February 2021

Microstrategy Is Not For Microsoft and 20 Crypto Jokes

As bitcoin (BTC) soared over USD 50,000 this week, American politicians engaged in a high-stakes crypto pledge wars, while MicroStrategy raised over USD 1bn for its bitcoin purchases. The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, started “to dabble a bit’’ in bitcoin, even though Microsoft said it has no plan to follow in Tesla’s footsteps. Amongst …

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OKCoin Suspends Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV Trading, New ETFs + More News

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Exchanges news Fiat-to-crypto exchange OKCoin said it will suspend bitcoin cash (BCH) and bitcoin SV (BSV) trading on March 1 because of the platform’s “commitment to protect Bitcoin.” OKCoin CEO Hong Fang [Full …

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Solana Founder On Critical DeFi Challenges and How To Fix Them

Anatoly Yakovenko. Source: A video screenshot, Youtube/Solana High transaction fees and security are the two most pressing challenges in the decentralized finance (DeFi) industry, according to Anatoly Yakovenko, Founder and CEO of blockchain developer Solana (SOL). The fee challenge can be solved “while maintaining satisfactory decentralization” while improving security requires an [Full content at Read …

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BlackRock ‘Dabbles’ In Bitcoin, CBDC Card, Ethereum Futures + More News

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Investing news Rick Rieder, BlackRock’s Chief Investment Officer of Global Fixed Income, told CNBC that the world’s largest asset manager started “to dabble a bit” in bitcoin (BTC), but he did not specify …

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New Bitcoin ETF Attempt, Diem’s Move, Ripple vs. SEC + More News

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Crypto adoption news NYDIG, a Stone Ridge-run subsidiary firm that provides crypto services to institutional investors, aims to launch a Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), per a filing with the US Securities and [Full …

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MicroStrategy Makes another Bitcoin Move, HK ‘on Tenterhooks’ + More News

Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Crypto adoption news Some 100 people have already applied for Bitcoin (BTC) blockchain data-related roles at the BTC-keen American software firm MicroStrategy after the company posted vacancies for analyst and [Full content at …

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A Wave of Giants Rushing to Invest in Bitcoin Could Derail the Stock Market

Gavin Brown, Associate Professor in Financial Technology, University of Liverpool. ______ After Tesla announced it has invested USD 1.5bn in bitcoin and expects to start accepting the cryptocurrency as a payment for its electric vehicles in the near future, the bitcoin price went soaring. It went from around USD 39,400 to an all-time high of …

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