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Pantera Capital, one of the first investment firms to focus solely on the cryptocurrency and blockchain sector, has announced a substantial lifetime return of over 10,000% in a recent announcement celebrating the fund’s 5-year anniversary. Announced via Medium on July 27, Pantera Capital’s five-year anniversary celebration offers a retrospective view on the history of the […]

Investment giant VanEck responded publicly to the SEC’s concerns over their pending Bitcoin ETF application — fanning the flames of what may be the commission’s most heated proposal to date. In a letter of response to the SEC’s Staff Letter, New York-based VanEck rejects five of the regulation body’s chief concerns with their proposed futures-based […]

Cryptocurrency enthusiasts worldwide don’t shy from sharing their support for the burgeoning asset class, voicing the inevitable disruption of traditional finance market as the use of cryptocurrencies increase. However, an independent research finding in the U.K. suggests the contrary, concluding only 38% of adults in the United Kingdom “understand cryptocurrencies.” Inflated Community Sentiment As reported […]

Tron’s recent mainnet launch marked its official migration from the Ethereum blockchain. Following its partnership with BitTorrent, Tron’s new blockchain has achieved 2000 transactions per second (TPS). Justin Sun and “The World’s Largest Decentralized Ecosystem” Tron was able to reach speeds of 2000 TPS following its mainnet launch, according to a company blog post. Migrating […]

The public threat of cryptocurrency miners seemingly increases daily.

With crypto miners making up a large portion of total cyberattacks, the rate of cryptocurrency hacking is taking rise. In a policy update released July 26, 2018, Google banned crypto mining applications from its Play Store. Google Bans Crypto Mining on All Fronts Google is taking action to prevent cryptojacking by officially banning cryptocurrency mining […]

With emerging regulation and institutional solutions, Wall Street is slowly adopting cryptocurrencies as a legitimate digital asset class. On July 27, 2018, Nasdaq held a closed-door meeting with traditional exchange and cryptocurrency company executives to discuss the future of the nascent sector. Nasdaq Assembles Crypto Round Table Nasdaq hosted a secret meeting in Chicago with […]

Just days after Mastercard filed a patent to link fiat and cryptocurrency transactions, the payment giant’s CEO lashes out at cryptocurrency — once again describing the asset class as “junk” that should not serve as a medium of value-transfer. As a board member of the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum, President and CEO Ajay Banga argued […]

At the last G20 summit in March 2018, financial leadership from twenty of the world’s most significant economies had wildly divergent opinions about the validity and risk of cryptocurrencies. While some countries feared that official actions by the group would provide more legitimacy than the relatively new currencies deserved, others worried that an unregulated crypto […]

Once plagued by a black market stigma, cryptocurrencies have risen from public uncertainty to global proliferation. Arrested in 2015, an alleged Silk Road drug dealer is now fighting to reclaim his 226 BTC worth over $1.8 million. Murky Regulations, A Fortune on the Line Canadian police laid claim to $1.8 million worth of Bitcoin seized […]