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Coinbase launches its over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk for its institutional Prime customers today, with plans to integrate delayed settlement and Coinbase Custody. This move will reduce the costs of acquiring cryptocurrency for institutions and help reduce overall market volatility. Over-the-counter trading (OTC) occurs directly between trading parties instead of over an exchange. Many institutions (as […]

Securities Exchange Commission Chair Jay Clayton is reluctant to add digital currency ETFs, including Bitcoin ETFs, over fears of market manipulation, centralization, and custody security. Speaking at Consensus Invest in New York, Clayton said he will not support ETFs for a financial product until there are measures in place to ensure that it is free […]

Two more unscrupulous cryptocurrency scams were eliminated by Texas securities regulators. BitQyck and its bitqy token, and My Crypto Mine and its mining and investment activities, were both fraudulent projects operated to deceive the public and steal funds from investors. The perpetrators behind both scams were caught and prosecuted by The Texas Securities Board Enforcement […]

Ethereum is getting gutted during this market downturn, losing 60 percent of its value in the last three months alone. Despite the nosedive, enigmatic Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has held steadfast. From all-time highs in January, Buterin has lost nearly $470 million in the value of his ETH holdings. That said, he has shown no […]

Elevated Returns, a pioneer of Trophy Real estate Tokenization, has recently announced a partnership with Securitize, a compliance platform, and protocol for issuing and managing digital securities on the blockchain. This partnership will allow Elevated Returns to spur their real estate tokenization program in Southeast Asia through the Securitize technology issuance platform. Elevated Returns recently […]

Beginning Nov. 26, Ohio will begin accepting Bitcoin payments for twenty-three kinds of business taxes. The state will become the first in the United States–and one of the first governments in the world–to accept cryptocurrency. Up until now, there have been concerns that Bitcoin would not become a suitable means for conducting payments, instead, describing […]

Renowned venture capitalist Fred Wilson has said that crypto could go down even more in the short-term. But, investors that remain in the market will likely be rewarded, as was the case in the Dot Com era. In a blog post on Nov. 25, Wilson said: “So while crypto asset prices are down 80-95% in USD […]

Within the last 24 hours, Bitcoin has once again made a dive through a historic price support after dropping 14 percent, puncturing its $4000 support-level and settling at a yearly low of $3800. In the last ten days, BTC has taken a beating, bringing down most of the market. Having experienced its third major drop […]

Companies have only recently begun taking advantage of recent SEC regulations that allow projects to raise funds. The two regulations, Reg. Crowdfunding (C.F.) and Reg. A, allow companies to secure up to $1 million and $50 million. These avenues for fundraising are compliant, cost-effective, and synergistic with ICOs. Disclaimer: I’m not a legal professional, nor […]

Skeptics forecasted it saying the crypto crash was inevitable; die-hard crypto enthusiasts called it fear to monger with a tint of hidden agenda. Skeptics seem to be having the last laugh–for now, at least. Especially after the latest Bitcoin nosedive prompted investors to weigh the asset class with some of history’s most spectacular asset bubbles. […]