According to news outlet Bloomberg, Marc Berger, who stepped down from his role at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in January, will join New York-based Simpson Thacher in June. Berger was instrumental in bringing legal action against Ripple on allegations of selling...
Chainlink, the widely-used decentralized oracle network, released its ‘2.0’ whitepaper yesterday in...
The CEO of BlackRock, a firm with $8.6 trillion in assets under management (AUM), told the media the "cryptocurrency might become a great asset class." However, there is "little" interest among institutional investors at the moment. BlackRock's Bitcoin Outlook The managing director and chief investment...
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Yuriy Kovalev, CEO of Zenfuse, a global cryptocurrency trading platform aggregating over 90 exchanges. Yuriy is an experienced developer having previously held roles as a Front-end Developer at Upwork and as Creative Director at China’s first mining pool F2Pool....
The former director of America's Central Intelligence Agency has released a research paper refuting the popular narrative claiming Bitcoin is used for criminal activities. Ex-CIA Director Comes to Bitcoin's Side Michael Morell spent 33 years in the CIA and served as its deputy director from 2010 to 2013. The retired official was commissioned to write an independent report by the Crypto Council for...
Former Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan says India must enable cryptocurrency payments and related services for its citizens on several government-backed applications, as per a blog post over the weekend. He proposed adding cryptocurrencies to...
CryptoSlate recently had the opportunity to chat with Tate Berenbaum, the founder of Verto.exchange, a decentralized trading protocol built on top of Arweave. Arweave describes itself as a new type of storage that backs data with sustainable and perpetual endowments, allowing users and developers to store data forever....
Any of the government's efforts to ban Bitcoin would be “foolish,” said Hester Peirce (aka “Crypto Mom”), a very Bitcoin-friendly commissioner at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), during a MarketWatch virtual conference earlier this week. “I think we were past that point very early on because you’d have to shut...
Global revenue for Ethereum miners broke a new monthly record, surpassing $1 billion dollars in February 2021. For the average Joe, starting up an ETH mine can be a costly process and just a straight-up logistical nightmare....
Satoshi Nakamoto launched Bitcoin in January 2009 during the global financial crisis. The person or group of people who developed the pioneer cryptocurrency left a message in the Genesis Block that hints at the motive for creating the digital asset. The "Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks," reads the timestamp....
Billionaire Changpeng Zhao, the CEO of global cryptocurrency exchange Binance, holds nearly all of his money in various digital assets—and owns no fiat, houses, or cars, he revealed to Bloomberg...
Bitcoin’s (BTC) market capitalization of over $1 trillion is just the beginning of the crypto’s price discovery, Cathie Wood, CEO of asset management company Ark Invest, argued during a virtual conference published yesterday. Wood said: "If we add all of the potential demand relative to the limited supply, we come up with incredible numbers over the long term. We have just...
Norwegian kroner billionaire Øystein Stray Spetalen has invested “heavily” in both Bitcoin (BTC) and local crypto exchange MiraiEx—after lambasting the crypto just last week, Finansavisen reported on Friday. Per the publication, Spetalen has recently bought an undisclosed amount of...
Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, spoke about his quest to take advantage of the NFT world to disrupt businesses. On an episode of The Delfi Podcast, Cuban said: "What are applications that this new technology can turn upside down? so that I can disrupt an industry and make a f*ck load of money… that is the...
Billionaire investor and founder of Bridgewater Associates Ray Dalio warns that there's a "good probability" that governments will move to ban Bitcoin. Bitcoin represents a threat to the monopoly of the supply of money The end of 2020 saw Dalio blast Bitcoin on...
Crypto Briefing, one of the largest independent crypto publications, announced that it is appointing a new CEO, as per a release shared with CryptoSlate. Stepping into the role is Mitchell Moos, the former editor-in-chief of Crypto Briefing. Moos’ role will now be held by Liam Kelly, while former CEO and co- founder Han Kao has stepped down to manage Sanctor Capital, a crypto-focused venture...
The U.S. Fed chairman Jerome Powell said that Bitcoin is a speculative asset like gold and does not see it as a replacement for the American dollar. And certainly not a digital dollar. Fed Not Worried About Bitcoin Powell spoke at the Innovation Summit by the Bank of International Settlements (...
Electric car giant Tesla’s $1.5 billion investment in Bitcoin is less than one-third of the total crypto reserves held by Elon Musk and his companies, Anthony Scaramucci, CEO of investment firm SkyBridge Capital, asserted today. “Elon Musk didn’t stop with Tesla. I understand that SpaceX owns Bitcoin on its balance sheet,” Scaramucci tweeted, adding:...
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