A U.S.-based mining firm has inked agreements with foreign investors to issue $13.9 million in shares in exchange for Bitcoin miners pushing 1 EH/s in hash power. The Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin (BTC) mining company Bit Digital has announced it will issue…
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1.5M Bitcoin Cash deposited on exchanges as fork looms
With Bitcoin Cash’s Nov. 15 chain split looming, BCH hodlers have deposited more than $300 million worth of the coin into exchanges since the start of the month. Bitcoin Cash (BCH) hodlers are scrambling to get their coins onto exchanges…
The SEC collected $1.26 billion from unregistered ICOs in 2020
In a record-breaking year, the SEC seized $4.68 billion — more than one-quarter of which came from cryptocurrency-related firms. The Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has collected more than $4.68 billion in illegal income and…
100 billion reasons Apple should get behind Bitcoin: Michael Saylor
Portfolio manager Dan Weiskopf has a win/win plan for a fitting marriage between tech’s biggest giant and Bitcoin, which has been endorsed by Michael Saylor. Apple should invest a portion of its massive cash reserves in Bitcoin, Toroso Investments’ portfolio…
‘Slippery slope’ as new Bitcoin mining pool censors transactions
The launch of a new ‘censored’ mining pool has some Bitcoiners worried its a harbinger of things to come. Blockchain analytics platform BlockSeer has launched the private beta version of a new Bitcoin (BTC) mining pool (Blockseer Mining Pool) that…
‘Why I spent $111K on a digital F1 Car’ — NFT collector
The buyer of last year’s most expensive NFT has finally come forward. In May 2019, a non-fungible token representing the first digital F1 car minted for the blockchain game F1 Delta Time was sold for a record breaking $110,000. The…
Institutional money is pumping the DeFi markets back up
Since making its first investment in October, Polychain Capital is now the 10th-largest holder of YFI. Institutional money appears to be flowing into the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, with Yearn Finance (YFI) among the top beneficiaries. According to crypto market…
Here’s why bulls aren’t bothered by Friday’s $525M Bitcoin options expiry
Even as $525 million in Bitcoin options expire on Friday, bulls are expected to strongly defend the $15.5K level. On Nov. 13, a total of $525 million in Bitcoin (BTC) options open interest is set to expire. This is similar…
Fund execs offer $1M bets that Bitcoin’s S2F model won’t come true
The S2F model predicts a Bitcoin price of up to $288,000 by 2022 but two fund execs are betting the model won’t pan out. Eric Wall, chief investment officer of crypto hedge fund Arcane Assets, has offered a $1 million…
“Unannounced” Ethereum Hard Fork Proves Not All Blockchain Networks Are Built The Same
Earlier today, a change to the underlying Ethereum code made by developers some time ago resulted in an unannounced hard fork, effectively splitting the Ethereum blockchain and creating a new version that is valid for upgraded nodes but seen as…