Bitcoin mining stocks tracked by The Block were mostly higher on Monday, with 18 gaining and one declining. Bitcoin rose 15.1% to $24,230 by market close. © 2023 The Block Crypto, Inc. All...
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Marathon Digital says it has access to funds held at Signature Bank
Marathon Digital said it has access to $142 million in cash deposits held by Signature Bank, which was closed by state regulators on Sunday. The company said in a statement it has access to the...
BCB Group pauses US dollar payments pilot after Signature Bank closure
BCB Group, a London-based provider of payment services and business accounts for crypto firms, halted a planned U.S. dollar payments program after regulators shut down Signature Bank earlier today. &#...
USDC and DAI remain at about $0.90 following Circle’s disclosure of funds at SVB
The fallout from the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank spread overnight to the USDC stablecoin, which lost its peg to the U.S. dollar and dropped as low as $0.88. Following Circle’s disclosu...
Coinbase halts conversion feature between U.S. dollars and USDC
Coinbase said Friday evening that it halted support for conversions between U.S. dollars and stablecoin USDC. “We are temporarily pausing USDC:USD conversions over the weekend while banks ...
Circle says $3.3 billion of USDC reserves are with Silicon Valley Bank
Circle, the crypto payments firm behind stablecoin USDC, confirmed late Friday evening that $3.3 billion of the cash backing its coin remain with Silicon Valley Bank. Circle, which had early tw...
Bakkt’s Q4 earnings dragged down by goodwill impairment charge of $272 million
Bakkt reported an increase in revenue and expenses in the fourth quarter, driven by another large impairment charge. Revenue came in at $15.6 million, below FactSet estimates of $16 million, but...
Coinbase Ventures, Brevan Howard among early backers of compliant DEX Mauve
Violet, which offers compliance and identity infrastructure for decentralized finance, launched its compliance-focused decentralized exchange, Mauve. Coinbase Ventures and Brevan Howard joined t...
Grayscale’s Sonnenshein left ‘encouraged’ after hearing in SEC case
Grayscale Chief Executive Officer Michael Sonnenshein is optimistic following a hearing over the Securities and Exchange Commission’s rejection of his firm’s application for a spot bitcoin...
Block solicits feedback for bitcoin ‘mining development kit’
Jack Dorsey’s Block is soliciting developer feedback for what it calls a bitcoin “mining development kit,” which it says could unleash further innovation in the Bitcoin mining space ...
Grayscale products buoyed following oral arguments in case against the SEC
Grayscale had its day in court, and now the asset manager — and investors in its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust — must await the ruling, which could take three to six months. The asset manager brought...
Crypto derivatives on the CME reach new milestones amid regulatory uncertainty
Bitcoin and ether derivatives trading volumes in dollar terms continued to climb higher in February. Futures and options trading volume for bitcoin rose by about 13%, and ether’s volumes ...
Paxos survey shows 75% of respondents ‘confident’ in the future of crypto
A recent Paxos survey shows enthusiasm for cryptocurrency in the U.S. despite a volatile year for the burgeoning asset class. Of 5,000 U.S.-based working-age adults surveyed, 75% remain “...
FTX sues Grayscale and DCG, citing ‘exorbitant’ fees
Collapsed crypto exchange FTX filed a lawsuit against Grayscale Investment, citing mismanagement of the firm as evidence that it was in violation of Trust agreements. The FTX debtors also filed ...
Silvergate short seller predicts crypto bank’s demise within a week
Marc Cohodes spent part of his Friday afternoon playing the conquering victor. The veteran short seller posted pictures of a seemingly deserted Silvergate office on Twitter, while telling The Bl...
Figment Capital seeks $50 million for second venture fund: source
Published 30 minutes earlier on Figment Capital, a crypto investment firm and a spin-off of staking infrastructure provider Figment, is launching its second fund. The firm, spun out of Figment I...
Conflux raises $10 million from DWF Labs in token round
Conflux, a Layer 1 blockchain developer, raised $10 million from DWF Labs. The investment will help Conflux expand its technology and grow its user base, DWF Labs said Wednesday. Conflux co-foun...
Bitcoin mining report: Feb. 28
Bitcoin mining stocks tracked by The Block were mostly higher on Tuesday, with 12 gaining and the other seven declining. Bitcoin fell 0.6% to $23,215 by market close. Here is a look at how the individ...
Bitcoin miner Marathon cancels Q4 earnings call over accounting corrections
Bitcoin miner Marathon Digital canceled its fourth-quarter earnings call scheduled for Tuesday after the U.S. close. The miner postponed the release of its fourth-quarter and 2022 full-year resu...
Bitcoin miner Marathon expected to see revenue triple in Q4
Marathon is expected to post triple the revenue it brought in during the third quarter for its fourth-quarter earnings after the U.S. close today. The miner is expected to report $38.4 million i...
Cumberland Labs backed Hashnote launches regulated DeFi platform
Deals • February 28, 2023, 9:00AM EST A regulated decentralized finance (DeFi) platform for institutions, Hashnote, launched after a $5 million incubation with early stage blockchain investor Cumberla...
Bitcoin mining report: Feb. 27
Bitcoin mining stocks tracked by The Block were mixed on Monday, with eight gaining and the other 11 declining. Bitcoin fell 1.3% to $23,326 by market close. © 2023 The Block Crypto, Inc. All Rights R...
Binance bites back against Forbes report claiming transfer of $1.8 billion in client collateral
Binance denied using client assets without consent after a Forbes report said the crypto exchange moved “$1.8 billion of collateral meant to back its customers’ stablecoins.” Forbes ...
Mining difficulty up 9.95% with more machines coming online amid recent rally
Bitcoin’s mining difficulty has increased by 9.95% after the latest adjustment, according to an update posted Friday on BTC.com. More machines have been coming online, likely due in part t...
Bitcoin mining report: Feb. 24
Bitcoin mining stocks tracked by The Block were mostly lower on Friday, with a total of 18 companies seeing their share prices decline. Bitcoin fell 3.1% to $23,213 by market close. © 2023 The Block C...
Bitcoin mining report: Feb. 23
Bitcoin mining stocks tracked by The Block were mixed on Thursday, with nine gaining and nine others declining during the day’s trade. Bitcoin rose 0.6% to $23,959 by market close. © 2023 The Bl...
Luxor partners with Southeast Asia mining firm, seeks to attract capital
Bitcoin mining firm Luxor wants to expand its presence in Southeast Asia by partnering with local mining service provider Cryptodrilling. The company will be integrating Luxor’s software, ...
Markets trade down after Fed chair’s comments, Grayscale recovers amid hearing
Crypto markets whipsawed throughout the day after U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell’s delivered testimony to Congress. Bitcoin was trading around $22,070 by 4:55 p.m. EST, down abou...