In 2013 a British man accidentally threw away a hard drive that contained 7,500 bitcoin. Today it’d be worth over $350 million, reports CNBC:
His name is James Howells. He’s an IT worker from Wales… He once told NBC News, “It is soul-destroying, to …
The Twitter account of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was “briefly compromised” on Sunday, his office said. Modi’s account — whose handle is @narendramodi — tweeted after the midnight that India had officially adopted bitcoin as a legal tender, prompting suspicions about a hack because of the timing of the announcement and also as New […]
Visa is launching new consulting and advisory services to help its clients navigate the world of cryptocurrencies. CNBC reports: The payments processor said Wednesday its crypto advisory practice, housed within its consulting and analytics division, wi…
ツイッターの最高経営責任者（CEO）だったジャック・ドーシーの退任が、暗号資産のコミュニティに波紋を広げている。ビットコインや暗号技術を支持してきたドーシーが去ったことで、Twitterにおいて仮想通貨などに関連した活動が難しくなるのではないかと不安を感じているのだ。しかし実際のところ、新CEOのパラグ・アグラワルが今後もドーシーと同じようにコミュニティに接していく可能性が、さまざまな事実から浮き彫りになっている。
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The world’s largest card company just doubled down on its bid to capture the crypto market. Visa announced today that it has launched a crypto advisory practice for its clients and partners under its Visa Consulting and Analytics (VCA) arm. The news comes just a few months after Cuy Sheffield, Visa’s head of crypto, declared […]
Stacked, a web-based platform that provides passive investment tools for retail investors interested in crypto, just announced it raised a $35 million Series A co-led by Alameda Research, a crypto trading firm owned by FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Bybit and BitDAO partner Mirana Ventures co-led the round alongside Alameda. Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, DRW Venture […]
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Crypto Briefing: The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services has announced that several cryptocurrency executives will testify at a panel hearing. Jeremy Allaire, CEO of the USD Coin company Circle, is first …
Meta is backing away from its longstanding (if not absolute) ban on cryptocurrency ads. Engadget reports: As CNBC reports, Meta has greatly loosened its ban by expanding the number of regulatory licenses it accepts from three to 27. The crypto landscap…
Illegal miners and mass relocations after a ban on crypto mining in China have overloaded energy grid. From a report: Matthew Heard, a software engineer from San Jose, is worried about his 33 bitcoin mining machines in Kazakhstan. In the past week, the…
