Payments company Strike received a virtual currency license and a money transmitter license (MTL) from the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS), allowing the company to offer its Bitcoin services to residents and businesses in New York. Granted in February, the approvals authorize Zap Solutions, Inc., which does business as Strike, to operate…
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A US Judge has temporarily frozen 70.6 Bitcoin tied to cryptocurrency lending and trading company BlockFills and ordered a full segregated account of customer funds after Dominion Capital accused the company of misappropriating customer assets and commingling funds, according to a court filing. The complaint, filed Feb. 27, alleges that BlockFills unlawfully retained millions of…
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Vancouver, Canada, city staff said Bitcoin cannot be held in municipal reserves and recommended that the city council drop a proposal to create a Bitcoin reserve. City staff, led by Colin Knight, general manager of the Finance and Supply Chain Management Department, “conclusively determined” that Bitcoin (BTC) is not an “allowable investment” under the Vancouver…
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Dubai’s digital asset regulator has instructed entities behind crypto exchange KuCoin to halt unlicensed virtual asset activities in the emirate, warning investors that the platform is not authorized to serve Dubai residents. In a Thursday investor and marketplace alert, the Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) said that Phoenixfin Pte Ltd, MEK Global Limited, Peken Global…
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Bitcoin staged a brief relief rally above $74,000 on Thursday, but it has already petered out as analysts predict a persistent bear market will keep momentum subdued. “Bitcoin is still in a bear market despite the recent rally,” on-chain analytics company CryptoQuant said on Thursday. The platform’s Bull Score Index, a composite indicator that measures…
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Bitcoin is likely to outperform gold on price performance through to 2029 after gold’s strong recent rally, says macroeconomist Lyn Alden. “If I had to bet Bitcoin versus gold over the next two to three years, I would bet Bitcoin,” Alden said on the New Era Finance podcast on Wednesday. “Gun to my head, if…
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Crypto security researchers say the hacker exploited a bug allowing them to mint tokens, before swapping the freely-gained tokens for another tied to Bitcoin. Bitcoin-based decentralized finance platform Solv Protocol says one of its token vaults was exploited for $2.7 million and has offered the attacker a 10% bounty in exchange for returning the stolen…
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US regulators have clarified that tokenized securities will receive the same capital treatment as their traditional counterparts, saying the rules are “technology neutral.” The Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency said on Thursday that they would treat traditional and tokenized securities the same when it…
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Senator Chris Murphy says it’s likely people close to Donald Trump with “inside information” made bets on prediction markets on when the US would strike Iran. US Democratic lawmakers are working on a bill to police prediction markets after raising insider trading concerns over bets made on the timing of Israeli and US strikes on…
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The quantum computing company PsiQuantum is a step closer to its goal of building the world’s first useful quantum computer, breaking ground on the construction of a 1 million-qubit quantum facility, a size that scientists say is powerful enough to crack Bitcoin’s cryptography. PsiQuantum co-founder Peter Shadbolt shared a photo of its Chicago site in…
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