Category : CoinJournal

“The Dogefather”: will SNL send Dogecoin to the moon?

With Elon Musk set to appear on Saturday Night Live this Saturday, DOGE devotees have their sights set on a $1 price target Elon Musk will appear on the American comedy show Saturday Night Live this Saturday, May 8, and yet another DOGE-related tweet...

NYDIG Says BitCoin Arriving at ‘100s’ of Banks This Year

Customers of some US banks will soon be able to buy, hold and sell Bitcoins through accounts NYDIG, a subsidiary of asset manager Stone Ridge, has partnered with Fidelity National Information Services to allow US banks to offer bitcoins in the comin...

Jerry Garcia Digital Art Piece to be Unveiled as NFT

The piece called Gift goes under the hammer today Jerry Garcia Music Arts has partnered with the Aerial platform to release a rare Jerry Garcia digital artwork, “Gift,” on the SuperRare platform. The piece will be available as a non-fungi...

INX Names Alan Silbert as CEO for North America

Cathy Yoon appointed as General Counsel Alan has been with the company since March 2018. He will oversee all business operations and resources in North America. President and co-founder of INX Shy Datika said “Alan departed a career in traditio...

CurrencyWorks Announces Zero-Cost Energy Crypto Mining Platform

The scalable unit will process MSW and generate enough power to run up to 200 cryptocurrency mining machines. CurrencyWorks and NFT have announced that they are advancing their zero-cost energy crypto mining platform. CurrencyWorks’s Zer00 crypto min...

Coin Metrics Completes $15M Series B Round

Castle Island Ventures, Highland Capital Partners, Fidelity Investments, Avon Ventures, Communitas Capital, and Collab+Currency raise stakes in company Coin Metrics has announced that it has raised $15 million in Series B financing. The financing rou...

Bank of England Opts For Status Quo With No Change to Interest Rates or QE

The Bank of England (BoE), which had been expected to taper off bond acquisitions, today announced that bond purchases will continue at a rate of £4.4 billion a week and that interest rates will remain unchanged The Bank will continue with its curre...

Federal Court Rules in Favour of IRS on Crypto User Transactions

A US court has ruled it legal for the Internal Revenue Service to obtain information about crypto users A US federal court in Northern California has ruled in favour of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), allowing the agency to get more details of us...

BetaShares and VanEck File Application For Aussie ETF

Aussie ETF manager BetaShares and global investment firm VanEck have both filed for Bitcoin ETFs Two fund management firms, VanEck and BetaShares, have separately filed submissions for an Exchange Traded Fund with the Australian Securities Exchange....

Sotheby’s to Become First Auction House to Accept Cryptocurrency in Artwork Sale

Sotheby’s is to accept Bitcoin or Ether for a sale of a painting by Banksy this month Auction house Sotheby’s announced today that for the first time ever, a piece of art can be bought at one of its auctions using cryptocurrency. Working in partnersh...

Non-Fungible Token (NFT) Market Begins to Stabilise After Turbulent First Quarter

Interest in NFTs shows signs of falling as brick-and-mortar stores begin to reopen NFTs appear to be coming of their early-year highs as several marketplaces report dips in sales in April. One such marketplace, OpenSea, recorded monthly sales of $93....

S&P Dow Jones Now Offers Cryptocurrency Index Series & S&P Bitcoin Index

Indices track the performance of BitCoin and Ether, using Lukka for price information. S&P Dow Jones Indices has officially commenced its digital asset benchmark series. Known as the S&P Digital Market Indices, they measure how digital assets...

“What we’re experiencing is nothing short of a sea change.”

An interview with Prof. J. Wuermeling, Executive Board member of the Deutsche Bundesbank with oversight on Risk Control, Information Technology and Banking Supervision. Interview conducted internally by the Deutsche Bundesbank. This interview has bee...

Economic Woes Fuelling Crypto Adoption in Argentina

Many Argentinians have shifted their investment focus to cryptocurrencies as the economy declines The number of Argentinian crypto users has been on the rise in the last 12 months, as reported by AFP. More and more people in the country are flooding...

Virtual Assets Provider INX Raises About $125 Million

The Gibraltar-based trading platform INX has estimated about $125 million raised in token and equity offering The INX Company, which runs the INX digital trading platform, revealed earlier this week that it was expecting to raise a total sum of about...