UK-Listed Firm Mode Putting up to 10% of Cash Reserves Into Bitcoin

Mode said it's the first U.K. listed firm to invest in bitcoin as part of its treasury management strategy.

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Blockchain firm Monerium thinks Europe 'already has' a digital euro

The ECB should grant e-money issuers access to central bank reserves, says Monerium.

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Square’s Bitcoin Investment Made $2 Million Over The Last 24 Hours

Bitcoin price blasted back above $11,000 in response to yesterday’s news that the Jack Dorsey-led Square Inc. had purchased 4,709 BTC to add to company reserves. Since the news broke about the payment firm’s innovative corporate investment – a growing trend now – the cryptocurrency has risen 4%, adding an enormous sum in ROI to […]

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Blockchain Bites: Square’s $50M BTC Investment, MetaMask’s 1M Users, BitMEX’s New CEO

Square became the latest publicly traded firm to pile cash reserves into bitcoin while members of BitMEX's founding team resign.

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Square Puts 1% of Total Assets in Bitcoin in Surprise $50M Investment

Jack Dorsey's payments company is the second publicly traded firm to put some portion of corporate reserves into bitcoin, following MicroStrategy's $425 million all-in bet.

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Nasdaq-Listed MicroStrategy May Soon Buy More Bitcoin After Forking Out $250m

Earlier this year, MicroStrategy made the news across the world when it became the first major, U. S. stock exchange-listed company to invest in Bitcoin. The Nasdaq-listed firm, whose shares trade under MSTR, purchased $250 million worth of the leading crypto from its cash reserves.

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Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s ‘Rich List,’ Ethereum’s Volatility, DeFi’s Shakeup

The number of addresses on Bitcoin’s “rich list" is reaching new highs while another firm is putting its cash reserves into bitcoin, not a bank account.

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Corporate Crypto Reserve Status: Software Firm Snappa Swaps 40% Cash Reserves for Bitcoin

On Monday, Canadian graphics software company, Snappa, revealed that it was holding bitcoin as a reserve asset. Snappa follows the firms Microstrategy and the Canadian restaurant chain Tahini’s by deciding to convert cash reserves into the scarce crypto asset.

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Canadian Software Startup Puts 40% of Cash Reserves Into Bitcoin

Graphic-design software firm Snappa described Bitcoin as "a far superior savings technology."

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USDC Reserve Attestation Report from Grant Thornton LLP - January 2020

Today, Circle released the latest attestation report on US dollar reserves backing USDC issued by independent accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP. The report states that as of January 31, 2020 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time (“PT”):USD Coin (“USDC”) tokens issued and outstanding = 440,715,490 USDCUS Dollars

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USDC Reserve Attestation Report from Grant Thornton LLP - December 2019

Today, Circle released the latest attestation report on US dollar reserves backing USDC issued by independent accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP. The report states that as of December 31, 2019 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time (“PT”): USD Coin (“USDC”) tokens issued and outstanding = 519,628,995 USDC US Dollars

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USDC Reserve Attestation Report from Grant Thornton LLP - November 2019

Today, Circle released the latest attestation report on US dollar reserves backing USDC issued by independent accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP. The report states that as of November 30, 2019 at 11:59 PM UTC: USD Coin (“USDC”) tokens issued and outstanding = 457,103,362 USDC US Dollars held in

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Circle’s USDC Stablecoin Receives Clean Audit Report; Fiat Backed Reserves Grow by Over 50%

The USDC stablecoin parent company, Circle, most recent audit report shows the firm is liquid enough to back its 1:1 token peg ratio against the dollar. According to the audit done by Grant Thornton, Circle’s operation is well balanced besides being supported by Financial Services giant, Goldman Sachs. Back in October, Circle issued a circulating […]

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Venezuela State-Run Oil Firm to Pay Suppliers in Bitcoin

As the age-long economic crisis rages on, Venezuela’s apex bank, Banco Central de Venezuela (BCV) is now running internal tests with officials to find out the possibility of holding bitcoin (BTC) and ether (ETH) in its coffers as foreign reserves, as the nation’s state-owned oil company is looking to pay suppliers in cryptos via theRead MoreRead More.

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Today, Circle released the latest attestation report on US dollar reserves backing USDC issued by independent accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP. The report states that as of May 31, 2019 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time: USD Coin (“USDC”) tokens issued and outstanding = 333,854,877 USDC US Dollars held

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During Bullish April, Fiat-to-Crypto Exchanges Outperform Crypto-to-Crypto

In its April 2019 Exchange Review, released on May 20, 2019, London-based crypto data analysis firm CryptoCompare found that fiat-to-crypto exchanges performed much better than crypto-to-crypto platforms did over the last month, as cryptocurrency prices rose across the board.

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See Circle Crypto Company’s USDC New April 2019 Attestation Report From Grant Thornton LLP

In a recently uploaded blog post, the Circle team informed that they have released the latest attestation report related to the US dollar reserves that it has to back the USDC. The attestation report has been released by the independent accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP.

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Results from the Most Recent TrueUSD Stablecoin’s Third-Party Audit

TrueUSD stablecoin recently went through a third-party audit. The audit verified that the platform indeed has U. S. dollar reserves sufficient to back the TUSD in circulation. An independent accounting firm released the results of the audit in an Independent Accountant’s Report.

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USDC Reserve Attestation Report from Grant Thornton LLP - April 2019

Today, Circle released the latest attestation report on US dollar reserves backing USDC issued by independent accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP. The report states that as of April 30, 2019 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time: USD Coin (“USDC”) tokens issued and outstanding = 293,184,174 USDC US Dollars held

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‘Trustworthy’ Bitcoin Exchange That Hid $850 Million Loss Raises $1 Billion

By CCN: Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardoino told Twitter that the firm was able to raise $1 billion in USDT within a short period because big investors know Bitfinex is “trustworthy. ” Trust, Don’t Verify The New York Attorney General’s office recently opened a very public investigation into the firm.

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In Light of Tether’s Fractional Reserve, a Shadow of Fiatcoins’ Future

Tether has taken a lot of heat for admitting it is running a fractional reserve. There’s no doubt that Tether’s unregulated nature makes this approach risky and that its lack of transparency is unsettling, but the entire modern banking system is architected on fractioned assets.

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Bitfinex Faces Legal Action From NY Attorney General: Here’s What This Means

The New York Office of the Attorney General (AG) wants to take a closer look into the business operations of Bitfinex and related stablecoin issuer Tether (USDT). According to a legal petition filed with the Supreme Court of New York, the NY Attorney General Office of Letitia James is applying for a court order to investigate Bitfinex’s suite of interrelated companies (including its umbrella firm iFinex and Tether Holdings Limited) for “ongoing fraud” to the tune of $850 million.

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Circle Releases Sixth Audit Report About its USDC Stablecoin Verifying Its US Dollar Reserves

Circle has recently released a new audit report related to its stablecoin USD Coin (USDC). The information was released by Circle in a blog post. The report signed by the auditing firm Grant Thornton shows that the firm has enough capital to back each USDC coin released to the market on a 1:1 basis. Circle […]

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USDC Reserve Attestation Report from Grant Thornton LLP - March 2019

Today, Circle released the latest attestation report on US dollar reserves backing USDC issued by independent accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP. The report states that as of March 31, 2019 at 11:59 PM Pacific Time: USD Coin (“USDC”) tokens issued and outstanding = 246,586,876 USDC US Dollars held

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Here’s How Much Bitcoin Countries Need to Replace Their Gold Reserves

New research from a digital asset management firm estimates the amount of BTC governments have to accumulate if Bitcoin were to replace the current gold reserves. ‘Governments Have Some Accumulating to Do’ Digital asset management firm Blocktown Capital has estimated the amount of BTC governments would have to accumulate if Bitcoin were to replace the current gold reserves.

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What Is DeFi and Where Does It Leave Bitcoin?

The Bitcoin bull and bear market cycles are a pattern that produces significant developments — when the market is cold, people tend to focus on building the next wave of groundbreaking technology.

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Bitmain’s IPO Filing Has Expired

Bitmain’s long-anticipated initial public offering (IPO) filing with the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is officially a bust. The mining titan’s IPO expired on Tuesday, March 26, 2019.

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USDC Reserve Attestation Report from Grant Thornton LLP - February 2019

Today, Circle released the latest attestation report on US dollar reserves backing USDC issued by independent accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP. The report states that as of February 28, 2019 at 11:59 PM UTC: USD Coin (“USDC”) tokens issued and outstanding = 236,917,932 USDC US Dollars held in

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GoldFinX: Empowering Artisanal Gold Mining and Legitimizing Crypto

Large corporations have always been “the most glamorous side” of the gold mining industry, equipped with machinery capable of emptying reserves at a frenetic pace while spending exorbitant budgets.

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QuadrigaCX and the Million Dollar Questions: What We Do and Don’t Know

QuadrigaCX Exchange’s founder, Gerald Cotten, passed away more than two months ago, and with his death, the keys to the exchange’s cold storage allegedly went to the grave with him.

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USDC Reserve Attestation Report from Grant Thornton LLP - January 2019

Today, Circle released the fourth attestation report on US dollar reserves backing USDC issued by independent accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP. The report states that as of January 31, 2019 at 11:59 PM UTC: USD Coin (“USDC”) tokens issued and outstanding = 307,793,724 USDC US Dollars held in

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Judge Delays Decision to Appoint Legal Counsel for QuadrigaCX Creditors

A group of lawyers from some of Canada’s top law firms convened in a court in Halifax, Nova Scotia, today to secure the right to represent creditors in the ongoing QuadrigaCX litigation.

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Court Grants QuadrigaCX Bankruptcy Protection

Today, February 5, 2019, a court in Nova Scotia, Canada, granted bankruptcy protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) to the embattled Vancouver-based cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX.

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Стейблкоин компании Circle прошел аудиторскую проверку

Компания Grant Thornton LLP – подразделение международной консалтинговой фирмы Grant Thornton International провела аудиторский отчет об аттестации стейблокоина USDC от криптостартапа Circle. Отчет подтвердил, что все токены USDC, находящиеся в обращении обеспечены достаточным количеством фиатных долларов.

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Аудиторская проверка подтвердила обеспеченность стейблкоина USDC

Аудиторская фирма Grant Thornton подтвердила, что в конце 2018 года стейблкоин USDC от стартапа Circle был полностью обеспечен фиатными резервами. Independent accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP issues attestation report on US Dollar reserves backing USD Coin (USDC) in circulation through December 2018.

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Стейблкоин USDC от Circle успешно прошел аудиторскую проверку

Аудиторская фирма Grant Thornton подтвердила, что в конце 2018 года стейблкоин USDC от стартапа Circle был полностью обеспечен фиатными резервами. Independent accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP issues attestation report on US Dollar reserves backing USD Coin (USDC) in circulation through December 2018.

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Circle’s USDC Stablecoin Fully Dollar Backed, Says Latest Auditor’s Report

Crypto finance startup Circle’s USDC stablecoin was fully backed with fiat reserves at the close of 2018, according to auditing firm Grant Thornton.

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USDC Reserve Attestation Report from Grant Thornton LLP - December 2018

Today, Circle released the third attestation report on US dollar reserves backing USDC issued by independent accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP. The report states that as of December 31, 2018 at 11:59 PM UTC: USD Coin (“USDC”) tokens issued and outstanding = 251,211,148 USDC US Dollars held in

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Block Propagation Startup Bloxroute Partners With Mining Operation Rawpool

On Thursday, Bloxroute Labs announced a partnership with the China-based mining operation Rawpool Group and global video communication software firm Yeecall. Both Rawpool and Yeecall plan to be the first cryptocurrency businesses to adopt Bloxroute’s product, dubbed the Blockchain Distribution Network version one.

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Стейблкоин USD Coin успешно прошел повторный аудит

Выпущенный компаниями Circle и Coinbase стейблкоин USD Coin (USDC) прошел повторный аудит, подтвердивший его обеспеченность заявленным количеством долларов США. Independent accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP issues second attestation report on US Dollar reserves backing USD Coin (USDC) in circulation.

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Повторный аудит USD Coin подтвердил обеспеченность стейблкоина твердой валютой

Выпущенный компаниями Circle и Coinbase стейблкоин USD Coin (USDC) прошел повторный аудит, подтвердивший его обеспеченность заявленным количеством долларов США. Independent accounting firm Grant Thornton LLP issues second attestation report on US Dollar reserves backing USD Coin (USDC) in circulation.

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USDC Reserve Attestation Report from Grant Thornton LLP - November 2018

Today, Circle released the second attestation report on US dollar reserves backing USDC issued by independent accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP. The report states that as of November 30, 2018 at 11:59 PM UTC: USD Coin (“USDC”) tokens issued and outstanding = 177,190,279 USDC US Dollars held in

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Circle Has Enough USD Reserves to Fully Back Its USDC Stablecoin, Auditors Say

CoinSpeaker Circle Has Enough USD Reserves to Fully Back Its USDC Stablecoin, Auditors Say According to the first attestation report on Circle’s stablecoin, the firm’s USDC supply is fully backed by its dollar holdings.

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Top 5 CPA Firm Confirms Funds in First Attestation of Circle’s USDC

Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) has released an independent, third-party attestation of its bank account, and according to a top 5 public accounting firm, the stablecoin has its funds in order.

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Independent Accounting Firm Grant Thornton LLP Issues Attestation Report on US Dollar Reserves Backing USDC Tokens in Circulation

Today, Circle released the first attestation report on US dollar reserves backing USDC issued by independent accounting firm, Grant Thornton LLP. The report states that as of October 31, 2018 at 11:59 PM UTC: USD Coin (“USDC”) tokens issued and outstanding = 127,408,827 USDC US Dollars held in

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“We Did This With Gold”: Could VanEck Be Bitcoin’s Best Bet for an ETF?

Gabor Gurbacs is confident that the approval of a bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) is inevitable. And he’s optimistic that the VanEck SolidX Bitcoin Strategy will be the first to deliver one to the world.

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Tether Confirms That It Is Banking With Bahamas-Based Deltec

Tether Limited is back in the news; this time, it has confirmed a banking relationship with a financial institution based out of the Bahamas. The issuer of the controversial USD-pegged stablecoin tether (USDT) announced its partnership with Bahamas-based Deltec Bank & Trust Limited.

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Three Years Later, Ethereum’s Hottest DApps Are (Still) ICOs and Cats

With Ethereum’s launch in 2015 came a flurry of excitement over the future potential of smart contracts. Utilizing a more flexible scripting language than Bitcoin, the platform’s decentralized applications (DApps) were touted by proponents as unlocking a plethora of formerly untapped use cases for the blockchain.

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Bitfinex Challenges Insolvency Rumors, Provides Proof of Wallet Reserves

Top-three cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex is pushing back against claims that call its solvency into question. The Hong Kong-based company released a blog post on October 7, 2017, that states, contrary to recent rumors, it is not insolvent.

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