Trump’s leading pick for Treasury Secretary is ‘very pro-crypto’

The U.S. president has not officially announced his nominations to fill the vacancies at the Federal Reserve, but two of his picks for CFTC commissioners as well as his choices to lead the Fed are moving to the Senate for confirmation. 1643 Total views 38 Total shares The White House is reportedly considering an Obama-era…

Cryptocurrency automated teller machine (ATMs) operator CoinFlip has postponed support for the  stablecoin tether (USDT). The company announced the development in a tweet on May 1.CoinFlip initially revealed that it will start listing Tron-powered stablecoin USDT at over 180 CoinFlip’s ATMs on April 30. However, in about 24 hours CoinFlip posted an update, saying that…

Gary Gensler praises the SEC Investor Advisory Committee’s proposed rule on safeguarding advisory client assets but thinks crypto firms may not be up to snuff. 241 Total views 52 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTUnited States Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler has again backed a proposed…

According to Senators Elizabeth Warren and Angus King, the Iranian government has used funds from crypto mining to fund terrorist organizations.

San Francisco-based incubator for the blockchain Ethereum Classic (ETC), ETC Labs, has announced that it has partnered with cryptocurrency firm Metronome to create a solution for Ethereum (ETH)/ETC interoperability, in an official blog post on June 27.Per the announcement, blockchain interoperability—also referred to as “chainhopping”—is a property of a blockchain asset meaning that it can…

Jennifer Bailey, the vice president of Apple’s payments service, Apple Pay, said that the company was watching cryptocurrencies closely as they believe it has long-term potential. The company claims that Apple pay processes about one billion transactions every month. With such a wide reach, Apple’s move to crypto, similar to Facebook, will be a huge…

"Merry Christmas guys. We got a lump of coal from Santa Claus," wrote one user in response to the allegations and the incident. Ho-ho-ho! Get Limited Holiday Trait!Collect this article as NFTOn Dec. 26, blockchain security firm CertiK issued a warning alleging that Defrost Finance, a decentralized leveraged trading platform on the Avalanche Blockchain, is…

Cointelegraph analyst and writer Marcel Pechman explains how the Credit Suisse bank crisis will impact the crypto market. 257 Total views 3 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTThe show Macro Markets, hosted by Marcel Pechman, which airs every Friday at 12 pm ET on the Cointelegraph Markets &…

A third of the world’s ether (ETH) is owned by just 376 people, according to Chainalysis research published on May 15.Despite controlling a large portion of ETH’s circulating supply, the study found these “whales” are responsible for just 7% of all transaction activity.Chainalysis concluded that while these individuals don’t necessarily have a meaningful impact on ETH’s…