UK Law Panel Defines Crypto Assets as Property

Miners appear to have just sold long-dormant bitcoin, sourced from old block rewards, right when BTC plunged from its record high on Tuesday.Given the market's thin liquidity, it could have had an outsized impact on bitcoin's price.Bitcoin's rapid price ascent during the last month, which culminated in a new all-time high and quick reversal on

Last week President Donald Trump accused Twitter of stifling his speech after it accused him of spreading misinformation.  In an escalating series of actions, Twitter took the unprecedented step of fact-checking the U.S. President and then shielded another presidential tweet for “glorifying violence.” In response, Trump pushed out an executive order taking aim at a…

The Nasdaq exchange has refiled its application to list BlackRock's proposed bitcoin exchange-traded fund, joining rivals in naming the U.S. exchange Coinbase as the market that will be monitored in a so-called surveillance-sharing agreement.The refiling follows feedback reportedly given to applicants for spot bitcoin ETFs by U.S. securities regulators that filings were "inadequate" without the…

news Venezuela’s largest department store will install blockchain-enabled cash registers in its 49 retail outlets. The megastore operator Traki announced August 22, it will integrate Singapore-based Pundi X’s point-of-sale device, XPOS, to offer a cryptocurrency payment rail for shoppers. Already available in 30 countries, Pundi aims to sell 100,000 XPOS devices by 2021. This is…

I was out sick yesterday and so instead of anything resembling a proper newsletter, I have a few thoughts on salient issues of our time, like how an impending government shutdown is probably Not Good News for crypto's D.C. hopes.On a trial-related note, you received preview copies of The SBF Trial, a newsletter we launched

Bitcoin’s RSI signals caution to short-term traders looking to chase the price rally, according to The Market Ear.The overbought reading on the RSI signals the potential for a temporary price correction.Bitcoin (BTC), the leading cryptocurrency by market value, has gained over 40% in four weeks and is trading just 12% short of its record high

Users of the long-troubled cryptocurrency exchange WEX have begun filing police reports after more than three months of being unable to withdraw major cryptocurrencies or fiat, CoinDesk has learned. A WEX trader named Ruslan, who has been encouraging other users to seek an official investigation, told CoinDesk that as many as 35 such reports have…

Tokenization platform Libre, which is working with Nomura's Laser Digital, Brevan Howard's WebN Group and Hamilton Lane, goes live.Libre has added a tokenized version of a BlackRock money-market fund so investors can earn yield while parking their capital.CEO Avtar Sehra says collateralized lending with Nomura's Laser Digital as liquidity is planned for early in the

Jul 30, 2020 at 15:00 UTCUpdated Jul 30, 2020 at 15:21 UTCDharma wheel (Met Museum, modified using PhotoMosh)Dharma wants to do for DeFi what Robinhood did for stock trading: make it stupid easy.  The Coinbase-backed decentralized finance startup is adding token-exchange protocol Uniswap as its latest in-app offering. In addition to earning “interest” on Ethereum…