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During a Hedge Fund Association Conference in New York, Christine Sandler from Fidelity Investments said that a good custodian must have geographic diversity and knowledgeable staff. She noted:“To do it really well, you have to have geographic diversity, a staff that understands the underlying technology,”That means that people who can sign the multi-signature transactions across the globe, and knowledgeable of the blockchain trends. She thinks that the custodian wallet providers like...

On the official website of Lukka, users can create personal taxation accounts, and import the history of deals. Exchanges often give users the possibility to export all the operations in a convenient XLS or JSON file. Importing the data to Lukka will allow the user to report directly to the IRS, with Lukka accountant’s brief support. Lukka has CPA.com as their partners.Those guys are a separate entity working in the jurisdiction of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. They...

It has been two years now that Bitcoin price hit its all-time high of $20,000 in December 2017. Since then it has been a tough ride for Bitcoin investors as the world’s largest cryptocurrency lost 80% of its value in 2018.In April 2019, the crypto market along with Bitcoin revived as the BTC price surged from $3500 levels to go above $13,500. This price surge brought some renewed optimism among crypto enthusiasts. However, Bitcoin has been again moving sideways facing downward pressure since...

The Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) have discovered the project that is worth listing as the safe one. The company with a straightforward name “French ICO” aims to help people fund other projects using tokens.The token authors were applying for a visa according to the PACTE law. It prescribes ICO founders to send out a document with a detailed description of their ideas. The doc must contain relevant information, statistics, PR information and such. The information should contain no...

Bitcoin price has jumped back above $7000 gaining over 7% in the last 24 hours. This price jump in Bitcoin is reportedly due to a massive spike in the Bakkt Bitcoin Futures volume. Thus, despite the Bitcoin price volatility, institutional trading for Bitcoin seems on the rise.A Twitter handle dubbed Bakkt Volume Bot has highlighted this rise.∙ Today's volume so far: 6312 BTC ($45.56 million)∙ Last traded price: $7,218∙ Trading day progress: 83%∙ Current daily Bakktarget™: 6994 BTC ($50.48...

Not long ago XRP was a hit ‘per se’. Everybody was talking about it. However, in 2019, we can hear much about XRP once being a great tool for “pumping and dumping” and now is pretty much irrelevant. However, we don’t agree. It went up pretty strongly in July this year but the truth is that it’s fighting in the last few days to have its head above the water. At the time of writing XRP price was down 5.57% to $0,187 that is the lowest in more than two years.Usually, the losses in XRP present...

While it may sound like a marketing gimmick or a play on words, two founders behind blockchain startup Alchemy believe that their two-year-old startup might become the “Microsoft” of blockchain technology. In a series of serendipitous events, the founders Nikil Viswanathan and Joe Lau (who are both Stanford graduates) have been able to raise about $15 million from several investors that include billionaire Charles Schwab, Reid Hoffman who is LinkedIn’s co-founder, Stanford University and...

In what has been seen by many as a travesty of sorts, major cryptocurrency equipment manufacturer Canaan Creative has seen its stock decline sharply in the past 17 out of 21 trading sessions. Sources indicate that Canaan’s stock hasn’t fared well as many would have hoped. Just to remind you, the company at its IPO was valued at $1.3 billion. The company’s stock has lost about 35% of its value this week. Since the late November shares have tumbled indicating that the company wasn’t as valuable...

Circle payments startup announced that it is anchoring its business model primarily to providing stablecoin services. The news comes after the firm sold its over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk to Kraken. Additional executives were leaving as part of that Circle OTC sale deal. These top-ranking individuals leave just weeks after co-CEO Sean Neville said that he would be stepping down.Neville and CEO Jeremy Allaire used a long blog post on December 17 to say that the company would majorly focus...

According to an official blog post published yesterday, Kraken has acquired Circle Trade – Circle’s over-the-counter (OTC) platform. The statement says that Kraken sees Circle Trade as “one of the most recognized OTC desks in crypto” and the team is very excited about the acquisition.The statement also includes further details expected from the acquisition. Firstly, the company expects that the fact that its services would now be expanded and a lot more capable will attract new trading...