Bitcoin (BTC)

Département de la Justice des États-Unis a annoncé hier qu’Ilya Lichtenstein et sa femme Heather Morgan ont plaidé coupable pour le blanchiment de 119 754 bitcoins volés sur la plateforme Bitfinex en 2016. Pendant l’audience, Ilya Lichtenstein a admis être l’auteur du piratage. Au cours des cinq dernières années, environ 25 000 de ces bitcoins ont été transférés du portefeuille détenu par Ilya Lichtenstein pour être vendus. A cette fin,...

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) filed a lawsuit against the trading platform eToro, alleging that its contract for difference (CFD) product could harm investors. That type of monetary tool is a leveraged derivative contract that enables customers to speculate on the prices of equities, commodities, stock market indices, and digital assets.  The platform was among the first in its field to hop on the cryptocurrency bandwagon, allowing trading...

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The American investment platform Robinhood released its financial results for the second quarter, revealing that crypto trading revenue plunged by 18% compared to the Q1 figures. One reason behind the downtrend could be the company’s decision to delist certain digital assets, deemed securities by the US SEC, such as Solana (SOL), Cardano (ADA), and Polygon (MATIC). The Latest Numbers Despite reporting solid overall profits in Q2, Robinhood announced that crypto trading...

Crypto trading platform Bitstamp has introduced an XRP lending service offering a “permanent” 2% yield, shortly after relisting the asset for trading last month. This puts XRP on an already sizable list of coins viable for 2% APY on Bitstamp, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), USD Coin (USDC), and Tether USD (USDT). Permanent Yield On XRP? As explained by Bitstamp in a blog post on Thursday, the company partners with Tesseract for its lending service, which “only lends...

Canada has just finished having its first ever bitcoin conference. Taking place at the Chelsea Hotel in mid-June in downtown Toronto, the event was a huge success and is one of the first of its kind in the Great White North. Canada and Bitcoin… Growing Stronger Together? Canada has had a relatively mixed history with bitcoin and crypto. Between Quadriga CX – which is being labeled as some as the first FTX given the amount of money that’s been lost – and the harsh...

The Ordinals protocol team announced the launch of a non-profit organization, dubbed ‘Open Ordinals Institute,’ to fund its open-source development. The Open Ordinals Institute is a registered 501(c)(3) California-based public charity that will collect donations in Bitcoin to back the protocol’s development by funding its core group of developers. The focus will also be on the creation of user-friendly tools to enable less technically proficient users to create Bitcoin...

Bloomberg ETF analysts have boosted their approval odds for a U.S. Bitcoin (BTC) spot ETF from 50% to 65%, in light of “recent events and new information.” The analysts believe it is most likely that the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will simultaneously approve all recent applications for the product after Grayscale defeats the agency in federal court. The ETF Approval Thesis As published by analysts James Seyffart and Eric Balcunas to Bloomberg Terminal, a flurry...

James Wharton – a former campaign manager to Boris Johnson that’s now leading an education quango – is being questioned over his alleged ties to a crypto lobbying firm. James Wharton Criticized for Ties to Crypto Wharton presently leads an organization known as the Office for Students (OFS). However, he’s also launched a new public affairs company designed to help clients “navigate the complexities” of Westminster. He also provides legal counseling on regulated...

Dr. Ben Zhang – a former banker at JPMorgan and the co-founder of Node Real – believes blockchain and crypto are long-term investments, and he thinks entrepreneurs and startups alike need to get involved now before things really explode. Ben Zhang on How Crypto Should Be Viewed Over the last year or so, the crypto market has been subjected to haphazard conditions that have really caused prices to sink. Bitcoin, for example, was trading 70 percent less at the end...