According to Bloomberg, Fidelity Investments is on the verge of buying and selling Bitcoin (BTC). Earlier this year, the firm began a custody service to store Bitcoin, but now it will evolve to trading. Fidelity Investments Embraces Bitcoin Fidelity is one of the largest asset managers in the world. Its newly-formed arm—Fidelity Digital Assets—will be…
Bitfinex has revealed plans of selling its asset LEO, which is estimated to be worth $1 billion. Although this might be seen as a bland move, leading analysts have nonetheless warned that it might hurt Bitcoin. $1 Billion Worth of LEO Tokens In a report last week by NewsBTC, Dovey Wan, the founder of Primitive…
When something becomes mainstream, we have to expect that some people will abuse it in some shape or form. In the case of cryptocurrency, we have seen several crypto scams surface over the past two years. The latest is a Bitcoin scam, announced this week by the NYPD. Here’s what we know. Everything We Know…
Another Fundstrat prediction has emerged. This time there’s no messing about; the firm predicts that Bitcoin will hit $20,000 USD next year. You can bet investors are sitting up. Fundstrat has made calls that have come true in the past, so should we listen this time around? Fundstrat Prediction The most recent prediction the research…
The Wall Street Journal has reported that Facebook is in talks with various e-commerce companies and financial firms to support its crypto payment that is under development. So far Facebook has engaged MasterCard and Visa about the project that is known as Project Libra. Crypto Payment Facebook is expected to commit $1 billion to the…
On May 2, CNBC published an interview with Nikhil Rathi, the CEO of the London Stock Exchange, a 300-year old trading venue. In the interview, Rathi gave hints that the LSE is looking at blockchain technology. Here’s what we know. LSE Interested in Blockchain According to CNBC, Nikhil Rathi, who has been the CEO of…
Crypto theft has greatly reduced this year compared to last year as regulators continue to enhance their scrutiny and the enforcement of anti-money laundering controls. Crypto Theft Could Hit $1 billion Mark Despite being $500 million less than last year, crypto theft could still go well beyond a billion dollars by the end of this…
Last week, news about the Bitfinex and Tether issue surfaced when The New York Attorney General’s office said it received a court order against iFinex, the company behind Bitfinex and Tether. While Bitfinex has issued a response to the claims made by the NYAG, the issue hasn’t gone away. If anything, things are worse. On…
Cryptocurrency-price tracker CoinMarketCap has issued a post urging exchanges to provide mandatory data by June, or else they will be removed from its calculations. The crypto-data source celebrates its 6th birthday today and announced a list of “major initiatives” as part of its celebrations. CoinMarketCap: Data Accountability and Transparency Alliance The site listed five major initiatives that…
Amazon has made it into the blockchain industry, and on April 30, the company announced that its subsidiary Amazon Web Services was launching its Amazon Managed Blockchain (AMB). Hyperleger Fabric & Ethereum Frameworks Amazon Web Services has said that its AMB is designed to allow companies and customers to easily create a blockchain network that…
