MicroStrategy Plans $400M Raise; Net Proceeds Will Fund More Bitcoin Buys
MicroStrategy is turning to investors to fund up to $400 million more in bitcoin purchases.
MicroStrategy is turning to investors to fund up to $400 million more in bitcoin purchases.
Proposals for immunity or vaccine passes have resurfaced with promising news about vaccines, but the web standards they’re based on contain flaws.
As bitcoin rallied from $13,400 to over $19,000, a trader who bought the $36,000-strike January expiry call saw a paper profit of more than $4 million.
More money, more participants, more participating banks and merchants – a look inside the latest DC/EP trial in Suzhou.
German Finance Minister Olaf Scholz took aim at the rebranded lDiem and said it would take more than cosmetic changes to smoothen regulatory concerns.
Oon CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ on Monday, Allaire spoke about the regulatory attitudes toward stablecoins and how the incoming administration may treat crypto.
BBVA is poised to enter the cryptocurrency trading and custody space, according to two people familiar with the plans.
Abra is expanding its crypto marketplace to dozens more countries through partnerships with four fiat-to-crypto gateways.
Singapore is funding blockchain R&D. Germany's second-largest stock exchange's crypto app saw $1.21 billion in trading volumes this year. Grayscale is seeing a growing number of "Ethereum-first" institutional buyers.
Blockstack's Stacks tokens could soon no longer be a security in the US and become available to US investors.
The U.S. Treasury Department issued a statement following a virtual call with other G7 members.
MobileCoin, which has been a bit of a white whale since the initial coin offering (ICO) era of 2017, announced a mainnet launch on Monday.
The company acquired nearly 18,000 new ASICs in an all-stock transaction.
SIX will join Swisscom and Sygnum in a new venture aimed to enable Swiss banks to offer digital assets to their customers.
Alexander Vinnik, an alleged BTC-e operator, was found guilty of money laundering in France and sentenced to five years in prison.
Bittrex's tokenized shares can be bought in fractions, rather than whole shares.
This year's rapid price gains are unnerving some investors, but NYDIG's Greg Cipolaro argues that bitcoin's growing network could justify $52K in five years.
Germany’s second-largest stock exchange says its trading app Bison exceeded its expectations this year.
A proposed OCC rule would stop banks from using political criteria in lending. But with depoliticized funding vehicles now available, it's not necessary, says our columnist.
The government-backed foundation is funding research and development of commercial use cases for blockchain technology.
The proof-of-concept issuance of tokenized bonds was carried out on a blockchain platform built by Standard Chartered's fintech investment unit.
All three of Thailand's tax departments reportedly aim to improve tax revenue collection using blockchain technology.
Kaga, Ishikawa Prefecture, is looking at blockchain tech to solve problems in the city, starting with an e-voting system.
A working group wants to create some best practices for decentralized finance in an effort to improve adoption while warding off potential regulations.
Bitcoin may be rooted in blockchain technology, but it's evolved into something much more than code. That's why it's not easy to replicate.
PBOC’s Digital Currency Institute and the HKMA are discussing the technical pilot testing of using e-CNY form making cross-border payments.
Nearly 11% of revenue came from fees, down slightly from October.
"We are seeing a new group of investors who are Ethereum-first and in some cases Ethereum-only," Michael Sonnenshein told Bloomberg.
In this exclusive extract, the author of "The Bitcoin Standard" introduces its sequel, "The Fiat Standard."
The well-known economic historian connects the dots between bitcoin and CBDCs in the COVID-19 money era.