SEC Commissioner concerned DeFi favors institutional investors and VCs
SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, who follows crypto Twitter, has warned DeFi it shouldn't simply hope to get lucky in avoiding regulators.
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Huobi follows Binance, FTX, and BitMEX in ‘moving’ to a tax haven
A slew of crypto exchanges have 'moved' headquarters to tax havens around the world in recent years. Now, long-serving Huobi has joined them.
Lightning Network bot hack perfectly demonstrates it’s not Bitcoin
The Lightning Network can help Bitcoin scale, but loads of security and trust trade-offs come with sending funds on this Layer 2 solution.
Don’t be fooled by NYC’s mayor praising Bitcoin — he’s just shilling an ICO
New York City's incoming mayor Eric Adams pandered to Bitcoin fans last week when he said he'd take his first few salaries in BTC.
Taproot is almost here, one of Bitcoin’s most significant upgrades in years
Bitcoin's Taproot is less than two weeks away. Assuming everything goes to plan, the upgrade will boost privacy for everyone on the network.
Jury disagrees with SEC, says crypto is not a security (no, not XRP)
Two Bitcoin mining companies sold tokenized shares that the SEC deemed crypto securities years ago -- but a jury recently said otherwise.
Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group is now a $10B crypto empire
Digital Currency Group is rivalled by only a short list of companies across the ecosystem, solidifying Barry Silbert's crypto kingpin status.
Patreon wants creators to shill their own crypto tokens — because why not
Leading membership platform Patreon has long banned crypto shilling. Now, it wants a slice of the growing social token economy.
FATF says ‘stablecoin’ is just a marketing gimmick in latest crypto guidance
Global money overseer FATF has released its updated guidance on crypto, and it spends more time negging stablecoins than on the Travel Rule.
Bearish Bitcoin ETF could let crypto skeptics short BTC — kinda
Reckon Bitcoin is doomed? Fund manager Direxion wants to offer investors an easy way to gain short exposure and profit from a death spiral.