The First Car Purchased With Bitcoin Is Now the World’s Most Expensive Prius

news The Takeaway: Block.One’s yearlong initial coin offering (ICO) for the EOS blockchain raised a record-breaking $4.1 billion in 2018. LiquidApps created a second-layer protocol for EOS to offload computing expenses for dapps, which became very expensive just a few months after EOS launched. In a similarly yearlong ICO, LiquidApps is currently selling DAPP tokens to be used…

news The venture capital arm of ethereum development studio ConsenSys is continuing to invest in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space with the backing of two early-stage startups. ConsenSys Ventures announced Thursday that it invested $1.15 million investment in zero-knowledge proof (ZKP) cryptography startup Ligero, while Philippines-based cryptocurrency exchange PDAX received an undisclosed sum. Kavita Gupta, founder…

Sep 15, 2020 at 16:00 UTCUpdated Sep 15, 2020 at 16:09 UTCBitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 15, 2020With BTC crossing into bullish territory and a new smart contract-powered tokenized DeFi Index, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup! For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases , subscribe with Apple…

May 14, 2020 at 12:52 UTCUpdated May 14, 2020 at 13:09 UTCCoinDesk 50: Silvergate – The Bank That Wasn’t ScaredCrypto’s first IPO was a 30-year-old bank.Southern California’s Silvergate Bank, which went public in November 2019, is one of just a handful in the U.S. willing to bank cryptocurrency firms. Since November, it’s spent part of…

Tesla moved nearly its entire Bitcoin stash, worth nearly $780 million, to new wallets last week, causing some market volatility, but the BTC remains unsold and is believed to still be owned by Tesla. Bitcoin has been redistributed into several wallets, with the largest holding between $121 million and $142 million in BTC. Tesla continues

FalconX will pay $1.8 million to settle newly-announced charges from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) that the crypto trading firm violated commodities laws by failing to register as a futures commission merchant (FCM), according to a Monday announcement from the regulator.Through its “Edge” product, FalconX acted as a crypto prime broker, offering institutional clients

news Nexo, the Zug, Switzerland-based cryptofinancer, has signed a deal with Singapore’s Terra, agreeing to take deposits in the soon-to-be-introduced, East Asia-focused token. “We love their approach to stable coins,” said Antoni Trenchev, managing partner of Nexo. Under the terms of the agreement announced July 1, Nexo will accept Terra’s token for deposit, allowing owners…

In November 2022, El Salvador President Nayib Bukele announced a country-level dollar cost averaging (DCA) plan, promising to buy one bitcoin every day.At the time, the country – based on public statements from Bukele - was already the owner of 2,381 bitcoins purchased at an average price of roughly $44,300. The price then was just

The decentralized exchange is adding messaging and ID verification features to address the worries that have kept institutional investors at bay.