Reports surfaced that People’s Bank of China was almost ready to take Alibaba and Tencent onboard its digital asset program, but state-backed media deny the news.
The Bakkt exchange has been given the green light to operate a futures market with physical delivery, and will start accumulating coins in its custodial storage.
The Algorand (ALGO) project performed a round of crypto-based fundraising, receiving the sum in ALGO rather than US dollars, in a novel deal of pure crypto finance.
The judge on the case refuted the claims that Wright was Satoshi Nakamoto, and ordered that 50% of the Bitcoin (BTC) held in the Tulip Trust be awarded to the estate of Dave Kleiman.
The Bitcoin (BTC) white paper was published as a social science academic writeup, in another bid to add legitimacy to the claims that Wright is Satoshi Nakamoto.
Plus Token may be the new whale in town, taking away nearly $2 billion’s equivalent of Ethereum (ETH), becoming a larger pyramid scheme even than BitConnect.
Tether, Inc. has proposed the creation of a new stablecoin backed by Chinese yuan, to take advantage of China’s demand for trading and crypto transfers.
Echoing the concerns of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo stated that Bitcoin (BTC) posed a terrorism and money laundering threat.
The service, which profiled ICOs during the peak of token sales, did not register with the SEC and may have influenced buyers to invest in risky tokens.
The service is part of the Insta-Buy package, and supports fast and direct buying of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) with Euro (EUR) and Great Britain Pound (GBP).
In a lengthy revelation about the origins of Bitcoin, another claimant to Satoshi Nakamoto’s real identity spins a tale of numerology, cryptography and one broken laptop.