SBI Buys Japanese Crypto Exchange TaoTao After Binance Talks End

Crypto crimes are raking in far less revenue this year due to a dry-up among hacks and scams, according to a mid-year report from Chainalysis, which tracks illicit wallet addresses.Through the end of June, the industry’s total losses to illicit actors ranged near $2.5 billion and had fallen 65% relative to mid-2022, whereas legitimate actors…

Jun 18, 2020 at 16:15 UTCUpdated Jun 18, 2020 at 16:33 UTCIt’s hard to pick just one stunning fact about the market suddenly created by the issuance of Compound’s COMP token. Since Monday, when the governance token started being released to users of tht decentralized lending platform, the total value locked (TVL) on Compound has…

The Stellar blockchain could be facing a delay of its much anticipated upgrade to add Ethereum-style smart contracts, after a bug was found that prompted developers and validators behind the project to reconsider the Jan. 30 target date.The Stellar Development Foundation, which supports the blockchain's ecosystem, found a bug on Jan. 25 in the Stellar

markets View Bitcoin hit a fresh 10-month high of $8,335 on Bitstamp earlier today and is currently reporting its largest monthly gain since November 2017. A bearish divergence of the hourly chart relative strength index and overbought conditions signaled by longer-duration RSIs indicate scope for a pullback to $7,400. A rally to $8,500 could be…

news Institutional investors are increasingly open to finding a place for digital assets in their portfolios, suggests new research. A survey conducted by Fidelity Investments and published Thursday found that, already, around 22 percent of investors have some exposure to digital assets, while 40 percent say they are open to taking the plunge in the next five…

The Marshall Islands has taken its bid to become a global hub for the incorporation of DAOs one step further.The tiny island nation between Australia and Hawai strengthened a previous law that recognized DAOs as legal entities, last week.The parliament of the Republic of the Marshall Islands passed legislation last week that takes its already

NEWS The Bitfury Group, a crypto mining and software company, has recruited two veterans of the traditional financial world to guide its strategy and growth. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Antoine Dresch, founder of tech investment fund Korelya Capital (which led an $80 million funding round for Bitfury) and former executive at several major investment banks, will join…

The adult entertainment website now accepts payment in 16 cryptocurrencies.Jan 20, 2021 at 9:09 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 20, 2021 at 10:07 p.m. UTCPornhub Now Accepts XRP, DOGE, BNB and USDCAdult entertainment website Pornhub, which last month was booted off mainstream payment networks, is now accepting payment in a cryptocurrency others are shunning: XRP.Along with XRP…

It's 2021 all over again as shares of video retailer GameStop (GME) soared Thursday after influential retail trader Keith Gill, better known under his RoaringKitty or DeepFuckingValue aliases, provided an update on his massive bet on the embattled stock.According to a screenshot posted on Reddit, Gill's stock and options position is now worth some $586