Another day, another bitcoin buy for MicroStrategy.
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A screenshot suggesting Chinese ETH miners cracked Nvidia’s GPU hash rate limiter swiftly made media this week – but it didn’t actually happen.
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Quick Take
- A recent wave of approvals for bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Canada have many in the U.S. asking: when bitcoin ETF?
- Canada is historically a proving ground for novel financial products, and some think this means a U.S. approval could come soon.
- Right now VanEck and Cboe’s offering is the only prospectus with an impending decision.
To support fundamental research and development, digital asset financial institution Nexo has contributed $150,000 to Brink to help continually strengthen the Bitcoin protocol and foster the developer community.
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Polkadot-based DeFi project Reef Finance has raised $20 million in a token sale round.
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Crypto exchange Binance is reportedly being investigated by the U.S. government over the nature of traders on its platform.
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Quick Take
- Founded in 2017 by Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain, Multicoin Capital is a thesis-driven investment firm that invests exclusively in digital assets and blockchain companies
- Aside from direct investment in DeFi protocols, the firm has been an active investor in what is commonly called middleware solutions, or protocols that are providing services, data, tooling, and or infrastructure to interface layers
- In total, the firm’s portfolio consists of at least 35 startups and protocols across seven verticals, which The Block has mapped out. This is the second iteration of Multicoin Capital’s portfolio map and an update to our previous coverage
Popular online broker Robinhood has said that women crypto traders are surging on its platform in an encouraging sign that crypto can help democratize finance for all.
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The Bank of Russia, the country’s central bank, plans to debut a prototype version of a digital ruble platform before the end of 2021, a senior official has reportedly said.
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The WisdomTree Bitcoin Trust filing follows a wave of Canadian approvals and subsequent U.S.-focused prospectus submissions.
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