UK Government Pilots Blockchain in Bid to Secure Digital Evidence

The Ethereum Foundation – the Swiss non-profit organization at the heart of the Ethereum ecosystem – is under investigation by an unnamed "state authority," according to the group's website's GitHub repository.The scope of the investigation and its focus was unknown at press time. According to the GitHub commit dated Feb. 26, 2024, "we have received

Mar 19, 2020 at 07:32 UTCTim Grant, formerly the CEO of ConsenSys-backed startup DrumG Technologies, is to become head of business at Swiss blockchain-based stock exchange SDX.SDX, the digital asset trading venue being built from the ground up by Swiss stock exchange operator SIX Group, had been searching for a new leader to take over…

The market has agreed that staking is a really good deal — more so than core developers ever anticipated. There’s not just demand to build on Ethereum, but a wildly unanticipated demand to participate in Ethereum’s consensus, aka staking.Stakers put down collateral in the form of ETH to validate the network and receive rewards in

Nov 10, 2020 at 02:00 UTCHong Kong’s Amber Group Picks BitGo Trust in Quest for Institutional InvestorsCrypto market maker Amber Group will service its clientele of institutional traders with the help of BitGo Trust, the custodial arm of the Palo Alto-based security firm.BitGo’s status as a qualified custodian should draw more high-net-worth investors to Amber…

Lyra’s decentralized BTC options marketplace sees a 20% probability of prices rising above $70,000 by the end of April.Lyra recently listed options with an April 26 expiry, allowing traders to speculate on price trends ahead of and following Bitcoin’s reward halving due in mid-April.There is a one-in-five chance of bitcoin (BTC) crossing $70,000 by the

An advisory committee to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) believes the agency should provide clearer guidelines on how cryptocurrency transactions may be taxed. In a new report published on October 24, the Information Reporting Program Advisory Committee (IRPAC) highlighted cryptocurrencies' rise in popularity, noting that "there has also been an equal rise in question…

news A new report from crypto data startup Messari estimates that the true market capitalization and circulating supply of the digital asset XRP is markedly less than what data sources currently present. As depicted on data providers like CoinMarketCap as well as Ripple – the distributed ledger tech company closely linked to the digital asset…

markets View Bitcoin has risen nearly $2,000 in the last 24 hours, establishing strong support at $9,600. The outlook, however, would only turn bullish once the bearish lower-highs pattern is invalidated with a move above $12,448. A breakout, if confirmed, could be followed by a rise to or above the recent high of $13,880. Bitcoin could…

Aug 28, 2020 at 13:41 UTCUpdated Aug 28, 2020 at 14:25 UTCJapanese financial firm SBI Holdings is launching trading for a type of cryptocurrency derivative called contracts for difference, or CFDs. Already live on its foreign exchange trading platform, SBI FX Trade, the contracts come in bitcoin (BTC), ether (ETH) and XRP flavors.The firm said…