Daily Crypto News | 14.01.2021
1- Bitcoin sees $40,000 once again.
2- Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell announced his estimations on the launch the national CBDC as “years rather than months.”
3- Sci-Hub parts ways with Handshake after 2 days, reasoning their concerns with decentralization of the platform.
4- Ripple is going to court with 22 lawyers, while SEC only has 3.
5- Coinbase announced “Our directive is to list every compliant asset possible.”
6- Firo, formerly known as Zcoin launched their privacy by default protocol.
7- Grammy awarded music band Portugal. The Man is launching their social token.
8- Grayscale has raised $3.3B in 2020 Q4.
9- Paxos is partnering with ChainLink to make their asset-backed tokens more available in the DeFi markets.
10- FinCEN is extending their comment period on their KYC proposal.
11- Digital asset security platform Fireblocks is partnering with Blockdaemon and Staked to provide PoS services Polkadot, Tezos and ethereum 2.0.
12- Winklevoss brothers consider Gemini IPO.
13- OKEx added 22 more pairs to their recently launched real-time settlement perpetual swaps.
14- James Howells, the British man who threw away his hard drive containing 7,500 Bitcoins is now offering the local authority to share 25% of the total recovered $BTC, if they let him search the trash.
15- Gemini is launching their credit card with crypto rewards, using Blockrize.
16- Deribit Exchange now offers their users to bet on $400,000 Bitcoin by the end of the year.
17- eToro warned their users to be cautious when trading cryptocurrencies in the weekend, because of the low liquidity.
18- Blockware CEO Mason Jappa joins Riot Blockchain’s advisory board.
19- Financial Services Agency of Japan says that $XRP is not a security.
20- Anchorage becomes the first OCC approved crypto bank.
21- Coinbase Ventures has invested an undisclosed amount into industrial Bitcoin mining and software developing company Titan.
22- Stacks, formerly known as Blockstack has launched their mainnet Stacks 2.0, which will help developers build on Bitcoin.
23- Gnosis now owns 2.2% of the total supply of ethereum.
24- In Jeju Island, South Korea, COVID-19 will be tracked via ICONLOOP’s blockchain technology.
25- German real estate company Vonovia has used Stellar’s blockchain to transfer real estate ownership worth $24M.
26- Blake Paulson is becoming the new Acting Comptroller of the Currency today, replacing Brian Brooks who served for 8 months under Trump administration.
27- Rick and Morty creator Justin Roiland’s NFT artwork will be auctioned on Nifty Gateway.
28- Bitcoin is up 8.4% at $39,335.
29- Voyager Token (VGX) is the highest gainer in top 100 list with a 58.3% daily profit.
30- Blockstack (STX) is the highest loser in top 100 list with a 10.6% daily loss.
31- $BTC = $BTC | 1 Satoshi is 1 Satoshi.
