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Jim Messina – a former advisor to President Barack Obama – has been making a real name for himself in the world of digital currencies. As his former deputy chief of staff, he is now a heavy crypto lobbyer who’s looking to instill certain guidance and regulations for digital currency exchanges stationed throughout London and the United Kingdom. Jim Messina Brings Crypto and Politics Together Messina is presently a political operative working on the board of...

African cryptocurrency exchange Yellow Card wants to be big. So big, in fact, that after raising a whopping $40 million in a series B funding round, the company says that it’s looking to become the first African crypto “unicorn” the world has ever seen. Yellow Card Wants to Get Huge A unicorn is any company worth approximately $1 billion or more. One of the firms that took part in the series B funding round was Poly Chain Capital, headed by Will Wolf, who as a partner of...

Luke Ryan – the head of content at Coin Jar, a cryptocurrency exchange in Australia – says that the more sports teams seek to gain crypto sponsorships, the more legitimate the space will become. Luke Ryan on Sports and Crypto Coin Jar is one of the first crypto companies in Australia to sponsor a sports team. By collaborating with the Melbourne Demons in May of 2021, it looks like the firm was the first company of its kind to take over an Australian Football League (AFL)...

Winning awards and getting recognition is always nice, and for crypto companies – who rarely receive either one – the situation is even stronger given how miniscule the praise they get can sometimes be. That’s where WealthManagement.com has come into play, and it recently offered a big award to Flourish, a platform that seeks to provide innovative access to digital currencies and related products. Flourish Has Won a Huge Award The award that Flourish received was for...

Not long ago, Live Bitcoin News published an article talking about the world’s first cryptocurrency insider trading case, which occurred at the hands of a former employee of popular digital currency exchange Coinbase. It now looks like that case has reached a new pinnacle. Former Coinbase Employee May Have Conducted Insider Trades The case involves Ishan Wahi, a former product manager for Coinbase. He is accused of receiving private information about what coins the...

Guardian Platform – a leading ERC-20 token firm – is in the process of developing what it’s calling the “Stage 5” project data dashboard. The product is quite unique and ambitious in the sense that it will bring information about all the leading crypto-based projects out there right now to customers through a single point. Guardian Wants to Give Us All the Necessary Crypto Data One of the big things about crypto projects nowadays is that they are often somewhat obscure....

Earlier in the year, Live Bitcoin News reported a major hack on the Axie Infinity network. The company lost more than $600 million in crypto funds, and later analyses suggested the hack had occurred through the efforts of Lazarus, a notorious cybercrime enterprise based in the nuclear state of North Korea. Axie Infinity Comes Out the Winner It appears there is someone above looking out for Axie Infinity as law enforcement agents in the U.S. report having garnered as much...

Bit Panda – a financial technology firm based in Vienna, Austria – has stated that it’s going to be reverting back to the ways of traditional finance (or tradfi) in coming weeks and months and somewhat step away from the cryptocurrency and defi spaces. Bit Panda Wants a More Traditional Route The digital currency arena hasn’t been doing too well as of late. The price of bitcoin, for example, was trading at a new all-time high of about $68,000 per unit in November of last...

A new Celsius-themed Monopoly game is coming out for crypto users to “enjoy,” but the problem is that many people out there don’t seem too thrilled or amused by the product. In fact, this is now getting Celsius a lot more flak than when it decided to file bankruptcy and halt all withdrawals. Celsius Continues to Stoke the Fire We all probably remember playing Monopoly as a kid. The game would often take days, weeks, or even months given how strict you were with the...

As volatility in the crypto market continues, another company has decided to halt all withdrawals as a means of retaining and controlling liquidity. This time, the firm in question is a crypto mining pool provider known as Poolin, and none of the firm’s customers can gain access to their money. Poolin Is Preventing Customers from Accessing Their Money The maneuver has got a lot of crypto traders and analysts worried given that these kinds of steps only lead to more...