Tanzeel Akhtar

Crypto mining pools have been a natural response to the issue that arises from solo mining - namely that there is massive financial risk in mining alone due to the fact that mining is essentially a game of chance.

Coincheck and Poloniex, the recently-hacked crypto exchanges that lost millions to cyber theft, were recently acquired by other financial companies, one of them a listed Japanese firm. Are distressed crypto exchanges becoming attractive acquisition targets?

Exchange traded notes (ETNs) are debt backed securities which offer investors exposure to the change in value of an underlying asset. They are typically listed on public exchanges and can be purchased by any broker with access to the listing exchange.

When will Bitcoin exchange traded funds (ETFs) be approved? In March this year the Winklevoss Twins Bitcoin ETF application was rejected by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Then both investment management firm VanEck and ETF specialists Rex Shares withdrew filings with the SEC to launch ETFs. The SEC has argued that these firms can not file a Bitcoin ETF until the underlying futures contracts are already in place.