Tesla Tapped Coinbase for $1.5B Bitcoin Buy: Report
Coinbase’s institutional trading wing handled electric car-maker Tesla’s $1.5 billion bitcoin investment earlier this month, according to The Block. The…
Taking Stock of How Far Crypto Has Come
Eleven years post-Bitcoin, six years post-launch of Ethereum, eight days after that announcement, the first signs of crypto product-market fit…
Bitcoin Mining: Wasted Energy or a Better, Greener System?
Is it wasteful to use electricity mining bitcoin? As the Biden Administration settles into power with an ambitious agenda around…
Coinbase Ventures, Paradigm Invest $12M in Synthetix DeFi Platform
Decentralized trading platform Synthetix has raised $12 million from venture capital firms Coinbase Ventures, Paradigm and IOSG. The raise looks…
Money Reimagined: Musk Masters the Attention Economy
Welcome to Money Reimagined. Well, this past week felt historic. As bitcoin surged to all-time highs and found its way…
Blockchain Bites: Mastercard, BNY Mellon Embrace Crypto; Amazon Floats ‘Digital Currency’ Project
Three trends 1. Crypto infrastructure is being laid down across the banking, tech and financial sectors. BNY Mellon, the world’s…
‘Market Battleship’: Why It’s Rigged and How DeFi Can Help
You’ve probably heard there’s a war on Wall Street right now between hedge funds and retail investors over GameStop ($GME)…
The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust: What It Is and How It Works
The Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) is the world’s largest bitcoin fund and the first investment vehicle of its kind to…
The Intangible Reasons Ethereum and Bitcoin Lead
Decentralized finance (DeFi) is exploding. The amount of capital locked in DeFi, an imperfect yet useful measure of traction, recently…
Nic Carter’s Castle Island Ventures Closes $50M Investment Fund
Castle Island Ventures, the early stage crypto fund helmed by Nic Carter and Matt Walsh, has raised $50 million for…