Gordon Law Group, a tax law firm, will defend McAfee on both his tax evasion and securities fraud charges.
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Meitu said the bitcoin acquisition would compose part of Miracle Vision’s treasury, while the ether purchase is part of wider product plans.
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Morgan Stanley alerted its wealth management advisors Wednesday that the Wall Street giant will begin offering access to at least one bitcoin-related fund to accredited wealth management clients.
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Shenzhen-listed factory equipment maker New Universal has announced it is moving into the IPFS mining space.
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A new investor note penned by Morgan Stanley’s wealth management unit, dated Wednesday, outlines a case for cryptocurrency as an emerging investable asset class.
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Crypto exchange Coinbase filed an amended S-1 form on Wednesday, disclosing that it has registered about 115 million shares for its direct listing on Nasdaq.
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Quick Take
- Livepeer is a protocol for decentralized video streaming. The project has raised a total of $11 million. Investors include Northzone, Multicoin Capital, and Digital Currency Group (among others)
- The primary argument in favor of Livepeer is that it can cut video streaming costs by bringing a latent supply of GPU miners to live video transcoding
- After a quiet period, Livepeer may be starting to see demand — 350k minutes of streaming in the past week and e.g. a new video streaming platform File.Video built on Livepeer and IPFS
Kraken plans to go public next year via a direct listing, a spokesperson of the cryptocurrency exchange told The Block.
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BitMEX founder and former CEO Arthur Hayes intends to voluntarily surrender to U.S. authorities next month on a proposed $10 million bail.
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Reuters reported today that BoJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the bank must “prepare thoroughly” to issue a CBDC.
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