Crypto

Crypto market maker Wintermute has taken a major step into traditional finance by registering its US affiliate as a broker-dealer.

The Financial Services Agency (FSA) made the request jointly with the National Police Agency on Thursday.

The wallet received 49.97 BTC on July 16, 2011, when bitcoin traded around $10, according to Galaxy Research, and had not spent since.

Coinbase has expanded its trading platform to allow users in the United Kingdom to trade U.S.

Nasdaq-listed Bitcoin mining company PowerCompute announced Wednesday that it has refinanced $18 million of existing debt through a new Bitcoin-backed credit facility with Arch Lending, carrying an initial annual interest rate of approximately 2%.