Episode 107 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded live with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Abra Co-Founder & CEO, Bill Barhydt. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, Spoti...
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Crypto’s ‘tribal battles’ will look silly in ten years, says veteran crypto investor
Episode 102 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded at Messari Mainnet 2022 with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and North Island Ventures Managing Partner Travis Scher. Listen below, and subscribe to ...
Flashbots co-founder steps down after disagreements with team over censorship
Stephane Gosselin, co-founder of Flashbots, last month resigned from the maximal extracted value (MEV) service following disagreements with the team, he announced on Twitter. For a diverse and compet...
Greenidge reshuffles executive ranks, expects further losses in Q3
Greenidge Generation is reshuffling its leadership roster. Jeffrey Kirt left his role atop the Bitcoin mining company, with two executives from forestry products company Millar Western replacing him. ...
Mt. Gox creditors need to register with exchanges next year to receive lost crypto
The years-long wait for creditors of the long-defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox may be one step closer to completion, according to a memo. Trustee Nobuaki Kobayashi wrote that Mt. Gox creditors will h...
Kim Kardashian’s SEC settlement could complicate her other crypto case
Kim Kardashian made headlines this week when the Securities and Exchange Commission publicized a fine and settlement with her for allegedly failing to disclose earnings related to her promotion of th...
Greenidge seeks to raise up to $22.8 million in stock offer
“We currently plan to use the net proceeds from this offering, after deducting B. Riley’s commissions and offering expenses payable by us, for general corporate purposes, which may include, amon...
Kristin Smith unpacks the new Blockchain Association PAC
Episode 94 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded at SALT New York 2022 on September 13 with The Block’s Frank Chaparro, and Blockchain Association’s executive director Kristin Smith. Liste...
Celsius Mining claims hosting provider Core Scientific violated bankruptcy terms
Celsius Mining, the mining arm of the bankrupt crypto lender, filed a motion Wednesday against its hosting provider Core Scientific, accusing the company of breaching their agreement and violating ban...
MicroStrategy making new bitcoin play, developing Lightning Network-based Saas platform
MicroStrategy appears to be moving beyond just holding bitcoin as the firm searches for a bitcoin lightning engineer. The software company is looking for an engineer to build a Lightning Network-base...
Senate bill would create legal grace period for crypto exchanges
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) has introduced a bill to create a safe harbor for cryptocurrency exchanges that might otherwise face legal action for listing unregistered securities. According to text of ...
Zach Dexter to head FTX U.S. as the crypto exchange moves to Miami
Zach Dexter will move up from heading FTX’s U.S. derivatives unit to take over the entire operation in the wake of president Brett Harrison’s departure, a person with direct knowledge of t...
This Paradigm-backed project is making Ethereum’s technical underbelly more accessible
Episode 91 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Viktor Bunin, protocol specialist at Coinbase and Stephane Gosselin, MEV boost architect & co-fo...
Robot Ventures taps UMA founder as partner
Pre-seed venture capital investment firm Robot Ventures hired a former Goldman Sachs trader Hart Lambur as a partner, the firm announced on Twitter. Lambur is best known for co-founding crypto projec...
U.S. Department of Defense taps intelligence firm to evaluate crypto threat to national security
The U.S. Department of Defense hired a crypto intelligence firm to review the potential security threat of cryptocurrencies. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, has tasked Inca Digit...
New England Patriots ink sponsorship deal with crypto firm Chain
Crypto firm Chain signed a multi-year deal to be an official blockchain and web3 sponsor for the New England Patriots football team. The company also will sponsor soccer team New England Revolution, G...
Why crypto domain names could evolve into the internet’s first identity system
Episode 88 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded live with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Unstoppable Domains Founder & CEO Matt Gould. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, Spo...
BlockSec detects replay exploit with ETHPoW tokens
The Ethereum proof-of-work blockchain suffered a replay exploit with the attacker getting an extra 200 ETHW tokens after replaying a message from the proof-of-stake chain on ETHPoW, according to a cyb...
Financial stability regulators to meet on digital assets next week
The Financial Stability Oversight Council, chaired by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, will meet Sept. 23 to work on its report regarding regulatory gaps for digital assets and potential risks posed b...
GPU miners left searching for profit post Merge
Miners searching for new blockchains in the wake of Ethereum’s Merge are struggling as intense competition for blocks reduces profitability. With Ethereum’s move away from proof-of-work based GPU mini...
Inside Bakkt’s mission to help banks offer crypto services to retail
Episode 86 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded live with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and Bakkt Chief Product Officer Dan O’Prey. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, Spotify...
Bolt backs off $1.5 billion Wyre deal: Axios
One-click checkout company Bolt backed out of a $1.5 billion dollar acquisition of crypto payment provider Wyre, Axios first reported. When it was announced, it was one of the largest non-SPAC crypto ...
SEC to form a new office for crypto disclosures
The Securities and Exchange Commission will establish a new office for cryptocurrency filings. The office will be within the Division of Corporation Finance, which handles disclosures for publicly tra...
Bessemer Venture Partners unveils $3.85 billion early-stage fund
Bessemer Venture Partners has unveiled a new investment fund worth $3.85 billion for early-stage investments. The fund, the firm’s twelfth, will cut across a broad array of industries, including...
Cardano Foundation and Input Output announce date for vasil upgrade
Cardano’s vasil upgrade will take place on Sept. 22, according to a statement from Input Output (IOHK) on Twitter. The vasil upgrade is designed to increase scalability on the Cardano blockchai...
BlockFi CEO shares lessons learned from liquidating 3AC
Episode 81 of Season 4 of The Scoop was recorded remotely with The Block’s Frank Chaparro and BlockFi Founder & CEO Zac Prince. Listen below, and subscribe to The Scoop on Apple, Spotify, Go...