Cryptos

Anne Boden, CEO of Starling Bank, speaking at Web Summit 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal.Harry Murphy | Sportsfile for Web Summit via Getty ImagesLONDON — Anne Boden, the CEO of British fintech start-up Starling, is worried about cryptocurrencies.Some digital currency exchanges are "quite dangerous," Boden said, adding the finance industry should…

More than 1,000 people have so far signed up to the pro-Trump cryptocurrency magacoin, including conservative media personalities and Republican figures, the Guardian can reveal.The news comes after poor security configuration in a website associated with magacoin exposed the email addresses, passwords, cryptocurrency wallet addresses and IP…

Online brokerage pioneer Thomas Peterffy told CNBC on Wednesday he's invested in cryptocurrencies, while still expressing skepticism over the long-term future of the digital asset class."Even I myself have put a little bit of money into crypto, because even though chances are, I think, that this is not going to be a viable market, I think that…

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Beleaguered Mirror Trading International (MTI) investors have been told to ignore unsolicited offers from individuals claiming to have the ability to trace and recover their missing bitcoins. This warning from the court-appointed liquidators was made after reports emerged that several MTI investors had received…

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Chairman Gary Peters announced Tuesday on CNN's "New Day" that the bipartisan investigation will seek to better understand how cryptocurrency emboldens cybercriminals and to identify possible policy changes. The probe is part of a series of steps the Michigan Democrat and other lawmakers have…

American fintech giant Mastercard has announced plans to revamp its crypto card program, to enable traditional banks and crypto companies to offer cards to its users for transacting with digital assets.According to the official statement:“Mastercard and its partners will test this new capability to enable more banks and crypto companies to offer…

sponsored On photo left to right: Saif Al Mansouri – CEO TRES OTC DMCC; Ahmed Bin Sulayem – Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of DMCC; Dmitry Krasnogor – Managing Director TRES OTC DMCC; Antony Katin – CEO SIMBA Storage; Alexey Liakhovnenko – CEO TRES Group GmbH. Back in 2020, at the Davos…

You’ve got to hand it to Erik Finman, baby-faced Bitcoin millionaire: The guy’s great at spotting a lucrative scam opportunity from miles away. Finman (which we must assume is a portmanteau of “financial man”) has surveyed the landscape of contemporary America and spotted the piss-yellow twinkle of gold glimmering from the rumpled khaki pockets…

Bank of America may be loosening its stance on bitcoin.Driving the news: Bank of America has approved the trading of cash-settled bitcoin futures for some clients, Coindesk’s Will Canny and Tanzeel Akhtar report.Why it matters: This would be a change in tone from a bank that's historically distanced itself from the cryptocurrency business.…