Coinbase Brokered MicroStrategy’s $425M Bitcoin Purchase, Exchange Says
The revelation is a notable public relations win for Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.
The revelation is a notable public relations win for Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong.
Growing investor interest, central bank money printing and PayPal's entree helped push bitcoin prices above their previous December 2017 record.
The accused, Gutemberg Dos Santos, has been charged in an indictment and was extradited from Panama on Nov. 25.
PLUS: Anonymous developers have forked a seemingly dead project to launch DeFi’s latest stablecoin.
A joint Saudi and UAE CBDC pilot found that a distributed payment system offers “significant improvement over centralized payment systems.”
It is its first such sale of MoneyGram stock since the startup invested in the remittance giant in 2019.
The community vote was an exercise in decentralized governance for a protocol not unfamiliar with meeting community demands.
The NYT critique of Coinbase’s internal diversity policies quotes former employees who complain of “racist or discriminatory” treatment.
Cryptocurrencies worth billions of dollars have been seized during the police crackdown on the PlusToken Ponzi scheme in China.
Libra might eventually get off the ground as early as January albeit in a more limited format.
The cryptocurrency exchange is reopening withdrawals five weeks after services were suspended due to a missing key holder.
Former CFTC Chair Gary Gensler, who's leading Joe Biden's financial oversight team, may be tapped as Deputy Treasury Secretary.
Galaxy Digital's institutional bitcoin fund raised an average of $1.6 million from its 33 unnamed investors.
Coinbase has also changed the way it will alert clients to relevant tax information.
Bhavsar joins the Libra Association after 25 years in public- and private-sector banking regulation roles.
Cash App will make the DIY tax-prep software available for free to its 30 million monthly users.
A poorly managed mining farm in St. Petersburg, Russia, set an apartment on fire and injured the operator, according to a report.
Instead of the troublesome 1099-K form, Coinbase will send the 1099-MISC to users of its interest-bearing products. Regular traders may not receive any forms at all.
Coinbase plans to suspend all margin trading contracts effective tomorrow, and will end the service entirely by next month.
A subsidiary of SBI Holdings said it's launched a service allowing users to ‘lend’ bitcoin to the firm and earn an interest at the rate of 1% annually in return.
Pickle Finance was recently hit by an exploit in which $19.7 million in DAI was lost.
Janet Yellen wasn’t a fan of bitcoin when she ran the Fed. Her views as Treasury Secretary may shape crypto regulation over the next four years.
More than 500,000 ETH have been locked into Ethereum 2.0's deposit contract, kick-starting the network's major, multi-year development phase.
The regulated Swiss bank said it is working on developing a standard for cryptocurrency payments between members of the OpenVASP association.
The smart contract required for triggering Ethereum 2.0 has enough funds to begin activation of its most ambitious upgrade yet.
For the second year in a row, the IRS is telling crypto investors they under-reported crypto gains. But it may be a false alarm again.
Former Fed Chair Janet Yellen is expected to be tapped to run the Treasury Department, where she would oversee federal agencies that impact crypto.
The U.S. government uses USDC to bypass Venezuelan blockades. Chainalaysis eyes a $100 million raise. BTC is less volatile than 22% of S&P500 stocks, VanEck finds.
The "Big Four" Chinese bank has suspended the listing of a $3 billion bond issuance that was intended to be tradable for bitcoin and U.S. dollars.
PayPal’s recent leap into the crypto market is helping to drive the current bitcoin rally, according to Pantera Capital.