Stolen Poloniex Ether worth $53M never made it back to the exchange

"The earliest date for launch of a U.K. CBDC would be in the second half of the decade,” said the Bank of England, adding no final decision has yet been made. 1039 Total views 5 Total shares The Bank of England and the United Kingdom finance ministry are planning to launch a consultation on the…

Sameer Dubey is a 10-year veteran of Barclays and former head of operations for N26. 412 Total views 9 Total shares U.K.-based crypto exchange Bitstamp has hired a former director of financial services company Barclays’ payments team as its chief operating officer.In an announcement today, Bistamp said it would be appointing Sameer Dubey to the…

Back in June, I wrote that Wall Street remaining on the sidelines is not necessarily bad for our industry. While most traditional investors are still observing, Bitcoin’s (BTC) mainstream momentum has been building over the last four months. Currently, the Bitcoin price is hovering around $18,000, steadily approaching its historical all-time high.Bitcoin is a store…

Dutch artist Dadara and digital rights management platform RAIRtech have developed a collection of 7.9 billion identical nonfungible tokens (NFTs).The collection, named CryptoGreymen, is on the Polygon (MATIC) Ethereum scaling network. Although each NFT is identical, they will be assigned a serial number of up to 7.9 billion to reflect the number of humans currently…

The group reported it had observed an increase in trading volume and open interest for ETH futures and micro-sized ETH futures options, possibly in anticipation of the Merge. 347 Total views 6 Total shares Major derivatives marketplace Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group intends to launch options trading for its Ether (ETH) futures products.In a Thursday announcement, the…

The United States Internal Revenue Service has been hunting crypto vigorously for more than five years now, and the pace is getting faster. A couple of decades ago, the IRS was after offshore accounts, and that effort was among the most successful in the IRS’ history. Now, it’s crypto the IRS is after, and there’s…

The Turkish finance minister reportedly stated that crypto assets are the sole outstanding technical compliance matter. 287 Total views 3 Total shares Turkey is reportedly drafting fresh regulations to govern crypto assets in an effort to convince the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) — an international organization responsible for combating financial crimes — to remove

Lucas Geiger, co-founder of blockchain infrastructure startup Wireline, has announced OpenLibra — a permissionless fork of Facebook’s planned stablecoin.Ethereum developer Lane Rettig tweeted on Oct. 8 that OpenLibra was announced by Geiger at the Ethereum developer conference Devcon 5, adding:“Seeing #openlibra publicly announced for the first time is sending shivers down my spine. I am…

District court judge Analisa Torres denied the SEC's motion to file an appeal, claiming that the regulator did not meet its burden to show that were substantial grounds for difference of opinion. 387 Total views 2 Total shares District court judge Analisa Torres has rejected the United States Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) motion to