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As BTC Continues to Soar Finland Wants to Cash in on Bitcoins Seized in 2016
8.1.2021
Finland’s customs officials have revealed plans to sell 1,981 bitcoins that were seized mainly in connection with drug trafficking-related criminal investigations. The majority of the confiscated bitcoins (1,666) are from the Douppikauppa case, the darknet operator who was arrested in 2016....
Urgent plea to prevent auction of $1.6B Bitcoin seized from Silk Road hacker
18.12.2020
Pierre Rochard has made an “urgent” plea to lawmakers to instead create a strategic Bitcoin reserve and fill it with BTC seized by law enforcement
Acclaimed NFT Artist’s Blockchain-Backed Digital Art Auction Raises $3.5 Million
15.12.2020
Blockchain-backed digital art is continuing to make waves and this week an artist who calls himself ‘Beeple’ raised $3.5 million during his latest non-fungible token (NFT) art collection auction. The “Everydays” collection auction included 21 original single edition Beeple...
The ‘12 Days of Zombie Christmas’ to auction NFT holiday horrors for charity
12.12.2020
Ah, Christmas — A time for joy! Merriment! And devouring the brains of the living with an insatiable bloodlust... because let's face it, this is 2020
Stocking Stuffers: Bid on 12 of Crypto’s ‘Most Influential’ NFTs
9.12.2020
Most Influential 2020 features art from Alotta Money, XCopy, Osinachi, Matt Kane, Sarah Zucker, Yonat Vaks and Olive Allen
SuperRare launches timed auction formats for NFT artwork sales
9.12.2020
The addition of auction formats should make buying and selling digital artwork easier, more fun and more profitable
Lithuanian tax service’s first confiscated crypto sale nets $7.6M
24.11.2020
The Lithuanian State Tax Inspectorate exchanged Bitcoin, Ether and Monero for 6.4 million euro
Cointelegraph to auction digital collectibles inspired by famous works of art
18.11.2020
From 'The Last ICO' (pictured) inspired by da Vinci to 'Silent Disco' based on Henri Matisse's 'La Danse', Cointelegraph artists have created unique NFTs for collectors
Some loans on Maker are never liquidated, prompting debt auction overhaul
16.11.2020
Small loans for $100 are uninteresting to liquidators, and they're cheap to stack up
Jointer.io Matches Binance & CZ’s $100 Million Challenge With Early Adopter Fund
9.11.2020
PRESS RELEASE. Changpeng Zhao (CZ) sent shockwaves across the crypto industry in September by announcing a $100 million investment fund devoted to projects building on the Binance Smart Chain (BSC). Now, Jointer.io, the world’s first commercial real estate-backed DeFi auction, is matching...
Crypto art piece sells for $130K at Christie's auction house
8.10.2020
The NFT is "a symbolic expression of Satoshi’s vision, forged out of the very code that lies at the genesis of it all."
Dapper Labs' Flow token auction closes at 4X the price of 'community sale'
7.10.2020
Dapper Labs, the team behind Cryptokitties, has completed a Dutch auction for the native token of their ‘Flow’ blockchain, selling 2% of its entire supply at $0.38 each
Romania set to auction Bitcoin and Ether confiscated in criminal case
2.10.2020
The winning bidder will need to provide the auction house with a crypto address hosted on a registered, compliant trading platform
Bulgarian exchange owner convicted over auction fraud scheme
29.9.2020
The owner of a Bulgarian crypto exchange has been convicted of providing money laundering services to a Eastern European cyber fraud syndicate
Leading Auction House Christie’s Listing Bitcoin Art for the First Time
24.9.2020
The world’s largest auction house, Christie’s, will be presenting Bitcoin artwork for the first time. Block 21 of “Portraits of a Mind,” an art project showcasing the original Bitcoin code by Satoshi Nakamoto, will include a painting and a unique digital non-fungible token....
Christie’s to Auction Bitcoin-Inspired Artwork, Associated Non-Fungible Token
23.9.2020
The artwork titled, ‘Portraits of a Mind’ created by the Robert Alice project is a set of 40 paintings made up of a transcription of the code associated with the Bitcoin blockchain
Investors Make ‘Dutch Auction’ Complaint against Crypto Exchange Upbit
14.9.2020
Investors have made an official complaint to a South Korean financial regulator about crypto exchange Upbit’s so-called “Dutch auction” listing strategy, claiming that recent listings amount to “back-door” initial coin offerings (ICOs).
Per media outlet Paxnet, a group of crypto investors...
Paris Hilton Drew a Cat and it Somehow Sold for $17,000 in ETH
17.8.2020
Paris’ pet is forever immortalized as an NFT
Artist Whose NFT Broke Auction Records ‘Dismissed’ NFTs Initially
6.8.2020
Trevor Jones, the artist who composed Picasso’s Bull — an NFT that sold for a record $55,555 on NIfty — originally thought that NFTs were destined to fail
Tim Draper: Tokenize Masterpieces to Disrupt the Art Auction Duopoly
16.7.2020
Venture capitalist and Bitcoin investor Tim Draper believes that blockchain technology is driving much-needed disruption in the art industry