Chinese lottery bets $14M on Bitcoin mining
As Bitcoin booms, sports gambling crew 500.com is buying $14 million worth of Bitmain miners with company stock.
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Bakkt to IPO, Gemcoin to prison, BTC miners to Washington
Digital asset exchange Bakkt readies for IPO [Protos] Gemcoin fraudster gets 10 years in prison [CoinDesk] Washington state braces for crypto miners [Seattle Times] Chinese gambling crew to start BTC mining [Yahoo] Crypto fund flows down 97% since Christmas [CoinShares]
Crypto funds took profits as Bitcoin hit record high, report
Major crypto funds added just $29 million worth of digital assets last week, down from over $1 billion in the week before Christmas.
Larimer raised $4B to build EOS — now he’s gone
EOS plummeted 30% on Sunday after lead brain and Block.one CTO Daniel Larimer announced he's moving on after four years.
Cryptocurrency exchange Bakkt to IPO at $2.1B
This would value Bakkt about the same as semiconductor stock Xperi.
— MicroStrategy, Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley raises MicroStrategy stake by 450%
Morgan Stanley is now MicroStrategy’s second largest shareholder after asset king BlackRock, which controls 16.5%.
Larimer quits EOS, Bitcoin corrects, MS bets on MicroStrategy
Lead EOS brain Dan Larimer quits [TheBlock] BTC crash sends market below $1T [Messari] HSBC UK reportedly bans crypto [BNN Bloomberg] Morgan Stanley balls deep in MicroStrategy [Bloomberg] US feds ready to seize $16M in BTC [Business Insider]
Ryuk’s Bitcoin ransoms end up on Binance and Huobi, report
The City of New Orleans spent $3 million to recover systems from Ryuk after an employee was phished by a malicious email.
Slot machine giant wants you to bet with Bitcoin
A few smaller casinos already support Bitcoin, but they normally involve special crypto ATMs for converting to fiat before playing.
Bitcoin pumps, ETH moons, miners sell out
BTC price sets 15th record in a month [Protos] ETH enters top 100 assets in the world [Protos] Crypto miners scoop high-end GPUs [Protos] Finland to sell $80M in seized BTC [Protos] Hackers cashing out millions via Binance [BleepingComputer]