Rejection Aside, Calls for a Bitcoin ETF Are Only Escalating

Coinbase Employees Have Begun to Take Severance PackagesCompanies can’t become “apolitical” overnight.According to multiple Coinbase workers, the plan to offer a clean exit for mission-dissenting staffers has been in the works for over six months. So far, at least three people in the 1,200-person firm have taken the severance package, one of these sources told…

feature “If you are fleeing a country with just the clothes on your back and you want to take your savings with you, bitcoin is an excellent kind of safe haven,” said Nic Carter, founding partner of Castle Island Ventures. “You’re happy to tolerate some of that exchange risk for the duration of the period…

NEWS Oct 30, 2018 at 18:32 UTC Bank of America was awarded a patent for a device that stores cryptographic keys on Tuesday, and the document's details hint at applications for cryptocurrencies. In a patent awarded Tuesday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the bank outlines a "hardened storage device" for storing private keys…

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Feb 15, 2020 at 10:40 UTCUpdated Feb 15, 2020 at 10:54 UTCFrom Crypto Self-Custody to Music Rights, This Mother-Daughter Dev Team Does It AllDeveloper Cindy Zimmerman and her mother Judy Katzman are among the cryptocurrency community’s most quietly prolific builders.After learning about bitcoin in 2011, Katzman worked for the early exchange BitInstant and Zimmerman moved…

Blockchain startup AlphaPoint has hired a senior executive from Cboe Global Markets, the parent of the Chicago Board of Exchange. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Kapil Rathi joined AlphaPoint as global head of trading markets,  a newly created position, and will be in charge of the company's trading and exchange business. He was previously Cboe's head of…

news Securitize, a provider of technology for issuing blockchain tokens, has registered as a transfer agent with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Administration (SEC), a move it says will boost adoption. Announced Wednesday, the registration means Securitize can now act as the official keeper of records about changes of ownership in securities. While that might…

Dec 5, 2019 at 14:00 UTCUpdated Dec 5, 2019 at 15:42 UTCThe latest ethereum hard fork, Istanbul, is bringing Layer 2 solutions to the network – this time in the form of a payment channel.Cryptographic research hub Matter Labs released Thursday the testnet of ZK-Sync, in what the firm claims is a step toward making…

One yet-to-tokenize, yet-to-launch zkEVM protocol to keep an eye on, according to van Weert, is the zkEVM startup Scroll – which has yet to deploy on Ethereum’s main network but has partnered with some big-name protocols. “They already have a very mature ecosystem on their testnet, whereas on zkSync it is lacking. I mean, the…