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Over 45,000 Bitcoin has been withdrawn from BitMex since the U.S. government levied charges against the exchange and its leadership. October 1 brought two devastating blows to BitMex. First, the CFTC and DOJ brought charges against the exchange. Shortly thereafter, its founders (including CEO Arthur Hayes), were indicted by the U.S. government. The
Read MoreIn a February 8, 2011 post on Bitcointalk, Finney said that reading a book titled “Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography” by Hankerson, Menezes, and Vanstone, gave him an idea of how to speed up signature verification by 25%. In the following post from the same day, Finney announced that he
Read MoreThe Oslo Freedom Forum, an event-based entity under the wing of the Human Rights Foundation, or HRF, digitally hosted Square CEO Jack Dorsey for a quick interview on YouTube. During the engagement, the CEO spoke positively of crypto's largest asset, Bitcoin (BTC). "The whole spirit of Bitcoin, for instance, is to
Read MoreIn a virtual fireside chat with the D.C. Bar, SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce criticized the commission’s long-standing resistance to a Bitcoin ETF.Moderator Ashley Ebersole asked about the SEC’s highly public dissatisfaction with a long series of Bitcoin ETF proposals in the U.S. Peirce, who is often known as "CryptoMom," responded
Read MoreIn a broad sense, 2020 has been the year of the COVID-19 pandemic. As it charges toward 1 million deaths and over 30 million infections, governments have been found wanting. Our institutions have crumbled, leaders reacted too slowly, and all of the systems both in place and newly created to
Read MoreCrypto prices may still be weighed down by a difficult global economic atmosphere, according to Joel Birch, co-founder of automated crypto investing platform Stacked. "I don't necessarily think that 2020 is going to be the year of some type of major retail bull run, largely due to the fact that the
Read MoreMore than $1 billion worth of Bitcoin (BTC) has now been tokenized to access decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols on the Ethereum (ETH) network. That’s equivalent to the entire total value locked (TVL) in DeFi less than four months ago.According to DeFi Pulse, roughly 98,300 BTC, worth $1.05 billion, has been
Read MoreThe Bitcoin Association of Hong Kong, a major local alliance promoting crypto awareness and education, is launching the “Bitcoin Tram” ad campaign in Hong Kong; one of the world’s main global financial centres.According to a Sept. 11 announcement, the new ad campaign composes three double-decker trams fully covered with Bitcoin
Read MoreAccording to a Morgan Stanley executive, the young and adventurous usually go for crypto, while older investors stick to more traditional assets.In a Sept. 8 interview with CNN anchor Julia Chatterley, Morgan Stanley’s head of emerging markets and chief global strategist Ruchir Sharma stated that the generational divide when it
Read MoreThe FBI executed a search warrant against a 16-year-old Massachusetts resident in connection with the massive Twitter breach.According to a New York Times report, on Sept. 1 authorities raided the home of a 16-year-old boy who may have played an “equal, if not more significant role” in the infamous July
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