The giant social media continues to stir controversy even when it’s trying desperately to avoid it. Just a week after Facebook renamed Libra to Diem (meaning “day” in Latin), the company could be facing a lawsuit from a London-based fintech app with the same name. CryptoPotato reported last week that Facebook changed the name of...Read More
MicroStrategy is hodling A LOT of Bitcoin, and it’s coming for more. The corporation just revealed that it’s looking for financing to acquire an additional stash of Bitcoin. The company shared the information in an official announcement on its website on December 7, 2020. According to the Press Release, MicroStrategy would be contemplating a $400...Read More
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz has taken a hard-hitting stance at Libra, Facebook’s cryptocurrency project. After participating in a meeting in which the G7 countries met, in part, to discuss crypto regulation, Mr. Scholz issued a statement in which he called Libra ‘a wolf in sheep’s clothing’. Nonetheless, finance ministers and central bank bosses from...Read More
Following a weekend dip into mid-$18K territory, Bitcoin prices have recovered to top $19K once again and are currently trading just below $19,300. A range-bound channel appears to have formed in this range as the asset fails to top the psychological $20K barrier. It’s highest price as recorded by Tradingview.com was a touch over $19,900...Read More
Hauck & Aufhäuser, one of the oldest German banks is making a play for the emerging cryptocurrency space with the launch of a crypto fund early next year. Commercial banks in the country continue to show a significant appetite for virtual currencies on the back of a firm but a favorable regulatory mandate from government...Read More
Dan Held is among the most popular and influential people within the cryptocurrency industry. Apart from being a vocal bitcoin supporter, he’s also the current Head of Growth of the veteran US exchange Kraken. A position that he described as: “leading our initiatives around efficiently acquiring users and getting them activated.” CryptoPotato had the opportunity...Read More
As some nations still dabble on the idea of launching its own central bank digital currencies, China has doubled-down on testing the digital yuan, and JD.com has agreed to begin testing. According to the Bloomberg report, the fintech affiliate of the e-commerce giant called JD Digits will launch a pilot program by the end of...Read More
While exploring the potential online security threats for the upcoming 2021, the Russian-based multinational cybersecurity company Kaspersky predicted a rise in Bitcoin thefts. Kaspersky researchers also foresee an increase of ransomware threats and more demands to be requested in privacy coins such as Monero instead of BTC. 2021: Bitcoin’s Value Leads To More Bitcoin Theft?...Read More
To say that this week was interesting would be an understatement. It had a little bit of everything. Starting off, towards the beginning of the week, Bitcoin officially surged past its 2017 high and recorded a new all-time high, clocking at almost $20,000 but couldn’t really manage to surge past that point. Naturally, as it...Read More
Barely ten months after the Indian Supreme Court lifted the RBI’s ban on cryptocurrency transactions, fresh reports from yesterday revealed that the country’s tax authority is now keeping a close watch on crypto traders as Bitcoin’s price continues its bullish trend. Taxing Crypto Gains According to local media, the Indian Tax Department is already in...Read More
Joining the tech and financial services bigwigs in the payments revolution, Spotify too is going the crypto way. The Swedish audio streaming and music services giant just put up a job offer for an Associate Director, Payments Strategy & Innovation. The desired candidate will play a key role in ‘navigating the company’s payments rudder’ through...Read More
Distributed database service Bluzelle has released details of its second validator program, Swarm of Duty II. The sequel to the maiden testnet, which ran in July, will provide developers, token-holders, and validators the chance to put Bluzelle through its paces and see what the network is capable of. “Kicking the tires” of blockchain networks has...Read More
From what happened in the last couple of weeks, it appears that the crypto bull market is upon us. Bitcoin has been consistent with its volatility-induced rallies, and this is infusing confidence in investors. So much, so that VIP clients in Kraken’s latest Crypto Sentiment Survey say that BTC will skyrocket to about $36,000 in...Read More
A notorious hackers’ group called The Black Shadow has compromised one of the largest insurance companies in Israel – Shirbit. The attackers have already released sensitive client documents and have demanded a ransom in bitcoin, which could rise to $4 million by the end of the week. Israeli Insurance Company Hacked According to a local...Read More
Visa, a global financial services company and credit card giant, has partnered with Circle Internet Financial, a leading crypto fintech startup, to integrate the latter’s stablecoin. Visa Taps USDC for Digital Payments According to Forbes, on Dec. 2, Visa will be adopting Circle’s USD Coin (USDC) into its credit card platforms. The collaboration between both...Read More
Gary Cohn, a former chief economic advisor to President Donal Trump, who was also the ex-president and COO of investment bank Goldman Sachs, said that bitcoin could fail because it had integrity flaws. Cohn Spells Potential Doom for Bitcoin According to Bloomberg on Dec.1, Cohn stated that Bitcoin’s “integrity flaw” could lead to the failure...Read More
The Australian cryptocurrency exchange, BTC Markets, has inadvertently exposed more than 270,000 emails of its customers. The company apologized for the inconvenience and reassured that all other data, including users’ funds, is safe. BTC Markets Exposes Customers’ Emails A user going by the Twitter handle Stevosxrp.crypto took it to Jack Dorsey’s social media giant and...Read More
The US-based cryptocurrency lending company BlockFi has partnered with the American multinational financial services corporation Visa to bring Bitcoin to the masses. Bloomberg reported that the two US companies will offer a credit card that rewards clients’ purchases with the primary cryptocurrency, instead of traditional options such as cash and airline miles. Dubbed the Bitcoin...Read More
Decentralized marketplace and e-commerce protocol Syscoin has partnered with the stablecoin platform TrustToken. The goal of the collaboration is to speed up payments and to provide further solutions to Ethereum’s blockchain. It also means that the five stablecoins of TrustToken, namely TUSD, TGBP, THKD, TCAD, and TAUD, will run on Syscoin’s blockchain and be available...Read More
NYDIG, the cryptocurrency asset management company, has raised $100 million from a single investor. The firm collected the amount during its newly-announced fund Digital Assets Fund II, after the previous fundraising project, named Digital Assets Fund I. $150M In Just Two Crypto Investment Funds According to officially published documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange...Read More
Principal actors in the PlusToken Ponzi scheme have bagged 11-year prison sentences in China. The scheme managed to defraud investors of billions of dollars in various cryptocurrencies. End of the Road for PlusToken Scammers According to the South China Morning Post on Dec. 1, principal members of the PlusToken scam project were sentenced to 11...Read More
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has extradited a principal member of a fraudulent cryptocurrency mining and trading platform from Panama to the United States. AirBit Club Co-founder to Face Criminal Charges in the U.S. According to an announcement by the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, Audrey Strauss, U.S. authorities...Read More
The leading US-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase assisted in MicroStrategy’s massive purchase of $425 million worth of BTC. The platform pledged to help other large firms diversify their portfolios with bitcoin in the future as well. Coinbase Involved In MicroStrategy’s BTC Purchase The NASDAQ-listed business intelligence firm made the news on two occasions earlier this year...Read More
Facebook shook the world last year after announcing plans to introduce a “single global digital currency” dubbed Libra. However, the social media giant’s efforts were quickly scalded by global regulators as the project received massive blowback. Facebook didn’t give up on its idea. Instead, the company decided to rebrand its two main products. Firstly, the...Read More
Today marks the long-awaited genesis of Phase 0 in the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade roadmap which stretches ahead for the next couple of years. According to the Beacon Chain countdown, there is now less than seven hours to go before the genesis event spawns the first block on the new chain. The Beacon Chain explorer reports...Read More
Chinese Bitcoin mining firm Canaan has recorded a loss in yet another quarter but is showing positive signs of a recovery as share price and market capitalization spikes. Following a disappointing initial public offering (IPO) last year and declining inventory sales, the company has seen the balance of power shift considerably to major competitors MicroBT...Read More
Although Bitcoin has recovered from its vigorous price losses during the Thanksgiving massacre, analysts from JPMorgan Chase & Co believe that further declines may still occur. The strategists pointed out that Grayscale, through its Bitcoin Trust, will play a significant role in future BTC price developments. Is Bitcoin To Head Further South? The primary cryptocurrency...Read More
Financial historian and Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, Niall Ferguson, has penned a lengthy piece on Bitcoin which is getting noticed by the crypto community. In it, the former Harvard and Oxford University professor commented on how the traditional naysayers and debunkers have softened their collective stances this year...Read More
Guggenheim Partners is among the largest investment and advisory financial services companies. The Wall Street giant filed a document with the US Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) to enable one of its funds, dubbed the Macro Opportunities Fund, to allocate millions of dollars in bitcoin. According to the filing, the Fund plans to spend 10% of...Read More
Chinese authorities seized around $4 billion worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from the notorious crypto Ponzi group PlusToken. This comes after the Chinese police arrested the core team running the scheme in July. Around $4 Billion Worth Of Bitcoin And Crypto Assets Seized According to CryptoPotato’s previous report on the PlusToken saga, the crypto...Read More
