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100x Group, holding company of embattled crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX's operator HDR Global Trading Limited, has announced the appointment of a new CEO following CFTC charges against the exchange in October, which had triggered the immediate replacement of former CEO Arthur Hayes and CTO Samuel Reed. The new

Following Bitcoin's bi-weekly difficulty adjustment, mining difficulty has increased by 8.87 percent today, sitting at 19.16 T—4.4 percent lower than its difficulty all-time high, which was recorded in October this year. The hash rate is the measure of computational power that is being allocated

At Friday's European Banking Congress, German Finance Minister Olaf Schulz stated that it was essential to make progress in readying Europe's and Germany's banking systems for the digital era, but that such actions did not extend to privately issued cryptocurrencies. "I do not

The world's largest asset manager has taken notice of Bitcoin. Rick Rieder, CIO of Fixed Income at multi-trillion asset manager BlackRock, on Friday spoke about Bitcoin on CNBC's Squawk Box, stating "Bitcoin is here to stay." When asked about Bitcoin's recent price

At the Economics of Payments IX conference in November 2018, European Central Bank (ECB) executive board member Benoît Cœuré described Bitcoin as "the evil spawn of the financial crisis." Cœuré's remarks, in unison with Bank of International Settlements (BIS) general manager Agustín Carstens' statement that

Alex Gladstein is the Chief Strategy Officer of the Human Rights Foundation and an advocate for Bitcoin as a tool to fight surveillance and monetary repression. He has served as Vice President of Strategy for the Oslo Freedom Forum and written about human rights protection for leading media outlets worldwide.

In a report titled "Konzept #19 - What We Must Do to Rebuild" that was published this week, Deutsche Bank listed economic evaluations and proposals to aid global economies hit by the COVID-19 pandemic. Containing sections related to environmentalism, small business protection, and the radical "work from

"This is a lie," was the first thing Stuart Hoegner, General Counsel at Tether, had to say about an article published on Saturday by Bitcoin SV-affiliated publication Coingeek. The cause for Hoegner's outrage is the latest in dozens of courtroom reports from Bitcoin SV (BSV) creator