Regulatory approval doesn’t mean banks are about to begin providing crypto custody, but it is accelerating a conversation about financial institutions safeguarding bitcoin.
The alleged BTC-e operator stands accused of extortion, aggravated money laundering and conspiracy.
Ethereum’s popularity with DeFi projects has likely led to a triple-digit year-to-date price rise for ether. Bitcoin lags well behind with a 34% gain.
Carlos Ghosn’s son paid approximately 63 bitcoin, now worth $608,000, to the two men who smuggled his father out of Japan last December.
With Coinbase rumored to be considering a share listing, some say a move toward more public ownership could accelerate mainstream crypto adoption.
Banxa plans to leverage custody and settlement infrastructure from exchange platform Zero Hash.
Bitcoin Suisse said some of the funding will go on new product offerings if its banking license applications are successful.
The Czech National Bank’s Tomas Holub said in an interview that central bank digital currencies raise more questions than answers right now.
The Norwegian browser maker has disclosed its crypto wallet user numbers for the first time.
The US Dollar Index struck a 2-year trough as concerns grow that the US economy will be unable to overcome what seems to be the inevitable resurgence of Coronavirus cases.