The SEC Is Reviewing the Bitwise Bitcoin ETF Rejection

news Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and CoinDesk’s Director of Research. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a weekly newsletter focused on institutional investment in crypto assets. Sign up for free here. Earlier this month, Heath Tarbert –…

Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation. He owns marginal amounts of bitcoin and ether.Poloniex LLC, a U.S. entity previously affiliated with the Poloniex crypto exchange, will remit $7.59 million to settle sanctions violations allegations with the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC), the sanctions watchdog said Monday.The…

news Muneeb Ali, CEO of Blockstack, is attempting to build a decentralized internet where users have control over their own data. In this interview with Coindesk’s Leigh Cuen he discusses how his firm’s native utility token gained Reg A+ regulatory approval and what that means for the industry. “This is the first time ever that…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Bradley Keoun is the managing editor of CoinDesk's Markets team. He owns less than $1,000 each of several cryptocurrencies. Sage D. Young is a tech protocol reporter at CoinDesk. He owns a few NFTs, gold and silver, as well as…

Dec 11, 2019 at 21:25 UTCUpdated Dec 11, 2019 at 21:37 UTCJack Dorsey speaks at Consensus 2018, image via CoinDesk archivesJack Dorsey Announces New Twitter Team: Square Crypto, but for Social MediaJack Dorsey's latest foray into decentralized technology could be a harbinger of a radical shift in social media infrastructure. It all depends on the…

A new report from the failed crypto exchange FTX’s current leadership says that former FTX US President Brett Harrison resigned last September partly because of a “protracted disagreement” with CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and members of his inner circle.The report, filed Sunday with the U.S. bankruptcy court in Delaware, is FTX CEO John J. Ray III’s…

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The ProShares Bitcoin Strategy exchange-traded fund’s trading volume topped $1 billion on its first day, ranking the investment vehicle as one of the top ETF launches in history.As of 4:27 p.m. ET, after the close of U.S. stock markets on Tuesday, trading volume in the ProShares ETF (ticker $BITO) had reached 23.9 million shares, worth…

Bitcoin mining pool F2Pool has returned 19.8 bitcoin (BTC) to Paxos after the crypto services firm paid a $520,000 fee on a transaction worth just $2,000 earlier this week.Paxos said the overpayment was due to a "bug" in the corporate operations side of business. Bitcoin fees are typically no more than $20 per transaction. Blockchain