In just two days, the U.S. tax filing deadline, April 17th, will be here. Despite this, only a very small fraction of Americans have reported their cryptocurrency holdings. In fact, data released from Credit Karma reveals that fewer than 100 people — out of the most recent 250,000 filers using the tax platform — reported […]
Brazil’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, including Bitcointrade, Mercado Bitcoin, Foxbit, and others, recently joined forces to create a cryptocurrency association whose goal is to defend the interests of cryptocurrency users. The organization, dubbed Associação Brasileira de Criptoeconomia (ABCripto) recently found out other companies created a “rival” association. Headed by fintech firm Atlas Project, other crypto-related companies […]
A couple months after two of the largest cryptocurrency trading exchanges, Bitfinex and GDAX, finally adopted the bitcoin SegWit protocol, transaction fees for the currency are finally back to reasonable levels. Bitfinex, on February 20 2018, announced support for bitcoin deposit and withdrawals using P2SH Segregated Witness (SegWit) addresses while GDAX, on February 23, introduced […]
Cryptocurrencies may soon land the white whale of the investing industry: institutional funds such as pensions and endowments. That’s according to Ari Paul, chief investment officer at cryptocurrency hedge fund BlockTower Capital, who told CNBC that he believes it’s “inevitable” that these institutional investment funds will add cryptoassets to their portfolios — sooner rather than […]
San Francisco, a city with a respected hip-hop scene that has spawned rappers like Too Short and Mac Dre, has produced another star: “Bitcoin rapper” CoinDaddy. The 28-year-old behind CoinDaddy, Arya Bahmanyar, left a career in commercial real estate after he said he made a small fortune in Bitcoin. CoinDaddy: Bitcoin Rapper CoinDaddy makes rap music […]
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A recent back-and-forth between Coinbase and a bitcoin developer shows there’s still a big gap between the industry and the open-source community.
Golem has lumbered in from the wilderness now with its first beta release, the Brass Golem, bringing the notion of Airbnb for computers to life on Ethereum. Also in Ethereum news, Ether Capital seeks to be a steadying and calming force in the Ethereum technology and ICO space. Samsung has now confirmed that it is […]
Coinbase’s new VC arm raises thorny questions about the influence the startup wields across the crypto market and potential conflicts of interest.
One of Germany’s largest stock exchanges has announced today that they will launch a cryptocurrency trading application later this year. Sowa Labs, a subsidiary of Börse Stuttgart, revealed that their application will offer commission-free trading for several of the largest digital currencies by market capitalisation. Prototype of New Crypto Trading App Demoed in Stuttgart The new […]