El Salvador is delving further into bitcoin and plans to issue sovereign bitcoin bonds, Bloomberg reported. The country, which has already made bitcoin a legal tender, will issue $1 billion in tokenized U.S.-dollar denominated 10-year bonds to pay 6.5% through the Liquid Network, according to...
An unnamed Canadian minor has been charged in a $36 million digital heist that authorities said is the largest-ever bitcoin theft from a lone victim, the San Jose Mercury News reported Thursday (Nov. 18). The investigation was run by the U.S. FBI and Secret Service...
Cash App is moving forward to integrate support for the Taproot Bitcoin upgrade by Dec. 1, an enhancement that enables Taproot to offer developers an expanded toolbox to work with as they continue to build on Bitcoin, Bitcoinmagazine and others reported on Thursday (Nov. 18)....
Australia baseball team the Perth Heat on Tuesday (Nov. 16) partnered with Bitcoin payments company OpenNode in a move to allow the club to accept Bitcoin payments and send Bitcoin payouts to players and staff through the Lightning Network. In addition to paying players and...
The global FinTech startup and stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Financial has launched Circle Ventures, a new project designed to invest in “compelling, early-stage blockchain projects and companies.” The company announced the launch in a news release Tuesday (Nov. 9), saying that the projects and companies...
Lottery.com Inc. announced on Monday (Nov. 8) that it is working on a platform to operate lottery, sports betting, sweepstakes and other forms of online gaming and to enhance the company’s API capabilities. The multi-year project, called Project Nexus, is in the early stages. The...
Sequoia Capital has invested in a $1 million-plus token fundraising round for decentralized finance (DeFi) lending project Parallel that puts the Polkadot-based protocol’s value at $250 million, CoinDesk reported Monday (Nov. 8). Sequoia made its investment less than two weeks after it said it will...
Cost savings for banks using Blockchain technology in cross-border settlements will grow by 3,330% by 2030, according to a new report from Juniper Research. The report, released Monday (Nov. 8) shows those savings rising from $301 million in 2021 to $10 billion in 2030. It...
Artist Beeple, who sold a digital collage at Christie’s for $69 million this spring, plans to sell a 7-foot-tall real-life sculpture named HUMAN ONE on Nov. 9 for about $15 million through Christie’s, according to a Thursday (Oct. 28) report in The Wall Street Journal....
