An unconfirmed report claims that NASDAQ has plans to launch BTC-based futures contracts, and that these plans are continuing to go forward despite the recent crypto crash.
This is not the first attempt by U.S. states to allow cryptocurrency to be used in tax payments, although it is slightly different and ultimately the most successful so far.
Bitcoin payment platform BitPay is now going to allow payments with the Paxos Standard token (PAX), which it calls “the fastest growing stablecoin and the highest trading volume of any U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin.”
As a special event What Bitcoin Did has partnered with the campaign to free Ross Ulbricht to host a detailed analysis of Ulbricht’s arrest and imprisonment, Railroaded, on the LTB Network.
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has recently moved to take custody of a large sum of assets from a crypto exchange currently frozen in accounts at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).