Fidelity Acquires 10% Stake in Bitcoin Mining Firm Hut 8
The giant fund manager Fidelity International holds roughly 10.6% stake in the bitcoin mining company Hut 8. For six years now, Fidelity, the firm that currently manages $300 billion on behalf of its customers, has been mining the cryptocurrency bitcoin. In May 2017, news.Bitcoin.com reported on Fidelity integrating with Coinbase, mining bitcoin, and even accepting the digital asset at the firm’s cafeteria at its headquarters....
Chainlink Token Price Surges, Briefly Breaks Into the Top Ten by Market Cap
The price of Link, the native token of the Chainlink network, soared in 48 hours gaining some 40% in that period. This rally saw the token briefly breaking into the crypto market capitalization top ten. At the time of writing, the token LINK had a market capitalization of nearly $2.6 billion easily beating EOS whose capitalization stood at $2.4 billion. The token, which had its listing in September 2017, started trading at just under...
Abra Crypto App Charged by SEC for Transactions Affecting Thousands of US Stock and ETF Purchases
Abra cryptocurrency app has been charged by two U.S. regulators: the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The company has agreed to cease-and-desist orders as well as fines. The SEC says Abra’s employees “effected thousands of stock and ETF purchases in the U.S. to hedge the contracts.” Abra Crypto App Sanctioned in the US The SEC and CFTC independently...
Bitcoin Difficulty Touches All-Time High, 120 Exahash of Hashpower Remains Strong
The network difficulty for the Bitcoin network spiked over 9.8% on Monday bringing the difficulty to its highest point ever. The record high of 17.35 trillion makes it much harder for bitcoin miners to profit. However, the overall Bitcoin network hashrate has remained consistently above the 120 exahash per second (EH/s) zone. On July 13, 2020, the Bitcoin (BTC) network saw it’s largest difficulty metric ever, as it touched the...
Deposition of Craig Wright’s Wife Shows Little Understanding of Bitcoin Private Keys
According to a court filing on June 30, the Kleiman v. Wright case has postponed the jury trial until October 13 in the Miami Division courthouse. Meanwhile, a deposition stemming from Craig Wright’s wife, Ramona Watts, shows that she has little understanding of how Bitcoin works after being married to the self-proclaimed ‘cryptocurrency inventor’ for years. The Deposition of Craig Wright’s Wife — Ramona...
