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NEWS Aug 29, 2018 at 09:30 UTC  |  Updated  Aug 29, 2018 at 11:00 UTC Bithumb, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in South Korea, is reportedly renewing its contract with the country's Nonghyup Bank – a move that will allow the firm to once more accept new account registrations. Korean news agency Yonhap reports on…

Crypto adoption has remained steady in the U.S. and the U.K. in the past two years, the report said. Gemini said 65% of those surveyed said they held crypto for its long-term investment potential. The majority of crypto owners said they wanted to allocate 5% or more to digital assets, the survey said. Crypto adoption

opinion Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and a member of CoinDesk’s product team. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a free newsletter for institutional investors interested in cryptoassets, with news and views on crypto infrastructure delivered every Tuesday. Sign…

London-based CF Benchmarks provides reference data for crypto ETFs totalling $24 billion in AUM, mostly bitcoin products including BlackRock's IBIT.The firm is also now working with the new ETFs in Hong Kong which debuted earlier this week to rather meagre trading volume.The CEO of CF Benchmarks, a unit of cryptocurrency exchange Kraken, predicts that despite

news Joichi Ito, head of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has resigned after it was revealed that he and other Media Lab staff had attempted to conceal financial contributions from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The New Yorker reported last Friday that Ito and MIT Media lab – which hosts a…

The BOJ hiked the benchmark borrowing cost by 10 basis points, abandoning the prolonged negative interest rate policy.Bitcoin extended losses following the rate hike even as the yen remained under pressure.The new data-dependent BOJ could breed volatility and discourage the yen carry trades that are known to feed into risk assets.The Bank of Japan (BOJ)

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler is doubling down on his crypto objections in his first remarks following the second recent court setback in his agency’s sweeping legal fight with the industry.After decisions in the Ripple case that energized crypto advocates and the even more pronounced failure of the SEC’s Grayscale bitcoin

news Crypto exchange Poloniex is spinning out from its parent firm Circle, the companies announced Friday. According to a pair of blog posts, Poloniex will now become Polo Digital Assets, Ltd., an “independent international company” backed by an unnamed Asian investment firm. The trading platform will not serve U.S. customers after this year. U.S. residents…