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First Mover: Crypto Broker Voyager’s Stock Has Doubled This Year, Beating Bitcoin
9.6.2020
Voyager Digital, a publicly traded cryptocurrency brokerage, has doubled its share price this year, beating bitcoin while braving the scrutiny that comes with strict disclosure rules
Blockchain Bites: Coinbase Surveillance, Bitcoin Wargames, CoinMarketCap Drama
8.6.2020
The U.S. military conducted a war game involving bitcoin while Chinese police may have potentially frozen accounts linked to illicit transactions
Blockchain Bites: Why UN and Federal Reserve Experts Think CBDCs Could Kill Commercial Banking
5.6.2020
U.N. and Federal Reserve experts think CBDCs can compete with commercial banks, New York and France enter a regulatory agreement while Europol has Wasabi Wallet concerns
First Mover: Bloomberg’s Pie-in-the-Sky Bitcoin Call Looks Directionally Defensible
5.6.2020
The $20,000 in 2020 prediction may be overly optimistic, but analysts agree bitcoin is likely heading north
Blockchain Bites: Bitmain’s Shakeup, Bitcoin’s Resilience and Ethereum’s Anonymity
4.6.2020
Bitmain's ousted co-founder reportedly retook the company's office building while a protocol update made Bitcoin more resilient to state attacks
Blockchain Bites: Avanti’s Angel Round, Civil’s Closure and a Data Breach
3.6.2020
Ethereum Classic hardforked to become more compatible with Ethereum while a French energy firm is cleared to issue a new ICO
First Mover: ECB Stimulus May Offer Market Hope After Bitcoin Fails (Again) to Break $10K
3.6.2020
After another failure above the $10,000 mark, some bitcoin traders are now looking ahead to this week's European Central Bank meeting, where authorities could commit to an extra €500 billion in money injections – er, asset purchases
Blockchain Bites: Poolin Lending, Square Crypto’s Grant and a Senate Candidate Who Holds Bitcoin
2.6.2020
Square Crypto supports Bitcoin's lightning network development, crypto mining pool Poolin expands lending and ICE is going after the petro dollar's creator
First Mover: BSV Doubles in 2020 as Bitcoin Offshoot Wins Devotees
2.6.2020
The controversial cryptocurrency is winning in the crypto markets this year as developers and investors see its blockchain's technical differences as a good thing
Blockchain Bites: Chase Class Action, 30 Words for Censorship and a Bitcoin Bug
1.6.2020
Chase Bank settled a class action brought by crypto purchasers while a new report shows a flaw in time-locked bitcoin transactions
Crypto Long & Short: The Emergence of Prime Brokers Adds Resilience but Also Risk
1.6.2020
Coinbase, BitGo and Genesis all have strong growth trajectories and balance sheets. But with that stability comes a certain degree of centralization
Blockchain Bites: Magic’s Raise, Compound’s Distribution and Trump’s Twitter War
29.5.2020
In the war between Trump and Twitter, decentralized systems may win
First Mover: Bitcoin Rally Shows Traders Don’t Care That Goldman Hates Their Asset Class
29.5.2020
Traders can also gloat over how much better bitcoin is performing in 2020 than Goldman Sachs shares
Blockchain Bites: BlockTower Reports Returns After Goldman Sachs Denounces Bitcoin
28.5.2020
BlockTower Capital reported 73% returns over the hedge fund's lifetime, a day after Goldman Sachs said cryptos "are not an asset class."
First Mover: Chainlink ‘Marines’ Are HODLing and Here’s Why You Should Care
28.5.2020
Chainlink, the blockchain oracle provider, apparently has not only a devoted group of backers known as "LINK Marines," but a surprisingly committed crew of long-term investors. Here's why
Blockchain Bites: Google Validates Theta, Coinbase and BitGo Eye Crypto Prime Brokerage
27.5.2020
Polkadot launched the blockchain of blockchains while an IMF official said CBDCs could spur financial innovation
First Mover: EOS Has Still to Prove Itself After Spiraling Down This Past Year
27.5.2020
Nearly two years after EOS first launched, the so-called "ethereum killer" has been able to surmount some of the problems that have previously hamstrung it. But is that enough?
Blockchain Bites: Facebook’s Calibra Facelift and Tencent’s ‘New Infrastructure’ Investments
26.5.2020
Facebook's digital wallet subsidiary has rebranded as Novi while a series of bitcoin transactions cast doubt on Craig Wright's claims
First Mover: Bitcoin Could Get a Boost From Central Bank Digital Currencies
26.5.2020
CBDCs might seem to be anathema to the mission statement of bitcoin, but they may prove to be a valuable on-ramp for new investors
Crypto Long & Short: Innovation Cycles, Crypto Venture Funds and Institutional Investors
25.5.2020
With so much attention on institutional involvement in crypto asset markets, we overlook that they are already here through VC investments – less fast-paced, perhaps, but important to keep an eye on for what they reveal about cycles