Volumes Surge on Turkey’s Crypto Exchanges as Lira Tanks

Oct 18, 2020 at 12:26 UTCA Day in the Life of the SplinternetIn 2030, at the interminable tail end of another hot, smoky summer in Mexico City, the power went out again and she went down into the basement where it was cooler. Other people from the apartment block were already sitting on the gritty…

At first blush, it looks redundant. The weekend before the U.S. presidential election, crypto-based prediction market Polymarket spun up a contract betting on who will be inaugurated as the next leader of the free world. 01:25 Short-Term Holders Panic Amid Bitcoin's Drop, $295M Long Liquidations 02:20 Kamala Harris' Winning Odds Rise on Polymarket; SEC Goes

Australia's securities regulator has sued the nation's largest exchange, ASX, for making misleading statement about its now-cancelled blockchain project. ASX’s statements were "deceptive" and "this was a collective failure by the ASX Board and senior executives," said ASIC. Australia's Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) has sued the country's largest market operator, ASX Limited, for allegedly

Two principals at a Chinese school got in hot water after stealing power from the institution to mine the ethereum cryptocurrency. According to a report from Hong Kong news outlet HK01 on Wednesday, Puman Middle School in Hunan province had been experiencing higher than normal noise levels from its computers over recent months, even on the…

feature The Takeaway Florida regulators are investigating Karatbars, a German company that’s been promoting a token tied to a Miami “crypto bank” without any banking license in the state. Karatbars previously issued a cryptocurrency purportedly backed by gold, but CoinDesk has been unable to verify the existence of the mine the company says produced the…

Jan 22, 2020 at 10:00 UTCUpdated Jan 22, 2020 at 10:03 UTCU.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York image via elbud / ShutterstockThe Chamber of Digital Commerce, a blockchain advocacy group, wants a U.S. court to distinguish between an investment contract and the underlying asset used by Telegram during a 2018 initial…

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Web3 music platform Sound has raised $20 million in funding to help artists earn a sustainable income throughout their careers.The Series A round, which closed in February, was led by venture capitalist firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), with participation from rapper Snoop Dogg, artist and producer Ryan Tedder, actor Ashton Kutcher-led firm Sound Ventures and more.Sound’s…

news Securitize, a firm that enables the issuance and management digital securities, announced its tenth on-chain digital asset. The Curzio Equity Owners’s (CEO) token represents an equity stake in the financial publishing analytics firm Curzio Research’s newsletter business. The token presents a path to invest in a “scalable, high-margin industry that is normally difficult for…