Wealth Manager Canaccord: Bitcoin ETF Approval More Likely in 2019

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doubled down on his support for bitcoin during the BTC 2024 conference Crypto and its role in the economy has become a hot-button issue in the election. Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doubled down on his support for bitcoin at the BTC 2024 conference in Nashville. "I am a

news Donna Redel is an angel investor focusing on financial technology, blockchain and emerging technologies, professor of blockchain and a former chairman at the Commodity Exchange. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  If there’s any doubt institutions are moving fast on crypto asset adoption, take it from a teacher. In…

Comments from Fed chair Jerome Powell could tell bitcoiners how committed the central bank is to staying the course on low interest rates through the rest of the year.Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell testifies at a House Financial Services Committee hearing, Dec. 2, 2020.(Jim Lo Scalzo/Getty Images)Jan 26, 2021 at 10:03 p.m. UTCHow Bitcoiners Should…

Scammers have stolen millions in crypto pretending to be HitBTC, a little known crypto exchange founded in 2013, the team of MistTrack crypto compliance platform said in a tweet Monday morning. MistTrack belongs to the SlowMist company, which is focused on cybersecurity in crypto.According to the researchers, someone has set up the website hitbt2c.lol, mimicking…

Someone needs to remind the European Commission that it can’t have its cake and eat it too.An EC proposal this week for regulating a future central bank digital currency (CBDC) insisted that it must “protect privacy,” describing a system of NFC chip-based offline payments in which “nobody would be able to see what people are…

The trader had operated a registered digital currency exchange, but said he was unable to continue operating without banking services. Jan 18, 2021 at 12:05 p.m. UTCAustralian Bitcoin Trader Takes Banks to Tribunal After Sudden Account ClosuresA cryptocurrency trader in Australia is seeking 250,000 Australian dollars (US$192,000) in compensation from two banks claiming he was…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has launched its review of the latest bitcoin exchange-traded-fund (ETF) applications.While the regulator published documents seeking public consultations last week, the clock on the review process doesn't formally start until the filings are published in the federal register.The SEC has asked for comments on all five of Cboe’s…

MARKETS Nov 6, 2018 at 22:55 UTC  |  Updated  Nov 6, 2018 at 22:57 UTC The price of bitcoin cash rose more than 11 percent on Tuesday, pushing its price to a new two-month high. Market data shows that the cryptocurrency's price has risen 30 percent since Sunday, and is currently trading at roughly $623. Bitcoin…

A typical day for David Theodore, a security researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, often starts with him checking to see if there were any crashes on Ethereum, the world’s largest smart-contracts blockchain.After that, he and his colleagues set about trying to break it themselves.“Our goal is to break things hopefully before anyone else breaks them