The Case for a Bitcoin ETF

The settlement with Genesis means users will get 100% of their funds returnedGemini co-founder Tyler Winklevoss calls Gemini "financial fraud" in a press release.Gemini announced Wednesday that its Gemini Earn users have received all their digital assets back in-kind.This means, for instance, that if a customer lent one bitcoin to the Earn program, they will

NEWS Sep 29, 2018 at 10:29 UTC  |  Updated  Sep 30, 2018 at 02:35 UTC Digital asset management firm Arrington XRP Capital may be poised to cease funding any U.S.-based startups. Partner and founder Michael Arrington tweeted Friday morning that the company had "received a second subpoena" from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) due to the…

news “The sky’s the limit in terms of how these sub networks can be constructed.”  That’s Emin Gün Sirer, CEO of AVA Labs and associate professor at Cornell University. Sirer is talking about his soon-to-be launched proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain, Ava.  “[Ava] is almost feature-complete with the codebase. We’re hoping to go public with a testnet…

The U.S. government Wednesday moved 10,000 Silk Road-related seized bitcoin (BTC) to Coinbase Prime, the exchange giant's institutional platform, blockchain data by Arkham Intelligence shows. The crypto wallet that initiated the transfer received the roughly $600 million worth of bitcoin two weeks ago from a wallet tagged as the "U.S. Government: Silk Road DOJ Confiscated

Parade of military forces, along with photographs of Qasem Soleimani, Tehran, Iran, May 31, 2019. (Image via Shutterstock)Bitcoin jumped the most in two weeks after a U.S. drone strike killed a top Iranian military commander, fueling speculation that heightened geopolitical turmoil might spur demand for the cryptocurrency in 2020. The digital asset’s price jumped 5 percent…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Danny is CoinDesk's Managing Editor for Data & Tokens. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Crypto connectivity project Helium kicked off its migration to the Solana…

Miami-Dade County in Florida has approved a resolution to create a task force to study the feasibility of accepting cryptocurrency as a form of payment for taxes.The Cryptocurrency Task Force will offer recommendations around other potential policies related to crypto that could prove advantageous, according to an announcement Wednesday.First and foremost, the task force will…

Apr 21, 2020 at 22:05 UTCJohn Roth image courtesy BittrexBittrex Exec Joins Mortgage Giant Fannie Mae After Crypto Exchange’s Brush With NYDFSReversing the common pattern of regulatory, law enforcement and government veterans joining the cryptocurrency industry, Bittrex US’s former chief compliance and ethics officer has moved to Fannie Mae.John Roth left the crypto exchange for…

Mar 4, 2020 at 06:56 UTCUpdated Mar 4, 2020 at 07:12 UTCIndia rupee image via ShutterstockThe Supreme Court of India has ruled against a decision imposed by the country's central bank nearly two years ago that curbed crypto trading in Asia's third-largest economy. According to a report from Bloomberg, a three-judge bench of the court…