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The Bakkt Bitcoin futures exchange, owned by the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), has just appointed a new chief executive officer (CEO). According to an official press release, the company’s former Chief Product Officer Mike Blandina, has now been promoted to the role of CEO. Blandina already assumed the position on Friday, Dec 20.The appointment of a new CEO was necessary because the company’s founding CEO Kelly Loeffler had to leave the position after her appointment to the United States...

It’s a good start to the week as Bitcoin and the majority of altcoins have turned green in the crypto market rally. In the last 24-hours, the overall cryptocurrency market added $10 billion.Simultaneously, the BTC price has surged nearly 5% moving above $7600. Bitcoin is currently leading today’s market rally with Ethereum posting under 3% gains. Last week, Bitcoin was struggling to cross $7000 and instead went all down below $6600 levels.However, it quickly managed to cover its lost ground...

Alexander Vinnik is a former BTC-e administrator and fraudster. BTC-e exchange was laundering billions since 2015 and Vinnik’s arrest happened after the U.S. court order. Some facts point that he has connections with the Mt. Gox hack and Russian special service agents.Vinnik Lost FSB Protection in Complicated CaseGreece is preparing for the extradition of Alexander Vinnik to the United States. Local cops arrested him during rest at one of the VIP private resorts. The U.S. officials and a...

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has decided to postpone the Wilshire Phoenix’s Bitcoin ETF proposal. According to a document released by the commission, they will continue putting the proposal under review. By February 26th, 2020, the SEC will approve or disapprove the rule changes that will determine the status of the ETF. This decision essentially puts in limbo the status of the ETF. It also indicates the cold feet that the SEC has towards new Bitcoin and other...

The news recently got a splash because of the Twitter user reporting transaction censorship. Binance Singapore froze his money because he was sending them to a Wasabi Wallet.CZ Answers on Espionage Allegations by Twitter CrowdsChangpeng pointed out that there are lots of comments on Twitter under the post about a frozen payment. It shows that people still do not understand how the exchange regulation works, while its a broad topic. In terms of AML procedures, the exchange is obliged to...

Ripple is ending this year in high class. The company announced on Friday it managed to raise $200 million in Series C funding. This investment presents the last stone in a road marking this the record “Ripple year” regarding its business. It also proves the blockchain technology’s worth in improving global payments and the higher advantage when it comes to the digital asset XRP and the XRP Ledger.As per the official announcement, the Series C was led by the investment company Tetragon and...

It seems that Libra developers are pretty serious when it comes to launching next year. The Libra Association announced it has published its second, 2.0. roadmap for Libra Core, the initial software that supports the planned Libra network. Even though there are many regulatory uncertainties, and there are no concrete dates for an actual launch, Facebook‘s Libra is continuing to build up its community.As per the recent blog post, the project seems to be still operational and already tests its...

On the 24th of September, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives announced an official impeachment inquiry opened against sitting President Donald Trump. The issues against him ranged from obstructing Congress to some foul play in his recent dealings with the president of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky. Even though Trump is yet to be removed from office, the president has now been impeached by the House and reactions have begun to pour in. Interestingly the stock market has...

Brian Armstrong, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, has recently secured a patent for sending Bitcoins via email. Initially filed in March 2015, the patent was finally rewarded this week on Tuesday, December 17.Basically, the patent describes a method for cryptocurrency payments by linking the email addresses to their corresponding wallet addresses. Once the sender makes a request to send crypto payments to an email address, the system automatically sends the desired amount.Note that...

After this week was pretty bearish for Bitcoin, it finally turned its way upwards. Some of the merits go to the crypto derivatives platform ErisX that started with its physically settled Bitcoin futures contracts, launching only the second such product suite in the U.S. However, only after Wednesday it went above the $7,000 mark. At the time of writing, it is trading at $7,179 that came as a welcome change that brought a dash of optimism among traders and analysts.With sentiment going up and...