- Bitcoin stolen in the $72M Bitfinex hack of 2016 just started moving(news)
(twitter.com) - Miner manufacturer Canaan reports $5.6M loss in Q1 after selling machines at 50% off(news)(investor.canaan-creative.com)
- Bank of Korea reports that central banks plan on launching their own digital currencies (CBDC)(opinion)(news)(m.biz.chosun.com)
- French central bank 'successfully' tests blockchain-based digital euro(news)(banque-france.fr)
- House bill under consideration outlines path to US national blockchain strategy(news)(es.scribd.com)
- Deribit exchange sees record Bitcoin options ‘open interest’ of $1B(news)(analytics.skew.com)
- Grayscale buys 33% of all Bitcoin mined in last 3 months(news)(reddit.com)
- Arizona votes using blockchain in first virtual government convention(news)(blog.voatz.com)
Crypto exchange BitMEX sued for allegedly operating as money launderer in US(news)(es.scribd.com)
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- $230M in Bitcoin withdrawn from exchanges after the halving(news)(twitter.com)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)