Blockchain & Crypto Archives - Page 43 of 298

Fidelity Investments Asks U.S. SEC for Permission To Launch a Bitcoin ETF

March 26, 2021

Fidelity Investments, a financial giant with over $4.9 trillion in assets under management, has filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list a new bitcoin exchange-traded fund (...

Anonymous Bitcoin Whale Transfers 12,000 BTC

March 26, 2021

Bitcoin, the most valuable cryptocurrency in the world, is currently trading near $53,000 with a market cap of approximately $990 billion. Bitcoin whales are moving the digital currency in large amounts amid pr...

Binance Bolsters Regulations Team with Two Former FATF Executive Hires

March 26, 2021

Crypto exchange, Binance has strengthened its regulatory team with the appointment of two former Financial Action Task Force (FATF) executives, Rick McDonell and Josée Nadeau, as advisors. McDonell is a form...

Kraken CEO Reaffirms $1 Million Bitcoin Price Prediction

March 25, 2021

Jesse Powell, CEO of popular cryptocurrency trading platform Kraken, has reaffirmed he believes the price of bitcoin will hit $1 million in the next few years over monetary policy that has been seeing the sup...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell Calls Bitcoin ‘Essentially a Substitute for Gold’

March 25, 2021

Chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve Jerome Powell said recently that he considers Bitcoin to be an alternative to gold rather than the dollar. While speaking during the Bank of International Settlements Inn...

Cboe Plans to List Bitcoin Futures Again

March 25, 2021

US derivatives platform, Cboe Global Markets is considering to re-list Bitcoin futures almost two years after the exchange dropped the digital currency investment instrument, CEO Ed Tilly revealed in an inter...

People Can Now Buy a Tesla With Bitcoin Says Elon Musk

March 24, 2021

Tesla's CEO Elon Musk announced earlier today that it is now possible to buy Tesla vehicles in the U.S. with bitcoin, and followed up with another tweet that Bitcoin paid to Tesla will be retained as Bitcoin,...

Cryptocurrency Firm Blockchain.com Raises $300 Million

March 24, 2021

Cryptocurrency services provider, Blockchain.com announced today that the company has secured $300 million in a Series C funding round at a valuation of $5.2 billion. According to the official announcement b...

Cryptocurrency Exchange Coinbase Sees Massive Bitcoin Outflows

March 24, 2021

Coinbase, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, saw massive Bitcoin outflows yesterday. Nearly $1 billion worth of BTC has left the digital exchange in the last 24 hours. According to the d...

“Jay Mazini” Indicted on Fraud Charges in Bitcoin Scheme

March 24, 2021

Instagram influencer Jebara Igbara, who accumulated a million followers, was indicted on wire fraud charges related to a cryptocurrency scam, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. Federal prosecutors sai...