shutterstock)The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has moved its most senior economist to lead the department responsible for research and development into central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Kazushige Kamiyama, formerly director-general of the BoJ's Research and Statistics Department, has moved…

Dec 19, 2019 at 12:11 UTCUpdated Dec 19, 2019 at 12:15 UTCAccounting multinational EY has released blockchain technology that it claims greatly reduces the cost of private transactions.In an announcement on Thursday, the firm said the third-generation of its zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) tech for the ethereum blockchain – originally dubbed Nightfall – is now available…

Oct 13, 2020 at 15:19 UTCUpdated Oct 13, 2020 at 15:38 UTCStone Ridge Calls Its $114M in Bitcoin ‘Primary Treasury Reserve Asset’; NYDIG Unit Raises $50MStone Ridge Holdings Group is stashing 10,000 BTC with the institutional asset manager’s crypto subsidiary NYDIG, which on Tuesday announced it raised an additional $50 million in funding.The private firm…

Taipei-based cryptocurrency trading and investment firm Kronos Research has opened doors for negotiations with a hacker who made off with $25 million of the firm's treasury early this month.In a message to the hacker, Kronos said, send back 90% of the stolen funds, and we'll drop this matter, Etherscan show.(Etherscan)Last week, the Taiwanese trading and

The Merge upgrade, which effectively brought the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) mechanism to Ethereum, was activated almost a year ago. The subsequent Ethereum Shapella upgrade, which allowed staked ETH withdrawals, is about six months old. With these two monumental changes, we saw the rise of the Ethereum staking industry, which already counts more than $40 billion worth

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Jamie Crawley is a CoinDesk news reporter based in London.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.The Central Bank of Montenegro (CBCG) plans to develop a central bank digital currency (CBDC) pilot…

Jun 30, 2020 at 12:10 UTC(krithnarong Raknagn/Shutterstock)Cryptocurrency investors have long sought a standardized way of measuring the size and depth of digital asset markets. A new data product from Coin Metrics seeks a way to approximate it. The cryptocurrency data firm announced its free float supply methodology for digital assets Tuesday to improve and standardize…