Traders eye $71.5K Bitcoin price as open interest jumps 13%

Companies across industries are focused on improving their environmental, social and governance practices, and with good reason. In addition to having the desire to do good for its own sake, businesses are very aware that more and more investors are taking a company’s ESG standards and practices into account when making investment decisions. Crypto mining…

Despite never having done so, the Fed may have no choice but to implement negative rates as soon as next week, argues Narayana Kocherlakota. 3401 Total views 42 Total shares The United States Federal Reserve could be the next central bank to take up previously unthinkable negative interest rates.That was the opinion of the ex-president…

Privacy coins aren’t a major money laundering risk a new white paper argues. Privacy coins including Monero, Dash, Grin, and Zcash pose less of a risk of money laundering than other cryptocurrencies according to a report by a global law firm.According to a new white paper released by U.S. international law firm Perkins Coie, anti-money…

Record spending in a Democratic House primary could not give a political newcomer the boost he needed to overcome a local politician with a long career. 191 Total views 9 Total shares Andrea Salinas has won the Democratic primary election for the newly created Oregon 6th District seat in the United States House of Representatives.…

We ask the buidlers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector for their thoughts on the industry… and throw in a few random zingers to keep them on their toes!This week, our 6 Questions go to Dominik Schiener, a co-founder of the Iota Foundation, a nonprofit organization, and the creator of the Tangle, a permissionless, multi-dimensional…

A contributor of major Ethereum browser extension Metamask has reported that the MetaMask team is “totally overwhelmed” and not being prioritized by its parent company ConsenSys.In a Dec. 25 Reddit post, Reddit user lazaridiscom3 alleges that the MetaMask team is not getting the support it needs from ConsenSys, and, consequently, the whole team of 24…

The CEO of state-owned Russian bank Sberbank has officially confirmed the institution’s decision to not develop crypto-related services, local financial publication Banki.ru reports on June 7.Herman Gref, Sberbank CEO and a former minister of economics and trade of Russia, claimed that the bank has never had any ambitious plans in the crypto space. Instead, the…

MakerDAO (MKR) has denied accusations that the Maker Foundation placed the winning bids in all of its recent debt auctions.In a statement shared with Cointelegraph, the Maker Foundation states that it “is not purchasing MKR in the auctions.”Maker Foundation provides “limited technical assistance to some bidders”“Similar to how the Foundation created the Auction UI,” the…

ENJ, the native token of the Enjin blockchain ecosystem, is up 31% in the last 24 hours for three key reasons. 3660 Total views 32 Total shares The price of Enjin, the native token of the blockchain gaming and NFT-focused project, has surged by more than 30% in the last 24 hours.There are three major…