SEC Delays VanEck-SolidX Bitcoin ETF Decision to September

news Boston-based Nebulous, makers of the Sia network for decentralized data storage, has settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over an unregistered securities offering and conversion scheme. In a blog post Tuesday, the company announced the settlement without admitting fault. It will pay disgorgement of $120,000, prejudgment interest of $24,602 and a civil…

Jan 20, 2020 at 18:48 UTCUpdated Jan 20, 2020 at 18:49 UTCOpen interest in bitcoin futures listed on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) have doubled in the first few days of the year, as noted by data analytics firm Skew.About $235 million worth of positions (5,329 contracts) were open on the CME on Jan. 17…

A federal appeals court ruled last week that Binance needs to face a putative class-action lawsuit from a group of U.S.-based crypto investors who allege the exchange allowed them to buy and trade unregistered securities in the form of certain cryptocurrencies. The ruling doesn't make a determination on whether the tokens are indeed securities or

Sep 17, 2020 at 22:50 UTCUniswap’s Distribution Is Built on Something That Can’t Be Forked: Actual Users“I think that Uniswap is one of the premier DeFi [decentralized finance] protocols, and its token is as well,” Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO at Alameda Research, told CoinDesk via email. “It has been the largest decentralized trading venue for a…

Dec 4, 2019 at 16:51 UTCUpdated Dec 4, 2019 at 16:53 UTCMARKETS DAILY: Is Bitcoin Market Manipulation Profitable?Tune in as CoinDesk podcasts editor Adam B. Levine and senior markets reporter Brad Keoun run down recent action in the markets, interesting longer-term trends and some of the most important crypto industry developments of the day. Having…

Dec 5, 2019 at 10:54 UTCUpdated Dec 5, 2019 at 11:48 UTCBitcoin miners image via ShutterstockCanadian Government-Assisted Bitcoin Miner Files for Bankruptcy Owing MillionsGreat North Data, a firm that ran bitcoin mining and AI processing data centers in Canada, has filed for bankruptcy.According to bankruptcy filings late in November, the firm has just 4.6 million…

NEWS The U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) has released a new draft opinion that clears the way for people to mine cryptocurrencies as a way to support their preferred candidates. In a memorandum dated Nov. 13, attorneys with the FEC responded to a proposal submitted in September by OsiaNetwork LLC, which at the time asked…

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Piero Cipollone defended plans for a digital euro during a Monday lawmaker hearing, as the Italian central banker seeks approval to replace central bank digital currency (CBDC) supremo Fabio Panetta at the European Central Bank (ECB).Cipollone, who has been the Bank of Italy’s deputy governor since 2020, is the sole candidate to replace crypto skeptic