(Drew Angerer & Joe Raedle/Getty Images News) Who Is Better for Bitcoin, Trump or Biden? In a chaotic year of dueling recriminations and very different visions of the future, the real question of this U.S.presidential election is: Who is better for bitcoin? For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m.Eastern time…
Month: November 2020
Decentralized Exchange Volume Dropped 25% in October
Home » Cryptocurrency News » Cryptocurrency News » Decentralized Exchange Volume Dropped 25% in October Decentralized Exchange Volume Dropped 25% in October November 2, 2020 Nov 2, 2020 at 18:33 UTC Updated Nov 2, 2020 at 19:07 UTC Monthly decentralized exchange volume since Jan.2019 Monthly volume on decentralized exchanges fell for the first time since…
Money Reimagined: Who Are the Real Monsters?
Bitcoin Ethereum News For this special Halloween edition, CoinDesk Executive Editor Marc Hochstein weighs in with a guest column about the spookier aspects of the banking system.It’s a perfect follow-up to last week’s newsletter on the harmful legacy of the U.S.Bank Secrecy Act.Before you dig into it, let me remind you to check out this…
Industry Players Share Spooktacular Stories About Their Horrible Investments
As the gloomy spirit of Halloween has been lurking in the air giving you the perfect excuse to embrace your spooky side, so was BeInCrypto stretching its curious cyber tentacles to leading cryptocurrency investors and traders to trick them out of stories about their most horrific investments. BeInCrypto had the opportunity to ask industry players…
OCC’s Brian Brooks Against Government Issued Digital Dollar – Supports Regulation of Privately Issued Stablecoins
The acting director of the U.S.Office Comptroller of Currency (OCC) Brian Brooks says the creation of the U.S.digital dollar is a terrible one because the government is not good at building things.Instead, Brooks believes tech companies, which already possess the know-how, to be in a better position to issue stable digital currencies.He says the U.S.government…
Opium Raises $3.3M to Make Exotic Crypto Derivatives Available to All
Crypto derivatives exchange Opium has closed a $3.25 million funding round involving investors such as QCP Soteria, Kenetic Capital and Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research. The Amsterdam-based startup allows for users to launch custom and exotic decentralized derivatives that anyone with an internet connection and an Ethereum wallet can access. Founder and CEO Andrey Belyakov told…
New ways to make money: The alternative alternative assets, Brunch – THE BUSINESS TIMES
By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions .Your feedback is important to us Tell us what you think.Email us at In South-east Asia, the gaps in financing for small and mid-sized businesses have led to the rise of startups that use the reach of the Internet to crowdsource loans.Called…
Happy birthday dear Bitcoin: Crypto’s first white paper turns 12
Has it only been a dozen years since Oct.31, 2008, that Satoshi Nakamoto published a modest nine-page paper describing a new online payments system called “Bitcoin?” Depending on where one stands, that pseudonymous white paper — its author(s) remain unidentified — fostered either a fintech revolution or, as some believe , “the greatest scam in…
Atari VCS seeing supply shortages, not expecting full production until early 2021
Here we go again, how many delays have we seen now? This time the Atari VCS team are saying that it’s so popular they don’t have enough components. Reminder: the Atari VCS is a modern-retro hybrid console, that runs a Linux OS and it can have any other operating system of your choice boot up…
Crypto Is Less Scary Than Halloween
It’s October, and if you’re at all like me you’re listening to ghost story podcasts, watching scary movies and jumping whenever things go bump in the night.When I tell people that I work in cryptocurrency, people often ask me questions straight out of a horror movie.Isn’t bitcoin creepy? I understand their confusion: Hollywood often acts…