Cryptocurrency

Key TakeawaysMetaplanet moved 1,473 BTC ($93.82 million) off an exchange on August 12, per Lookonchain.Hut8 followed hours later with 493 BTC ($31.36 million), lifting the total past $125 million.The moves come as Metaplanet’s treasury topped 43,000 BTC and Hut8’s...

It isn’t often that a reporter gets asked to pose as a venture capitalist to fool suspected North Korean IT workers.But in June, I found myself joining a Zoom call as “Aelin Ashriver,” an investor from the fictitious Definitive...

Coinbase has launched futures, options, and perpetuals for professional clients in the United Kingdom, expanding its derivatives offering through its MiFID authorization. The rollout is not for UK retail users. Eligibility is limited to users classified as Professional Clients, which...

Riot Platforms has signed a long-term data center lease agreement tied to Anthropic, giving the Bitcoin miner another route into AI and high-performance computing as miners continue looking beyond block rewards. The company’s filing describes a 20-year lease agreement for...

BlackRock has reduced the in-kind conversion minimum for its iShares Bitcoin Trust from $25 million to $1 million, potentially making the mechanism available to a wider group of institutional participants. The change was disclosed in an updated IBIT filing and...

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A final thoughtThe genuinely interesting thing about sUSDS as collateral is that it lets one dollar do two jobs, earning the Sky Savings Rate while backing a loan. That is a real efficiency, and it is also exactly where people...

A type of digital currency, decentralized digital currency to be precise that uses cryptography for security (to prevent counterfeit,fraud).Although people might confuse digital currency with cryptocurrency now-a-days but we need to understand that Cryptocurrency forms a subset of digital...