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The institutional investment manager holds 30,454 shares of Grayscale’s GBTC, according to a new SEC filing. And no, the firm is not part of the Rothschild family dynasty. Rothschild Investment Corporation, a leading Chicago-based financial institution founded in 1908, has invested heavily in Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust, according to a Monday morning filing with the United…

Per the latest in lobbying disclosures, Ripple Labs shelled out for its lobbying on legislation looking to change the treatment of crypto under securities laws. Ripple Labs spent $690,000 on lobbying in the United States in 2020, which still didn’t save the firm from the Securities and Exchange Commission. Per legally mandated disclosures for 2020,…

Blockchain’s further success is contingent on the establishment of a strong free market and positive competition. Humans over the centuries found themselves quarreling with each other over everything from food to land to ideology, only to later find themselves at peace and cooperating. Later, once more, they’d return to draw arms. Great schisms between Catholicism…

The regulator had previously suspended the exchange following several brief outages due to extreme volume spikes. Bitkub, Thailand’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, resumed its services on Jan. 23 following a brief period of shutdown enforced by the country’s Securities and Exchange Commission.  The shutdown followed a number of brief service outages which occurred due to large…

CEO Merrick Okamoto said the crypto purchase would help make Marathon an appealing choice to investors seeking “exposure to this new asset class.” Nevada-based crypto mining firm Marathon Patent Group has invested $150 million in Bitcoin as a reserve asset. Marathon announced today that it has purchased more than 4,812 Bitcoin (BTC) for $150 million…