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- Bitcoin Brokerage River Financial Raises $17M: SEC Filings February 19, 2021River Financial's equity sale comes as the high-end brokerage embarks on a major hiring push.
- Bitcoin Is Now a Trillion-Dollar Asset: Where Do We Go From Here? February 19, 2021The milestone isn’t just psychological, and potentially opens entire new groups of investors who couldn’t participate previously.
- Money Reimagined: Tucker Carlson Is Right About Financial Privacy February 19, 2021Say what you will about the Fox News host, but he deserves credit for highlighting Bank of America’s transaction snooping, writes Marc Hochstein.
- The Business of Art and How NFTs Will Change It, With Nanne Dekking February 19, 2021With big brands like Christie’s auction house and the National Basketball Association getting involved and some tokens already selling for six-figure sums, the question isn't if NFTs will force a very old industry to adopt some very new practices, it's when.
- Why Everyone Wants an Invite to Clubhouse Crypto February 19, 2021The 11-month old audio app is the latest vector for crypto adoption – memes and all. Here's why everyone wants in.
- Bitcoin Is Worth $1T and OKCoin Delists BCH and BSV February 19, 2021Bitcoin, now worth more than most U.S. corporations, first reached "dollar parity" 10 years ago.
- Austrian Regulator Reports Rise in Crypto Fraud February 19, 2021The FMA reports two-thirds of the investment fraud reports filed in 2020 were related to cryptocurrency and digital currency trading products.
- Bitcoin’s Price Surge Accelerates After Passing Milestone of $1T Market Value February 19, 2021The price could go higher, unless traders start taking profits.
- Bitcoin News Roundup for Feb. 19, 2021 February 19, 2021With the market cap of bitcoin breaking above $1T for the first time plus a look at the emerging asset class known as NFTs, CoinDesk’s Market Daily is back with the latest news roundup.
- Ethereum Core Developers Eye Mid-April for ‘Berlin’ Hard Fork February 19, 2021The hard fork will facilitate live swapping Ethereum from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake blockchain.
- MicroStrategy Raises $1.05B in Latest Debt-for-Bitcoin Offering February 19, 2021MicroStrategy's business strategy is to buy as much bitcoin as it possibly can.
- Bitcoin Market Value Tops $1T as Price Passes $53,697 February 19, 2021A year ago, bitcoin's market value was $178 billion.
- First Mover: Bitcoin Meets ‘Torrent’ as Lowly Binance Coin Gets $40B Valuation February 19, 2021Cryptocurrency exchange Binance's in-house BNB tokens have shot to a $40 billion valuation, ranking them third among digital assets behind bitcoin and Ethereum's ether.
- OKCoin Delists Bitcoin Cash, Bitcoin SV to Avoid ‘Misleading’ New Bitcoin Clients February 19, 2021It became a choice between protecting Bitcoin’s open-source ethos or championing free-market fundamentals. In the end, community won out.
- Even Skeptics May Need to Consider Crypto Exposure: WSJ’s Heard on the Street February 19, 2021Cryptocurrency's viability as an investment may not be in its value as an asset but in the way the financial world is evolving because of it.
- A Sudden Loss of Faith in Tether Would Pose Risk to Bitcoin, JPMorgan Says February 19, 2021"If any issues arise that could affect the willingness or ability of both domestic and foreign investors to use USDT, the most likely result would be a severe liquidity shock to the broader cryptocurrency market," the report says.
- Second Canadian Bitcoin ETF Begins Trading on TSX Today February 19, 2021This is the second bitcoin ETF approved to trade in Canada.
- Kiss’ Gene Simmons Buys $300,000 Worth of Cardano February 19, 2021The Kiss bassist and frontman says he believes in Cardano because of its affordability compared with other cryptocurrencies.
- Volvo Owner Geely and Concordium in JV to Offer Blockchain Services, Apps in China February 19, 2021Geely will own 80% of the venture while Concordium will own the rest.
- New Jersey Crime Watchdog Says Crypto ATMs Need More Regulation February 19, 2021State regulation of crypto ATMs is poor and federal laws aren't much better, the commission said in a report.