Bitcoin (BTC) trading volume tumbled almost 20% to $8 billion today, and its price continued to move sideways. Can it break out?
The crypto industry is embracing self regulation. It’s time Washington gets on board
In the wake of FTX, PoR is now being voluntarily adopted across the industry. Many of the largest exchanges worldwide, including Kraken, Binance, Bitmex, Derebit, Kucoin, and OKX, now conduct these ...
Crazy crypto-ruling judge shaking up the $1.2 trillion market
Maybe there’s a method to Torres’ madness. In the meantime, the crypto industry will have to live with one of the more bizarre and dangerous court rulings I’ve ever seen in covering finance for ...
‘8 Billion People On-Chain’—Coinbase Exec Issues Global, Game-Changing Prediction Amid XRP-Led Bitcoin, Ethereum And Crypto Price Surge
Coinbase protocols lead Jesse Pollak has predicted almost everyone on Earth will be introduced to the crypto ecosystem by
Yen slides, dollar gains as Bank of Japan is expected to maintain loose policy
The yen dropped against the dollar on Friday after Reuters reported the Bank of Japan (BoJ) is leaning toward keeping its key yield control policy unchanged next week, ahead of a busy week of central ...
Disgruntled Investor Charged With Kidnapping “Crypto King”
On Monday, the Toronto Police Service announced that it had arrested and charged four men for the December kidnapping of Aiden Pleterski, The New York Times reports, a 24-year-old self-described "Crypto King" who headed up a now bankrupt cryptocurrency investment business.
Shrinking Stablecoin Market Is Sending Mixed Signals on Crypto
One of the more head-scratching phenomenas playing out in the digital-asset world is the shrinking of the stablecoin market while most cryptocurrencies are posting outsized gains this year.
Arm’s IPO Task: Convince Investors It’s an AI Company
Arm’s importance to the industry has also been underscored recently by revelations, reported by Bloomberg News and other outlets, that it’s been engaged in pre-IPO talks with a handful of big industry ...
US Couple Accused of Laundering Crypto From Bitfinex Hack Reach Plea Deal
Ilya Lichtenstein and his wife Heather Morgan, both of Manhattan, were initially arrested in February 2022. They are set to appear for a plea hearing on Aug. 3 before U.S. District Judge Colleen ...
Almost 50 Years Into the Crypto Wars, Encryption’s Opponents Are Still Wrong
Attempts by the US and UK to require backdoors in secure messaging apps are a huge step in the wrong direction. Right now, we need more encryption, not less.
The Bank of Japan has been ‘wrong-footed’ in its inflation forecasts, strategist says
Nicholas Smith, Japan strategist at CLSA, says "when you are a country with as much debt as Japan, allowing inflation to get out of control, I think, is particularly dangerous." ...
Japan’s central bank has been ‘wrong footed’ on inflation, analyst says
Japan's core inflation rate has came in at 3.3% in June, its 15th straight month that inflation has stayed above the Bank of Japan's 2% target. The inflation numbers are key to the BOJ's monetary ...
Still ‘too early’ for the Bank of Japan to change policy, says professor
Sayuri Shirai of Keio University discusses Japan's latest inflation numbers and their implications for the Bank of Japan's policy decisions.
Japan’s inflation speeds up as central bank weighs interest rates
Prices in world’s third-largest economy grew 3.3 percent in June amid expectations BOJ will stick to ultra-loose policy.
Japan’s core inflation rate accelerates in June but stays above BOJ’s target
Japan's core consumer inflation stayed well above the central bank's 2% target for the fifteenth consecutive month, rose by 3.3% in June 2023 from a year ago, ...
Japan June exports rise 1.5% year over year, finance ministry data show
TOKYO, July 20 (Reuters) - Japan's exports in June rose 1.5% from a year earlier, Ministry of Finance (MOF) data showed on Thursday. The rise was less than a 2.2% gain expected by 15 economists in a ...