Libra Co-Creator’s VC Firm Co-Leads $12M Round in ‘Decentralized GitHub’
In retrospect, it was inevitable: A team of blockchain developers has forked GitHub and come up with a system for collaborating on open source software. […]
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No, Bitcoin Is Nothing Like the South Sea Bubble
Every asset that moves fast attracts the B-word. But what the last few decades of research in finance has taught us is that it’s not […]
Chinese Retailer Goes From Bubble Tea to Crypto Mining in Unlikely Pivot
A retailer of specialty teas and baked goods based in Hunan, China is expanding its business into cryptocurrency mining. According to a press release on […]
Coinbase, Readying for Public Listing, Gets $77B Valuation From Nasdaq Private Market
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, which is preparing to trade publicly in the next few months, is being valued at $77 billion, based on trading of the […]
Japan’s SBI Investing ‘Eight-Figure’ Sum in Swiss Crypto Bank Sygnum
SBI Holdings, a Japanese financial services firm, is to lead an ongoing strategic fundraising round for Swiss digital asset bank Sygnum. Sygnum, which holds a […]
Most Finance Chiefs Still Balk at Bitcoin on the Balance Sheet: Survey
Bitcoin’s march onto corporate balance sheets could be hampered by the crypto’s legendary volatility, according to a survey by Gartner released Tuesday that found only […]
Cult Toy Brand Superplastic Launches NFT Collection on Nifty Gateway
Basketball players, pop singers and now high-end vinyl toys – lots of different groups are trying out non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Ethereum as a new […]
Evolve Becomes Second Canadian Issuer to Win Approval for Bitcoin ETF
The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) has approved Canada’s second bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). Evolve’s bitcoin ETF was conditionally approved on Tuesday to trade on the […]
Taking Stock of How Far Crypto Has Come
Eleven years post-Bitcoin, six years post-launch of Ethereum, eight days after that announcement, the first signs of crypto product-market fit are before us. Michael Seibel […]
Here Comes the Virtual Real Estate Boom
I have spent my entire professional career devising novel ways to invest in real estate, and recently I have been spending a lot of time […]