The current acting director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, will bid farewell to the governing body in April. His replacement: Michael Mosier, Chainalysis’ former chief technical counsel.  “Director Kenneth A. Blanco today announced several leadership changes impacting the bureau,” said a public statement from FinCEN on Friday, adding: “Director Blanco announced he will depart FinCEN on April […]

S&P 500 futures have risen to a new all time high today as bullishness returns to stock markets following some very positive economic data. Manufacturing last month rose to 64.7, up from 60.8 in February with any figure above 50 suggesting an expansion. Some 916,000 jobs were added last month in the United States, significantly more than the estimated 647,000. […]

Polkadot and Chainlink have announced the release of Chainlink’s Price Feeds as a module, or “pallet” in Polkadot terminology, for the Substrate blockchain framework. The release means that any project building on the Substrate framework — which includes Polkadot and Kusama parachains, as well as independent blockchains — can integrate Chainlink oracles through a simplified library. The announcement comes as […]

Bitcoin Cash has resumed an upward move as price broke the $550 resistance. The bulls did not have it easy in the price tussle. On April 1, the bulls broke the $550 resistance but sellers appeared to push price to the range-bound zone. Following the pullback, the bulls retested the $550 resistance and breached it.   BCH/USD has resumed an upward […]

Japan is set to tighten up cryptocurrency laws by implementing the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) travel rule. According to the Financial Services Agency (FSA), this will help tackle money laundering in the Asian country.  FATF Rule to Be Adopted by 2022 FSA revealed on Wednesday that it would implement the FATF travel rule by April 2022. The regulation to […]

The cryptocurrency space may be helping to spawn its own competitors after a representative of the People’s Bank of China said Bitcoin’s (BTC) recent surge had caused renewed interest in the nation’s digital yuan project. The digital yuan is China’s central bank digital currency, and like all CBDCs its foundational principles are completely antithetical to those of the cryptocurrency space. […]

Crypto analytics provider Messari has compiled a report concluding that the fabled “Coinbase effect” — the popular belief that new token listings on Coinbase tend to outperform launches on other exchanges — is true. But the effect is far from consistent, and after controlling for outliers, it’s not as great as many assume. Messari analyzed the performance of 28 new […]

Bitcoin is one of the most interesting and powerful pieces of mathematical code out there, launched as an open source project by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto. In yet another one of the many ways math and mystery come together in relation to the cryptocurrency, its origins, and the underlying technology, the current peak in recent price action also just so […]