Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
In the wake of new crypto regulations in Australia, investment management firms Monochrome Asset Management Pty Ltd, and Vasco Trustees Ltd have led the charge, refiling their spot Bitcoin ETF application. This move marks the initiation of Australia&...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
The summary judgment in the Ripple vs. the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) case is celebrated as a huge victory for XRP and the entire crypto space. While the court determined that Ripple’s sale of XRP to institutional investors con...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Bank of America, one of the largest banks in the United States, has recently made headlines as it reportedly takes aim at prominent cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase. According to reports, Bank of America has been closing the accounts of individuals a...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Yesterday’s summary judgment in the legal battle between Ripple Labs and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sent shockwaves through the crypto industry. Ripple scored a huge partial victory. The court ruling only deemed past...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
In a surprise victory in court, XRP has been declared “not a security.” The win immediately resulted in an abrupt change in sentiment surrounding altcoins. Although the ruling only impacted the Ripple case outcome, it could have a lasting influence o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Bitcoin ETFs have been making waves in the United States since the first ETF was approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in 2021. However, across the pond, these digital assets exchange-traded funds have not had much luck. That is, u...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
The first bitcoin futures contract just launched in Argentina, allowing investors to speculate on the future price of BTC. For crypto investors in the Latin American country, this is significant and a signal that Argentina is embracing crypto innovat...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Bitrue, the Singapore-based crypto exchange, has recently made significant strides in the Shiba Inu ecosystem, introducing the highly anticipated Shibarium staking pool and listing LEASH, one of the ecosystem’s prominent tokens. These developme...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Dapper Labs, the tech firm and non-fungible token (NFT) creator, has announced its second round of staff layoffs in less than a year. The move comes amid a more broadly challenging market environment for NFTs and cryptocurrencies. The company behind...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has reached a settlement with cryptocurrency platform Celsius Network, which has been charged with duping consumers into transferring cryptocurrency into their platform and then “squandering” billions...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
In the latest development today, a multinational investment bank, Bank of America (BofA), has been accused of perpetrating anti-crypto moves. Around the early hours of the day, Muneeb Ali, co-founder of the layer-1 blockchain Stacks, tweeted via his...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
In a significant legal victory for Ripple, US District Judge Analisa Torres ruled in favor of Ripple in the lawsuit filed against it by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in December 2020. The SEC had alleged that Ripple had raised over...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
On-chain data shows that stablecoin sharks and whales have been strongly accumulating recently, something that could be positive for Bitcoin. Sharks & Whales Of Stablecoins Like DAI & USDP Are Accumulating According to data from the on-chain...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
According to a Bloomberg report, former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky was arrested on criminal charges filed by several U.S. regulators this Thursday. The crypto company filed for bankruptcy in 2022 as other large entities in the space crumbled with the...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
As anticipation mounts for the approval of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), recent findings from a Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH) survey have sent shockwaves through the crypto market. The survey, conducted among 325 global participants managing...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
In a recent development, Polygon Labs has unveiled a proposal to upgrade its native token, MATIC, to a new token called POL. The announcement, made through a blog post, introduces POL as a next-generation protocol token that aims to become a major dr...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
The Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, along with United States prosecutors, is currently investigating crypto traders and fund managers who possess significant wealth. These individuals are being scrutinized for their suspected participation in...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Binance’s BNB Chain is set to undergo the “ZhangHeng” upgrade later this month as the issue of network security continues to be a persistent concern in the cryptocurrency markets. According to the developers working on the project,...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
The impending ruling in the high-profile legal battle between Ripple and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has played a pivotal role in reshaping the liquidity dynamics in the crypto market. In a recent update to their quarterly crypt...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
A recent report from PwC has highlighted an interesting dynamic: despite an overall decrease in traditional hedge funds’ participation in crypto, confidence in the sector’s long-term prospects seems stronger than ever. Though this might s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Crypto scams have experienced a significant decline of 77% in the first half of 2023, plummeting from a staggering $3.3 billion to $1.1 billion, as shown in a recent report from blockchain intelligence firm, Chainalysis. This encouraging trend marks...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
The much-anticipated approval of a Bitcoin spot ETF in the United States faces a new hurdle as Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler appears to have cast doubt on the role of Coinbase’s surveillance sharing agreement (S...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
The United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has won a default judgment against Adam Todd, CEO of Digitex Futures, and four companies he controlled, with the court ordering Todd to pay roughly $16 million in disgorgement and penaltie...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
Ethereum has followed Bitcoin unfailingly since its inception and this has allowed the altcoin to establish itself as the second-largest cryptocurrency in the market. Even now, Bitcoin’s trend tends to set the pace for the likes of ETH and other altc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 year ago
According to a recent report by VentureBeat, Google Play has updated its policies to allow blockchain-based digital content, including non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and other tokenized digital assets, in its app store. The move is in response to the gr...
