SBI Holdings Again Invests in Crypto Exchange Under Scrutiny

Bitcoin (BTC) stood above the $28,400 level in European morning hours on Tuesday amid generally positive sentiment about the asset’s near-term future and a fundamental crypto law signed in the U.S., which likely helped buoy prices.California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a crypto licensing bill on Friday, set to take effect in July 2025, in a

Dec 8, 2019 at 13:05 UTCUpdated Dec 8, 2019 at 06:50 UTCDISCUSSION: How Can Public Blockchains Have Privacy?The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Today we're asking: how can public blockchains have privacy?Obscuring origins and game theory securityBreaking links with lightning and other layer-2sAdversarial relationships are economic in natureAttacks in theory vs.…

Renewed bias for leverage points to increased investor risk appetite. High-leverage liquidity in bitcoin is concentrated at around $58,500. Increased leverage indicates traders taking on more risk and a possible jump in price volatility. Leverage in the bitcoin (BTC) market is growing again, a sign traders are looking to take on more risk, potentially injecting

Aug 18, 2020 at 16:25 UTCUpdated Aug 18, 2020 at 16:40 UTCYFI price performance over the past seven days (CoinGecko)The governance token for yEarn.finance has shot up over 32,000% since mid-July as investors have poured hundreds of millions into its protocol, which identifies and exploits some of the best opportunities in the white-hot decentralized finance…

Exiled Russian opposition leader Mark Feygin is launching an anonymous, blockchain-powered referendum on the legitimacy of Vladimir Putin’s victory in Russia’s election.The vote will be conducted on an app called Russia2024, built using Rarimo’s Freedom Tool.Vladimir Putin just won his fifth term as Russian president, though the 87% landslide election victory has been labeled preordained

Feb 25, 2020 at 08:00 UTCCourt gavel image via ShutterstockSingapore’s Court of Appeals Rules Quoine Exchange in Breach of Contract in Landmark Crypto CaseSingapore's Court of Appeals has ruled against digital currency exchange Quoine on Monday in a landmark case relating to a breach of contract that saw the platform unlawfully reverse seven trades.The Straits…

news Nearly 2.7 trillion won ($2.3 billion) have been lost to crimes involving cryptocurrency in the last two years, according to South Korean government data. Figures provided by the country’s justice ministry on Sunday indicate that losses from crypto scams, Ponzi schemes, embezzlement and illegal exchange transactions came to 2.69 trillion won from July 2017 to…

Taproot Wizards, a Bitcoin-focused Ordinals project, raised $7.5 million in seed funding to try and "make bitcoin magical again."The investment round was led by crypto-focused venture capital firm Standard Crypto, with contributions from Geometry, Collider Ventures, StarkWare, UTXO Management, Bitcoin Frontier Fund, Masterkey and Newman Capital, according to a post on Taproot Wizards' X account

U.S. officials on Tuesday sanctioned a swath of crypto-holding wallets with alleged ties to the North Korean government, according to a statement from the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC).The blacklisted wallets – which contained bitcoin, ether, Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC – belonged to an individual named Sang Man Kim, a 58-year-old North…