Bitcoin mining startup Bitfury merges with a SPAC to create a US-based company called Cipher Mining, raising $595M at a valuation of $2B

  Techmeme   ·   3 days ago

Sources: PayPal is in talks to buy New York-based Curv, which facilitates secure storage of cryptocurrency

  Techmeme   ·   6 days ago

Bottlepay, which lets users send bitcoin via messages on Twitter, Reddit, and Discord, raises £11M at a post-money valuation of £51M

  Techmeme   ·   2 weeks ago

Mobile blockchain payments startup Celo, which is built on Ethereum, raises $20M from a16z and others, bringing its total raised to $65M

  Techmeme   ·   4 weeks ago

Documents show Binance dropped the defamation lawsuit against Forbes it filed in November 2020, but did not give a reason for the withdrawal

  Techmeme   ·   4 weeks ago

Sources: IBM has drastically downsized its blockchain team after missing revenue targets by 90%; IBM says the unit is "doing well"

  Techmeme   ·   1 month ago

Wintermute, a crypto market maker focused on DeFi and providing liquidity to decentralized exchanges, raises $20M Series B led by Lightspeed Venture Partners

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Maps.me, an offline mobile map for travelers, raises $50M seed led by Alameda Research, aims to launch "yield earning" DeFi tools inside the app

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Ledger offers a 10 bitcoin bounty for details on the hacker who stole info on 272K crypto wallet device owners and says 20K more user records have been exposed

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Amazon Outage Takes Coinbase Down as Bitcoin Price Action Heats Up (Nov. 2020)

  Hacker News   ·   2 months ago

Binance says US users will not be able to deposit or trade XRP beginning January 13, joining Coinbase and several other exchanges in delisting or suspending XRP

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

Coinbase says it will suspend trading of XRP on January 19, 2021, following the SEC's suit against Ripple

  Techmeme   ·   2 months ago

SEC sues Ripple Labs, its CEO Brad Garlinghouse, and Chairman Chris Larsen, alleging they violated federal securities laws in selling XRP to retail consumers

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

How US FinCEN became a honeypot for sensitive personal data, a situation made worse by the banking industry's defensive filing of suspicious activity reports

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

France unveils sweeping know-your-customer rules for cryptocurrency firms operating in and servicing the country and plans more rules on crypto transactions

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Latin American crypto exchange Bitso raises $62M Series B led by QED Investors and Kaszek Ventures, following a $15M Series A in October 2019

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Three Democratic lawmakers introduce a bill that would require stablecoin issuers to obtain a banking charter, approval from the Federal Reserve and FDIC, more

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Libra Association is rebranding to Diem, distancing itself from the initial Facebook-led vision debuted last year, ahead of its expected 2021 stablecoin launch

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Coinbase says it will end margin trading immediately after revised guidance from the CFTC; the feature will be fully offline by the end of December

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Ethereum's "Genesis Day", the first of four migration phases to the Ethereum 2.0 blockchain, has been set for December 1

  Techmeme   ·   3 months ago

Binance sues Forbes Media and two journalists for defamation over a Forbes story in October that alleged Binance had planned to deceive regulators and investors

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

OXIO, which lets big brands offer telco-type services by turning mobile data into a tradeable digital asset using tokens on blockchains, raises $12M Series A

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde says the ECB is now seeking public comments on a potential digital euro

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

Glassnode: Ethereum users paid $57.5M in transaction fees in October, down from September's record of $166.4M, amid a drop in the volume of DeFi transactions

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

SEC increases the limit dictating how much capital companies can raise before registering, a move that could result in a boon for security token offerings

  Techmeme   ·   4 months ago

What Bitcoin’s White Paper Got Right, Wrong and What We Still Don’t Know (2018)

  Hacker News   ·   4 months ago

The Central Bank of the Bahamas has officially launched Sand Dollar, its national digital currency, the first of its kind in the world to be fully deployed

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

Kik and the SEC propose a $5M fine to settle their dispute over a 2017 token sale that raised ~$100M; the settlement still needs approval from a judge

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

DOJ publishes an "enforcement framework" on cryptocurrencies, outlining priorities and strategies for its crypto enforcements

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

5% of Coinbase Employees Take Severance Offer over ‘Apolitical’ Stance

  Hacker News   ·   5 months ago

John McAfee has been arrested in Spain for tax evasion after SEC sues him for allegedly promoting ICOs in 2017, 2018 without disclosing he was paid to do so

  Techmeme   ·   5 months ago

SEC and OCC issue first detailed guidance on cryptocurrencies backed by fiat currencies, saying national banks can provide services to stablecoin issuers in US

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Square announces Cryptocurrency Open Patent Alliance, a non-profit which invites crypto companies to pool and share their patents

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Government of Bermuda announces a pilot program for a digital stimulus token, based on Blockstream's Liquid, which lets users buy essential goods and services

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

Messaging app LINE launches a blockchain platform where developers can tokenize digital assets and run dapps; also a wallet for users to manage digital assets

  Techmeme   ·   6 months ago

ConsenSys acquires JP Morgan Chase's Quorum enterprise blockchain project, while the bank makes a strategic investment in ConsenSys

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Researchers say thousands of ERC-20 tokens, together worth $1B+, implemented flawed smart contracts while some exchanges improperly verify token transactions

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

US says it has seized 300+ "cryptocurrency accounts", around $2M, four websites, and four FB pages used by al-Qaeda, Hamas' military wing, and ISIS

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Coinbase says it will offer fiat loans to US retail customers, backed by as much as 30% of a customer's bitcoin holdings, in 17 states this fall

  Techmeme   ·   7 months ago

Bitcoin Suisse, a Switzerland-based crypto lending and staking services startup, raises $48M Series A at a valuation of around $327M

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

China's Blockchain-based Service Network, set to launch to devs on Aug. 10, integrates with public blockchains Tezos, NEO, Nervos, EOS, IRISnet, and Ethereum

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

Scammers hack prominent cryptocurrency Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

  Hacker News   ·   8 months ago

Brave partners with Gemini exchange to let users buy and sell cryptocurrencies through an in-browser widget and launches a wallet for verified creators

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

Crypto app Abra and partner company Plutus settle charges from SEC and CFTC for $300K after allegedly facilitating unregistered security-based swap transactions

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

In a first, the CENTRE Consortium has blocked an Ethereum address holding $100K USDC stablecoin in response to a law enforcement request

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

Overview of US gov't data on Paycheck Protection Program loans received by 40+ blockchain firms, led by ConsenSys, which allegedly received $5M-$10M in April

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

Researchers expose a flaw in at least three major crypto wallets, Ledger Live, Edge, and Breadwallet, which could be exploited for double-spending users' funds

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

Curv, which is building secure crypto custody management tools, raises $23M Series A from CommerzVentures, Coinbase Ventures, and others

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

Cloud computing blockchain startup Dfinity opens platform to outside devs, debuts a decentralized TikTok-like service, CanCan, written in under 1K lines of code

  Techmeme   ·   8 months ago

Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin

  Hacker News   ·   9 months ago