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Goldman Sachs

Goldman Sachs to Enter Crypto Market ‘Soon’ With Custody Play: Source

Ian AllisonJan 15, 2021

Goldman, JPMorgan and Citi are all said to be looking at crypto custody.

XRP

Kraken to Halt XRP Trading for US Residents

Kevin ReynoldsJan 15, 2021

Clients residing outside the U.S. will be unaffected.

Mt. Gox

Mt. Gox Creditors Can Claim 90% of Bitcoin Left in Bankruptcy: Bloomberg

Kevin ReynoldsJan 15, 2021

The agreement is subject to creditor acceptance.

Market Wrap

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Dips to $34.4K as Big-Name DeFi Tokens Trounce ETH

Daniel CawreyJan 15, 2021

Bitcoin may be down now but there is still growing demand for crypto assets, one analyst said.

Polkadot

Some Asian Traders Are Using Polkadot to Predict Bitcoin’s Future

Muyao ShenJan 14, 2021

DOT reached its all-time high of $13.22 just six days after bitcoin’s price reached a new all-time high.

Non-Fungible Tokens

K-Pop Sensation Mamamoo to Mint Digital Collectibles on Polkadot

Muyao ShenJan 16, 2021

The popular K-Pop girl band's parent company RBW will be selling its singers' digital products on the blockchain.

Bitcoin Funds

3iQ’s Canadian Bitcoin Fund Hits C$1B in Market Cap

Tanzeel AkhtarJan 16, 2021

The digital asset manager passed a key milestone this week.

Ethereum

Optimism ‘Soft Launches’ Ethereum Throughput Solution With DeFi’s Synthetix

William FoxleyJan 15, 2021

A potential fix for Ethereum's costly congestion problems.

Podcasts

Crashes, Rallies and Stimulus: A Normal Week for 2021 Bitcoin

Nathaniel WhittemoreJan 16, 2021

The second full business week of January has demonstrated many trends that NLW argues will shape bitcoin and crypto throughout the year.

Podcasts

Crypto, Washington and the Internet Age, With Christopher Giancarlo and Marvin Ammori

Jan 15, 2021

An insiders look at how new, disruptive technology and government interact.

DeFi

MahaDAO’s Algorithmic ‘Valuecoin’ Goes Live on Ethereum

William FoxleyJan 15, 2021

ARTH tries to maintain its value over time compared to other stablecoins that lose value as the dollar is inflated.

Opinion

Money Reimagined: Bitcoin’s Warning for Central Banks

Michael J. CaseyJan 15, 2021

Bitcoin's rising price reflects declining faith in the existing financial system. Will central bankers like Christine Lagarde take notice?

Mortgages

JPMorgan Provides $100M Financing Facility for Blockchain Mortgage Platform Figure

Tanzeel AkhtarJan 15, 2021

The facility covers both conforming and jumbo mortgages – loans in excess of the traditional lending restrictions.

Celsius

Why Celsius Thinks CEL Won’t Receive the Same SEC Treatment as XRP

Nathan DiCamillo Christine LeeJan 15, 2021

In an interview with CoinDesk TV, CEO Alex Mashinsky explained why CEL has drawn recent interest from altcoin investors.

Privacy Coins

Bittrex Won’t Disclose Why It Withdrew Support for Dash, Zcash, Monero

Benjamin PowersJan 15, 2021

As of today, zcash, monero and dash won’t be included among Bittrex’s tradable assets.

Recent

Blockchain Technology

Russian Metals Firm Norilsk Nickel Backs IBM’s Responsible Sourcing Blockchain Pact

Tanzeel Akhtar1 minute ago

The technology is aimed at tracing commodity flows in near real-time and cut paperwork.

SEC

Wireline Settles SAFT Suit With SEC; Peirce Partially Dissents

Danny NelsonYesterday at 9:45 p.m. UTC

Wireline is now barred from distributing the tokens it promised investors in its 2018 SAFT sale.

Podcasts

Will Mayor Suarez’s Miami Be the First Major City to Buy Bitcoin?

Nathaniel WhittemoreYesterday at 8:00 p.m. UTC

The entrepreneurial mayor brings his recruitment of tech talent to the crypto space with the potential of a 1% investment of the city’s reserves into BTC.

Opinion

Fixing Crypto’s Silos

Stephen TseYesterday at 7:58 p.m. UTC

Our fragmented status quo – thousands of tokens, hundreds of dapps – will not work indefinitely without interoperability.

Tether

Blockchain Bites: Coinbase Wants to Crowdsource Asset Listings; What’s Up With Tether’s Bank?

Daniel KuhnJan 15, 2021

Deltec invested some clients' funds in bitcoin, but not Tether's, the bank confirms. So what exactly is backing tether?

Podcasts

Bitcoin News Roundup for Jan. 15, 2021

Jan 15, 2021

With the price of BTC bouncing off $40K and the Fed in no rush to issue its own token, CoinDesk’s Market’s Daily is back with the latest crypto news roundup.

Bitcoin

First Mover: Biden’s $1.9T Plan Shows ‘Blue Wave’ Bitcoiners Saw Coming

Bradley KeounOmkar GodboleSebastian SinclairJan 15, 2021

The Federal Reserve might need to print money to help finance Biden's coronavirus relief proposal, to keep Treasury bond interest rates from climbing.

Financial Advisers

Advisers Allocating Crypto in Clients’ Portfolios Rose 49% Last Year: Survey

Tanzeel AkhtarJan 15, 2021

The number of advisers allocating to crypto in client portfolios rose from 6.3% to 9.4% in 2020.

Bitcoin

Biden’s $1.9T Relief Package Proposal Fails to Stir Bitcoin Market

Omkar GodboleJan 15, 2021

The U.S. dollar's rise on the news may be playing spoilsport to the bitcoin bulls.

Recent

ETPs

Bitcoin ETP Trading at Levels Seen by Top European ETFs: FT

Tanzeel AkhtarJan 15, 2021

Only one major ETF was trading at volumes slightly higher than the BTCetc ETP in the first 11 days of January, says the FT.

Ripple

Ripple Tech to Power New Malaysia-Bangladesh Remittance Corridor

Sebastian SinclairJan 15, 2021

Malaysia's Mobile Money and Bangladesh's bKash will leverage RippleNet for wallet-to-wallet transactions.

Crime

Bitcoin Worth $1.2M Seized From India Hacker

Tanzeel AkhtarJan 15, 2021

"Shreeki" allegedly hacked government portals, bitcoin exchanges and poker sites.

Crime

Liquidators of South African Bitcoin Trading Club Request Greater Probe Powers

Sebastian SinclairJan 15, 2021

Placed under provisional liquidation last month, Mirror Trading had claimed to be able to offer returns of 10% a month using bots to trade clients' bitcoin.