Elon Musk writes: Bitcoin looks solid in comparison to massive currency issuance by govt central banks(opinion)(news)
(mobile.twitter.com)- Visa patents a ‘digital dollar’ where central banks mint digital currency using blockchain(news)
(appft1.uspto.gov) - $230M in Bitcoin withdrawn from exchanges after the halving(news)(twitter.com)
- Inventor of BitLicense receives one and starts Bitcoin fund(news)(forbes.com)
- Vietnam’s government sets up research team to evaluate cryptocurrency related policy(news)(en.vietnamplus.vn)
- Bitcoin’s next block reward halving occurs in less than 50 blocks, or about 8 hours(news)(blockstream.info)
- Google takes down 22 more extensions that were impersonating popular crypto wallets(news)(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
- Swiss crypto broker Bitcoin Suisse is being valued at $280M during its $48M fundraise(news)(files.bitcoinsuisse.ch)
- Paul Tudor Jones buys Bitcoin, cites gold in 1970’s(opinion)(news)(bloomberg.com)
- Bitcoin ATM operator Coinme raises $10M, led by Pantera Capital & Coinstar(news)(geekwire.com)
- Ukraine may begin mining crypto soon through state owned nuclear plant's excess energy(news)(m.facebook.com)
Binance’s ‘exchange-run mining pool’ ranks as Bitcoin’s 11th largest, and plans to be top 10(opinion)(news)(btc.com)- Blockstream launches phase 2 of its ‘Bitcoin space program’(news)(twitter.com)
- Robinhood raises $280M in funding with plans to scale platform(news)(theblockcrypto.com)
- Porsche-backed blockchain startup Gapless, for vehicle management, raises $6M in funding(news)(info.gapless.app)
- Andreessen Horowitz launches $515M blockchain fund(news)(fortune.com)
- Fidelity-Backed Fireblocks, which uses MPC encryption to transfer digital assets, expands with new Asian offices(opinion)(news)(coindesk.com)
- US Transportation Dept. says blockchain can help track and trace commercial drones(news)(rosap.ntl.bts.gov)
- BitMEX to restrict Japan-based users as new crypto law enforced(news)(blog.bitmex.com)
- Bitcoin miner Ebang files $100M IPO with US SEC(news)(sec.gov)
- Netherlands central bank supports a digital Euro(news)(dnb.nl)