Softbank, Baidu Lead $3 Million Funding for Ex-Googler’s Crypto Startup

Jul 27, 2020 at 08:32 UTCUpdated Jul 27, 2020 at 09:34 UTCCryptocurrency mining machines (Mark Agnor/Shutterstock)Ethereum Miners’ Income Soars by 60% in a Month – Outruns Ether’s Price JumpThe daily income earned by Ethereum miners has soared by over 60% in a month, shows data tracked by Ethereum mining pool Sparkpool. The surge in daily profit…

Oct 13, 2020 at 15:15 UTCUpdated Oct 13, 2020 at 15:16 UTC(Joshua Sortino/Unsplash)Ethereum Is Building the Internet of ValueThe internet is at the cusp of entering a new phase, one where entrenched rulers are dethroned, more power is reclaimed by individuals and value moves as freely as cat GIFs.To understand why we need a better…

Investment in artificial intelligence is growing quickly and could have a bigger impact on U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) than the discovery of electricity or the advent of personal computers, Goldman Sachs (GS) said in a report Tuesday.“Generative AI has enormous economic potential and could boost global labor productivity by more than 1 percentage point…

With ETPs, indices and derivatives, exchanges have started meeting demand for regulated crypto products, explains Kaiko's head of research.Six Swiss Exchange AG, Zurich, Switzerland, 2019. (Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg/Getty Images)Feb 10, 2021 at 2:30 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 10, 2021 at 2:35 p.m. UTCHow Traditional Exchanges Are Boosting Crypto AdoptionOver the past year, demand for regulated crypto investment…

TIA, the native token of modular blockchain network Celestia, is trading at $3.15 on decentralized derivatives exchange Helix ahead of the mainnet launch later this week.Binance has set a tentative listing date of Oct. 31 at 16:00 UTC for TIA, which is expected to be airdropped to around 600,000 wallets. Kucoin and Bybit said the

Aug 28, 2020 at 16:44 UTCBlockchain Bites: Winklevoss’ Wild Prediction, Bitcoin Miners’ Horde, Ethereum’s ‘Critical Bug’Mongolian authorities have put the kibosh on cheap electricity for crypto miners, Venezuela is seeing healthy crypto use outside government-approved exchanges and a “critical bug” has left 13% of Ethereum nodes useless. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the…

White supremacist groups in the U.S. have sometimes been funded by crypto, according to a report from the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) that analyzed about $140,000 in transactions connected to 15 extremist groups or individuals last year.The ADL, a New York-base advocacy group that counters antisemitism and extremism, focused on the movement of bitcoin, and saw

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Oct 22, 2020 at 13:10 UTCUpdated Oct 22, 2020 at 13:23 UTCFranklin Templeton was named for Benjamin Franklin (pictured on the $100 bill). (Patryk Kosmider/Shutterstock)Curv, a provider of cryptocurrency custody infrastructure, has been backed in an extended Series A funding round by investment firm Franklin Templeton and fintech-focused VC firm Illuminate Financial Management.The two new…