House of Lords members call for crypto regulation beyond upcoming financial bill

The Financial Services and Markets Bill, which sweeps parts of crypto into financial regulation, came under scrutiny in the UK Parliament, where members of the House of Lords called for greater regula...

Barry Silbert defends DCG in response to Gemini’s Winklevoss

Barry Silbert laid out a point by point rebuke of accusations made by Gemini President Cameron Winklevoss in an open letter earlier today that demanded the removal of the Digital Currency Group chief ...

Ondo Finance launches three tokenized U.S. Treasuries and bonds

Ondo Finance, a DeFi firm offering decentralized investment opportunities, has launched tokenized versions of U.S. treasuries and bonds.  These tokenized products let stablecoin holders invest i...

Coinbase pops 7% after job cuts; Needham says buy

Coinbase jumped 7% after saying it would cut staff, with Needham calling it “necessary” and holding onto its buy rating.  The exchange is cutting 950 employees, which should reduce o...

Bitcoin steady around $17,250 as altcoins dip, Coinbase jumps on job cuts

Bitcoin and ether held onto gains as altcoins traded lower, while traditional markets rose modestly. Coinbase popped following its latest layoff announcement.  Bitcoin was trading around $17,270...

Gemini CEO Winklevoss escalates DCG spat, demands removal of Silbert

Gemini CEO Cameron Winklevoss demanded the removal of Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert in an open letter, escalating an ongoing spat over the frozen funds of the exchange’s Earn users. &...

Coinbase shares dip in pre-market following layoff announcement

Coinbase shares dipped during pre-market trading following the firm’s decision to cut 950 staff. Shares in the crypto exchange fell 3.1% in the early session, trading around $37 by 8 a.m.,...

Coinbase to cut 20% of staff in latest round of layoffs

Coinbase has implemented another round of layoffs, affecting 950 employees and reducing its operating expenses by 25%. After examining the firm’s prospects for 2023, Coinbase CEO Brian Arm...

Huobi Korea to become an independent entity, breaking ties with Huobi Global

The Huobi South Korean subsidiary, Huobi Korea, is set to operate as an individual entity after cutting its ties with Huobi Global, according to a report from Korean news outlet News1.  Leon Lin, the ...

Prosecutors investigate former FTX executive Nishad Singh: Bloomberg

Federal prosecutors are probing whether former FTX Director of Engineering Nishad Singh played any role in trading schemes that resulted in the illicit use of customers’ funds, Bloomberg first r...

BlockFi said CEO cashed out nearly $10 million as FTX loan stabilized clients

Bankrupt crypto lender BlockFi said its CEO cashed out close to $10 million from the platform to pay taxes last year as FTX provided about $15 million in payments to certain insider accounts as part o...

Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Stock Is Breaking Out

Warren Buffett’s investments are closely followed, even though he’s not the sole decision maker at Berkshire Hathaway  (BRK.A) – Get Free Report  (BRK.B) – Get Free Report. For its part, B...

CFTC files its own case against Mango Markets exploiter

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is suing Avraham Eisenberg, aka Mango Avi, over alleged manipulation of swaps on Mango Markets, a decentralized exchange on the Solana blockchain.  The n...

Ripple’s XRP leads CoinShares inflows in otherwise down week

Ripple’s XRP saw inflows at CoinShares in the first week of the year as investors fled bitcoin and ether. About $3 million was added in XRP, representing 9% of CoinShares’s assets un...

Two Yuga Labs leaders to be deposed amidst the Ryder Ripps legal saga

The legal saga continues for Yuga Labs, the creator of the hit NFT project Bored Ape Yacht club, and NFT artist Ryder Ripps.  A federal court in California ruled that two of Yuga Labs’s fo...

Bitcoin over $17,000 pushes miners higher

Bitcoin mining stocks jumped as the cryptocurrency rallied above $17,000. Crypto-related stocks and traditional markets were also higher. Bitfarms rose by 32%, while Marathon gained 24% and Riot...

Bitcoin blasts through $17,000 amid wider market rally

Bitcoin blasted past $17,000 amid a wider market rally that sent crypto-related stocks and traditional markets higher.  The biggest cryptocurrency increased 1.8% in the past 24 hours to  $17,260...

ADA Enjoys 20% Rally Breaking Months Long Downtrend

– Advertisement – ADA looks set for a bullish reversal after breaking key resistance. Cardano’s ADA has rallied by over 20% in the last 24 hours. It is the highest gainer amongst the top 1...

SHIB Rival BONK Up 607% in One Week While Breaking Major Milestones

Gamza Khanzadaev Bonk Inu token’s key indicators booming after BONK soared 600% in last 7 days Disclaimer: The opinion expressed here is not investment advice – it is provided for informational ...

Is Shiba Inu (SHIB) Really Breaking Out?

Arman Shirinyan Token makes numerous attempts to break out, but it does not seem like it will in foreseeable future The price performance of Shiba Inu we witnessed at the beginning of the year was sur...

4 Gold Stocks Breaking Upward To New 6-Month Highs

gold getty The reason, historically, that gold and gold stocks begin to go higher is fear. If there’s enough fear in world markets, it’s the precious metal that tends to find buyers. It might be fear ...

US authorities request information from hedge funds about Binance: WaPo

U.S. authorities are requesting information from investment firms on cryptocurrency exchange Binance, according to a report from the Washington Post.   As per the report, the U.S. attorney’s office fo...

Bitcoin futures activity fell off cliff in December

Bitcoin futures trading plummeted as 2022 came to a close.  Bitcoin futures volumes were just $386.6 billion in December, according to The Block’s data. Volumes were down 39% month-on-mont...

Bitcoin, crypto prices inch higher as Silvergate woes worsen

Crypto prices rose over the past week as equities fell on a plethora of negative news. Bitcoin was changing hands for $16,910 at 7:30 a.m. EST, according to data via TradingView. The leading cry...

Tori Ortiz On The Metaverse, Breaking Barriers For Latine Athletes & Influencers

OSU Track & Field star Tori Ortiz is inspiring the Latine community on the track and in the … [+] Metaverse with a new partnership. Courtesy of Pitchfork Okhaloma State University Track Tori...

Chinese Researchers Claim Success in Breaking RSA Encryption With Quantum Computer, Experts Debate Veracity of Discovery – Bitcoin News

According to reports circulating on the web, 24 Chinese researchers have reportedly succeeded in breaking RSA encryption using a quantum computer. This would be a significant achievement, as RSA encry...

FTX fraud victims invited to come forward by US officials

The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York invited victims of the FTX collapse to come forward on a website that went live earlier today. An email address through whi...

Bitcoin, ether steady, as crypto stocks continue downtrend with Silvergate shedding 10%

Bitcoin and ether traded steady on Friday, while altcoins dipped and memecoins surrendered gains. Losses for crypto-related stocks continued as Silvergate plunged 10%.   Bitcoin was trading arou...

Wallet associated with Justin Sun moves $100 million to Huobi

A wallet associated with Tron founder Justin Sun moved $100 million of stablecoins to crypto exchange Huobi. Two transactions took place at 11:10 a.m. UTC, moving $50 million each of USDC and USDT, as...

Balancer warns $6.3 million of funds at risk, urges LPs to remove liquidity

Decentralized exchange Balancer warned its liquidity providers to withdraw funds from five pools where $6.3 million of funds are at risk. This appears to be part of a larger potential exploit or...

Mt. Gox first repayments pushed back to September

The timeline for Mt. Gox financial details registrations and repayments has been pushed back by two months. The first tranche of repayments from Mt. Gox has been moved to Sept. 30 from July 31, ...

Mutant Ape Planet founder allegedly defrauded customers of $2.9 million

A federal court in Brooklyn charged Aurelien Michel with crimes related to defrauding customers of the NFT project “Mutant Ape Planet” out of $2.9 million.  Michel allegedly promised...