Bitcoin News Roundup for April 6, 2020
Ether and BTC are running neck and neck while three major lawsuits deal with the ICO aftermath. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast.
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BIS researchers think COVID-19 may accelerate the adoption of digital payments and sharpen the debate over central bank digital currencies.
The SEC charged a former Texas pastor and his wife for allegedly defrauding hundreds of investors through an alkaline water-backed cryptocurrency TeshuaCoin.
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao said his exchange had donated $2.4 million in crypto to buying medical supplies to fight the novel coronavirus outbreak, and plans to donate up to $5 million total.
OneConnect, the fintech wing of Ping An Insurance Group, is building a logistics-tracking blockchain platform with the China Merchants Port Group.
Last month’s bitcoin price crash has prompted manufacturers to sell their mining devices at discounts as steep as 20 percent ahead of the May halving.
A Chinese financial watchdog warned investors of rising risks in crypto investments as the global stock market continues to fluctuate.
Brazil’s major financial regulators have unified their intelligence troves under a blockchain-backed sharing system called PIER.
Ripple engineer Nik Bougalis has proposed a method of shielding transactions on the XRP ledger.
Anchorage, a digital asset custodian targeting institutional clients, has added support for XRP, offering services for all of the top-3 cryptocurrencies.
The U.S. patent office has granted Blockstack intellectual property rights around its single sign-on service for dapps.
Bitfury has dedicated its GPU miners to the Folding@home project, which is studying the novel coronavirus in hopes of developing a vaccine.
The attackers have apparently been targeting Microsoft SQL database servers to mine cryptocurrency for two years.
Tether CTO Paolo Ardoino believes the USDT stablecoin can boost the decentralized finance ecosystem.
Bug bounty platform HackerOne severed ties with Medici Ventures-backed Voatz, the blockchain-based mobile voting app for breach of partnership standards.
U.S. currency in circulation has experienced its largest increase in over 20 years.
A Microsoft patent application details a human-powered crypto mining project by collecting data as people exercise and watch ads.
Singapore-based Bitget has registered with the U.S. Treasury Department as a money services business, the first step to launching operations in the country.
A nominee for a CME director position argued for tokenizing certain shares and building renewable energy sources which could also mine crypto.
Bitwise is hoping to draw a retail market for its Bitwise 10 Index Fund, which it intends to list on a regulated alternative trading system later this year.
EOS creator Block.one has acquired the team behind once-prominent block producer EOS New York, which has now entirely ceased operations.
The bankruptcy trustee overseeing the winding up of crypto exchange QuadrigaCX, will be turning all user information over to the Canada Revenue Agency.
Nicolas Maduro and his crypto supervisor were two of the Venezuelan officials indicted Thursday on claims they used crypto to conceal the profits from drug running.
The Digital Dollar Foundation has tapped a number of former government officials and industry experts as advisors as it looks to design and promote a U.S. CBDC.
The European Commission is calling for future-oriented defense solutions including innovative blockchain concepts.
Brave is in the early stages of building an in-browser trading tool with Binance and Binance America.
Malta’s financial regulator has issued warnings against COINMALEX and Crypto Foxtrades, two websites that falsely claimed they were licensed by the Maltese authority.
Telegram has appealed a court ruling barring it from distributing its gram cryptocurrency.
A judge granted Justin Sun’s motion to compel arbitration in a lawsuit alleging wrongful termination and workplace harassment at the Tron Foundation.