Senior BitConnect Promotor Arrested by Indian Authorities

Metaplanet said it negotiated a $6.8 million loan "with the entire amount allocated for purchasing bitcoin." As of the start of July, Metaplanet held a total of 161.3 BTC ($9.2 million). 01:10 Bitcoin Extends Rally as $1B in BTC Withdrawals Suggests Bullish Mood 13:53 Bitcoin's Price Rallied 28% in October as Crypto Rally Widened 01:14

A technical analysis indicator called Bollinger Bands, signaling a volatility explosion in bitcoin (BTC), has grabbed the attention of crypto traders and analysts ahead of the U.S. inflation report for June."Bollinger bands are tight. How tight? Squeezes of this caliber have only ever occurred a handful of times in the past decade. Most squeezes like…

news Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency payments initiative could be subject to the “highest standards” in global regulation, said Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England. According to a Financial Times report on Tuesday, Carney noted during a central bank meeting in Portugal that he remains “open minded” on the utility of Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency,…

PodcastsCoinDesk Podcast NetworkThe Bitcoin Whales Won’t Stop BuyingListen onIcons/Big/Google-PodcastsApple PodcastsIcons/Big/SpotifySpotifyIcons/Big/PocketcastsPocket CastsIcons/Big/Apple-PodcastsGoogle PodcastsIcons/Big/CastboxCastboxIcons/Big/StitcherStitcherIcons/Big/RadioPublicRadioPublicIcons/Big/IHeartiHeart RadioIcons/Big/RssRSS FeedJan 25, 2021Nathaniel WhittemoreHostAccording to a number of different data points, bitcoin whales saw last week’s volatility and price declines as a chance to accumulate. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.Download this episodeToday’s grab-bag episode looks at five different topics:Bitcoin whales kept…

news Blockchain payments startup Ripple has added new director to its board, Yoshitaka Kitao, who is currently president, representative director and CEO of Japanese financial giant SBI Holdings. Ripple announced the news last week, saying that Kitao will be replacing the CEO of SBI Ripple Asia Takashi Okita. Kitao has over 40 years of work experience in…

Franklin Templeton, a $1.5 trillion asset manager, has made its OnChain U.S. Government Money Market Fund (FOBXX) available on Ethereum via layer-2 blockchain Arbitrum, the company said Thursday. This is the third blockchain where the fund's shares can be traded. Previously, the fund was tokenized on Stellar and Polygon, another layer-2 network of Ethereum. "The

Apr 14, 2020 at 08:09 UTCUpdated Apr 14, 2020 at 08:14 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/natmac stockOne of the world's largest video platforms, iQiyi, hopes to improve its user experience after joining forces with a public blockchain that enables bandwidth sharing.The freshly inked deal will see the Beijing-based video platform use the peer-to-peer infrastructure from New Kind of…

feature A state-owned bank in Brazil is about to issue a crypto token designed to maintain parity with the national currency. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, the Brazilian National Social Development Bank will launch a pilot in January 2019 for the BNDES token, which runs on the ethereum blockchain and is backed 1-for-1 by Brazilian real.…

Chainalysis declined to directly link the donation to the Jan. 6 storming but said the timing "warrants suspicion."(Samuel Corum/Getty Images)Jan 14, 2021 at 7:31 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 14, 2021 at 7:43 p.m. UTCAlt-Right Groups Received $500K in BTC Month Before Capitol Riot: ChainalysisAlt-right extremist groups and a handful of personalities linked to last week’s storming…