American global investments company Invesco is planning to launch a pair of crypto-based ETFs in the US that will primarily hold crypto-related equities, according to a recent filing by the US Securities Exchange Commission. The filing states that Invesco wants to launch Invesco Galaxy Blockchain Economy ETF and Invesco Crypto ETF to hold about 85% of their portfolio as crypto-based […]

WazirX, which is one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchanges in India and a subsidiary of Binance is under investigation by the country’s financial-crimes investigative agency for allegedly violating trading rules involving transactions worth around Rs. 2790.74 Crore. The Federal Enforcement Directorate announced the launch of the investigation against WazirX via an official tweet. The crypto exchange has been operating under Binance […]

China is moving forward with its anti-crypto attitude. It has now shut down the social media accounts of several bitcoin and cryptocurrency influencers as a means of stopping people from learning about and investing in digital currencies. China Makes Another Anti-Bitcoin Maneuver China has long had an up-and-down relationship with bitcoin. While the country has always been a hotspot for […]

The prospect of enterprise adoption is one of BSV enterprise blockchain’s most exciting draws. Now, you can’t discuss enterprise business solutions without talking about the “as-a-service” sea change in product delivery, which begs the question: what does blockchain-as-a-service (BaaS) look like? This was the topic of discussion on CoinGeek Zurich’s Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) panel, moderated by Bitcoin Association Founding President Jimmy […]

Texas banks with a national charter are now able to custody cryptocurrencies. According to the Texas Department of Banking, banks are allowed to store digital assets for clients. However, the notice released by the organization explains that financial institutions should follow the necessary protocols to be compliant with the law.  Texas Banks Can Hold Crypto Banks in Texas that are […]

Blockchain media need to stop talking about token prices going to the moon and start talking up use cases if the general public is ever going to take the sector seriously. The final day of the CoinGeek Conference in Zurich featured CoinGeek’s own Chief Bitcoin Historian Kurt Wuckert Jr. address the challenges created by blockchain media coverage. Joining the discussion […]

El Salvador passed a bill making Bitcoin legal tender this week, putting it on equal footing with the country’s official national currency, the U.S dollar. While this was celebrated as a victory for Bitcoin, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has since voiced its concerns with the move. During a press conference on the matter, IMF spokesperson Gerry Rice said: “Adoption […]

While El Salvador adopts Bitcoin as legal tender, one Dutch official blasted the cryptocurrency, calling for an urgent blanket ban. Pieter Hasekamp, director of the Dutch Bureau for Economic Analysis under the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, published an essay entitled “The Netherlands must ban bitcoin.” In line with the essay’s title, Hasekamp lists a wide list of reasons why the […]

If there are two worlds that find themselves constantly connected, it would be the world of blockchain and crypto and the world of social media. Given that cryptocurrency exists mostly in the virtual space, a lot of the community around it operates and interacts online. This can be seen in the countless Telegram groups, Instagram pages, forums, and social media […]