Hardware wallets are somewhere in between a paper wallet and a browser-based hot wallet. They’re harder to hack than software, harder to lose than paper, but they’re not infallible. They can be lost or stolen, and users need to be able to trust the device to create their keys properly in the first place. “Air-gapped […]

Bitcoin treasury firm Strategy (MSTR) raised $333.7 million last week through the sale of 3.46 million shares of common stock, according to a Monday filing. The company did not buy or sell any bitcoin during the week ended Aug. 16, leaving its bitcoin reserve unchanged at 840,447 BTC. The holdings were acquired for $63.36 billion […]

Private payment systems on Ethereum can already hide information using cryptographic proofs, but getting those transactions onto the blockchain still takes extra infrastructure, and some designs route users through relayers, outside services that submit the transaction on their behalf. Frame Transactions is one of 66 proposals on the table for Hegotá, expected to follow this […]

Cryptocurrency broker Bits of Gold said personal data belonging to roughly 200,000 customers was stolen by hackers, the company reported. The Tel Aviv, Israel-based company reported the security breach on Sunday, saying a hacker gained unauthorized access to a third-party data analytics network and,gained access to customers’ names, national ID numbers, emails, phone numbers, IP […]

Bitcoin’s BTC$64,123.46 price has been eerily calm for weeks, locked in a narrow range below $65,000. Options, or derivative contracts offering insurance against wild price swings, should be cheap in a market this quiet. They aren’t. That may sound counterintuitive, but it really isn’t, and it matters for traders considering options to hedge against, or […]

Bitcoin BTC$64,341.13 continues to trade in a narrow price band, and two of its biggest corporate believers aren’t blinking. Simon Gerovich, CEO of Metaplanet, and Michael Saylor, executive chairman of Strategy, two of the cryptocurrency’s biggest corporate holders, have doubled down on their argument that BTC’s maximum issuance of 21 million coins beats infinite money […]

Austria’s Financial Market Authority fined Bitpanda GmbH 70,000 euros ($81,150) for breaches of the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets (MiCA) regulation in the regulator’s first penalty over the rules. The FMA said Bitpanda failed to submit a cryptocurrency white paper at least 20 working days before publishing it. The regulator did not identify the cryptocurrency […]

Bitcoin BTC$63,636.04 steadied above $63,000 on Monday, clawing back a fraction of last week’s losses with a 0.8% gain since midnight UTC. Without an obvious catalyst, the largest cryptocurrency appears to be tracking U.S. equities. Nasdaq 100 index futures are up 0.5% to their highest point since July 2. Any positive reading will need to […]

Binance gave Russian authorities customer records later used to charge a Russian IT specialist with financing terrorism over donations to Ukrainian groups, according to a report by Reuters on Monday. The exchange identified Yuri Belenkiy as the source of transfers worth more than $700, Reuters reported, citing law enforcement documents. Binance also allegedly provided his […]

The Federal Reserve’s struggle to manage a soft landing, where inflation falls without triggering a recession or a sharp rise in unemployment, will influence markets this week, with Wednesday’s FOMC minutes offering a closer look at whether the central bank is considering additional interest-rate increases. Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, […]