The 2020 halving (the third in bitcoin’s history) means the bitcoin mining reward has now been reduced from 12.5 bitcoin per block to 6.25 units. Previous halvings have seen the reward reduced from 50 to 25, and then 12.5.

CEO Jeffrey Sprecher said the company had “opportunistically repurchased shares,” spending $300 million at $92 per share during the recent quarter while maintaining the company’s leverage, as measured by EBITDA...

According to its April 29 earnings report, Silvergate Bank added 46 new crypto customers in the first quarter and saw fee income and deposits increase from those customers due to COVID-19 crypto volatility...

The explosive growth of security tokens shows investors want to trade private securities... The PPEX offers a means to responsibly develop protocols and systems for trading these securities on secondary markets.

The move signals China’s wider efforts to test out the digital currency project, with state-owned commercial banks already developing wallet applications in anticipation of widespread adoption...

The record-keeping platform will store mortgages, warranty deeds and titles, as well as providing provenance on land ownership in the small county of less than 15,000 people...

The firm behind the sale said the plant benefits from locking in profits and receiving an upfront source of capital to continue expanding its operations, but the firm declined to disclose the amount earned in the deal...

Analysts warn CMC could serve as a marketing channel for Binance, steering customers to the exchange... CEO Zhao, on the other hand, says it’s a simple, albeit large, purchase of a cash-flow positive asset.

The acquisition provides HIVE with an advanced, operating bitcoin mining facility ready to transition to next generation mining hardware, with access to some of the lowest-cost electricity on the planet...

The proposal allows businesses to raise a wider variety of public funds without needing to register as a public company... changes that lay the groundwork for easier fundraising during an economic recovery.

BlockFi, a financial company focused on cryptos, says it has enabled a new feature that lets customers use cash to buy bitcoin... a request customers had been making on a daily basis, according to the company.

The $2.2 billion represents 16 different commercial properties based in the U.S. and Canada... The tokens are currently running on ethereum, but plans are in place for a more secure enterprise blockchain platform.