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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey reiterates a positive outlook on Bitcoin tipping during earnings call

Back in September, Twitter became the first major social media platform to adopt Bitcoin (BTC) tipping, enabling users to send BTC directly to their favorite content creators through the site’s native frontend. The company also allowed users to send their BTC over the Bitcoin Lightning Network to ensure near-instant settlement times. In response to an analyst’s question regarding how cryptocurrencies play into the company’s overall global strategy, Dorsey said the following during the company’s third-quarter earnings call on Oct. 26: “It [Bitcoin tipping] allows for much more speed. Both tipping…

Coinbase CEO Says SEC v Ripple Case ‘Going Better Than Expected’ — Investors Hopeful XRP Will Be Relisted Soon – Altcoins Bitcoin News

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the SEC v. Ripple case “seems to be going better than expected.” He added that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission “is realizing that attacking crypto is politically unpopular.” Coinbase’s CEO on the Ripple Lawsuit, SEC Attacking Crypto The CEO of the Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, commented on the enforcement action against Ripple Labs by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Monday. Referencing a Forbes article titled “The crypto uprising the SEC didn’t see coming,” he tweeted: The Ripple case seems to…

Binance CEO expects ‘very high volatility’ in crypto. Here’s how to trade it

Volatility is a complex statistical measure commonly used by traders and investors. Those unfamiliar with it will likely attribute some sort of special ‘standing’ to analysts whenever the term is used. However, as shown in a recent comment by Binance exchange founder, Changpeng Zhao, most of the time people are clueless about what volatility means. Expect very high volatility in #crypto over the next few months. — CZ Binance (@cz_binance) October 21, 2021 This is not the first time that CZ has made an incorrect assumption on that topic. In…

Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon Is Suing the SEC – Bitcoin News

Do Kwon, co-founder and CEO of Terraform Labs, the company that backs the Terra blockchain ecosystem, is suing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Kwon, who was served a subpoena while appearing at Messari’s Mainnet conference as a presenter, states this behavior was against the SEC’s own policies, and that they needed to go through proper channels to deliver the subpoena. Do Kwon Takes the Fight to the SEC Do Kwon, the co-founder and CEO of Terraform Labs, the company behind the design and creation of Terra,…

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Warns Hyperinflation Will Soon Happen in US and the World – Economics Bitcoin News

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has warned that hyperinflation will soon happen in the U.S. and elsewhere in the world. “Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening,” he predicted. Many people disagreed with him, however. US Will Soon Experience Hyperinflation, Says Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey The CEO of Twitter and Square Inc., Jack Dorsey, tweeted a warning about hyperinflation in the U.S. Friday. “Hyperinflation is going to change everything. It’s happening,” he wrote. Comments flooded his tweet. At the time of writing, it had garnered more than 7K…

AMEX CEO Says Crypto Is Unlikely a Threat to Traditional Credit Cards

Traditional credit card payments will hold firm amid the growth of cryptocurrencies, American Express CEO Stephen Squeri predicted on the company’s third-quarter earnings call Friday. Unlike crypto, traditional credit cards offer clients rewards, service, ability for disputing charges, along with the ability to extend credit, Squeri said. Squeri said he sees cryptocurrency much more as an asset class at this time, adding clients don’t use AMEX to “buy stock” and doesn’t see them focusing on buying crypto either. Squeri said he sees a role for digital…

Robinhood CEO Says Waitlist for Firm’s New Crypto Wallet Reached 1 Million Customers – Bitcoin News

On Thursday, Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev spoke at a conference called the Disruptor 50 Summit and the executive explained that the waitlist for the company’s recently announced crypto wallet has 1 million sign-ups so far. “We’re very proud of our cryptocurrency platform and giving people more utility with the coins they have,” Tenev said during the event. Robinhood Crypto Wallet Waitlist Hits a Million Sign-ups Vlad Tenev, the founder of Robinhood Markets, told the public on Thursday that the waitlist for Robinhood’s crypto wallet has reached 1 million customers. Speaking…

Regulating DeFi With Fireblocks CEO Michael Shaulov

The third aspect is really around anti-money laundering (AML). I think it is very important, because we don’t want to see this thing leveraged by bad actors to do things that are objectively bad for humanity. The solution for that is a kind of “soft KYC [know-your-customer]” rule. Let’s say you have KYC with Binance and they give me a token that says I was KYC’d, you’re in this jurisdiction and you’re a high net worth individual. And then if I want to work with Aave, for example, they can…

Ripple CEO says the SEC helped Ethereum to overtake XRP as No.2 crypto

Ripple chief executive Brad Garlinghouse has been airing his thoughts over the state of the crypto market and regulations, and a grudge over the financial regulator’s approach to Ethereum appears to have surfaced. Speaking at the DC Fintech Week virtual conference on Oct. 21, the Ripple boss declared that Ethereum had been granted a regulatory green light that enabled it to surpass his company’s XRP token. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has been pursuing Ripple over claims that XRP is an unregistered security. In January, Ripple filed a Freedom…

AMC gets ‘hyperactive’ about crypto, CEO says it may issue its own coin

American multinational entertainment giant AMC is getting very excited about blockchain and the company’s chief executive is publicly mulling the issuance of its own cryptocurrency. During an interview with CNBC on Oct. 20, AMC chief executive Adam Aron discussed the firm’s crypto ambitions. There were no solid details but the company boss did make some revealing comments. “We’ve made a lot of noise in the last few months about getting hyperactive in cryptocurrency.” He then canvassed the possibility of AMC issuing its own coin, stating: “There are a lot of…