Semler Scientific shares up 30% after adopting Bitcoin as treasury reserve

Normally, there is very limited room for drawing legitimate comparisons between a Senate hearing and an Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) fight. Yet the hearing entitled “Exploring the Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Ecosystem,” which took place on October 11, 2018 on the US Senate’s Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs’ floor, definitely bore quite a few similarities…

Institutional investors withdrew a record $141 million from Bitcoin investment products this past week. 2764 Total views 4 Total shares The latest report from analytics firm CoinShares shows that outflows from institutional BTC investment products continue to surge. According to CoinShares’ June 7 Digital Asset Fund Flows Weekly report, institutional investors are continuing to reduce…

One of the fundamentals of launching an NFT collection is choosing where you’ll mint it to reach the moon. If everyone is choosing the Ethereum and Solana blockchain to mint their collection, does it mean it’s good for your collection too? Sometimes, less saturated blockchains like Ripple, Tezos and Polygon can turn out to be…

Multinational banking giant HSBC has reportedly become the first bank to complete financing transaction on European blockchain trade platform we.trade.Since we.trade started the project back in 2017, HSBC recently financed a transaction on the platform within a second round of pilots that started in June 2019, economics magazine Global Trade Review (GTR) reported on Aug.…

The right to privacy is a fundamental prerequisite for peace of mind and security. The idea that only criminals have something to hide is strange. Contrarily, privacy is sought by almost everyone. Yet, it still gets stigmatized as suspicious — reserved solely for criminals or deviants. Similarly sharing this unjust scrutiny are cryptocurrencies, which are —…

Digital currencies are primed to reinvent trade between African countries. 491 Total views 62 Total shares Ghana's vice president Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia believes that African governments need to embrace digital currencies to facilitate trade throughout the continent.As reported by Ghanaweb Bawumia outlined his argument during the Fifth Ghana International Trade and Finance Conference, which boasted…

Outgoing head Henson Orser will remain a consultant after Matthew White takes over as the new CEO of Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority. 269 Total views 6 Total shares Dubai’s dedicated crypto regulator, the Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA), is switching leaders as it prepares for the next phase of its “ramp up to full-scale

"Wild" data shows that more of the BTC supply has been dormant for at least a decade than that available for purchase on exchanges. Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTBitcoin (BTC) exchanges have less BTC to buy than at any time since early 2018, the latest data shows.On-chain analytics firm…

Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance announced that it will open registration and deposits on its platform for United States-based clients next week, Wednesday Sept. 18.Seven days to launchOn Sept. 11, Binance announced in a blog post that Binance.US will open registration and begin accepting deposits of Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), XRP, Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Litecoin (LTC)…