Author: American Coins & Gold

JPMorgan Survey Shows Over Half of Institutional Traders Don't Want Crypto Exposure
The bank’s survey of over 4,000 traders found that 78% of the participants do not plan to trade cryptocurrencies, while just 12% plan to do so in the next five years.

U.S. Senators Berate SEC's Gensler for Agency's 'Unethical' Handling of Crypto Case
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s admission that it misrepresented evidence in a lawsuit against the blockchain project DEBT Box casts doubt on its wider enforcement practices, several Republican senators argued in a letter to Chair Gary Gensler.

Bitcoin Mining and the Politicization of a Once Reputable Federal Agency
The Department of Energy’s statistics wing is feigning an “emergency” to attack legitimate U.S. businesses and score political points, Texas Blockchain Council President Lee Bratcher and Chamber of Digital Commerce CEO Perianne Boring write.

Layer-2 Blockchain Developer StarkWare Plans ‘Cairo’ to Verify Layer-3s
Cairo, which the StarkWare and the Herodotus developer team worked on together, is a key piece of technology that verifies proofs and posts them back to the layer-2 blockchain, instead of Ethereum’s mainnet.

Polygon Releases 'Type 1 Prover,' Claiming Milestone Set by Ethereum's Vitalik Buterin
The announcement means that existing EVM chains or optimistic rollups can connect to the prover without modification, then plug into Polygon’s newly released Aggregation layer, providing access to “all of the liquidity and value on Ethereum itself,” Polygon said.

Bitcoin ETFs (Ex-GBTC) Now Hold More BTC Than MicroStrategy
The recently launched spot bitcoin ETFs, excluding Grayscale’s GBTC, added nearly another 5,000 tokens to their holdings yesterday, and now at more than 192,000 BTC, hold more of the crypto than MicroStrategy (MSTR), whose total stood at 190,000 as of the end of January.

Crypto for Advisors: Bitcoin as a Building Block for Portfolios
A practical, unbiased, and proven approach could classify bitcoin as another building block in institutional investors’ portfolios.

Bitcoin Could Hit K in Days, Propelled by Historic Chinese New Year Gains: 10X Research
Bitcoin targets $48,000 in the short term fueled by a strong historic track record around the Chinese New Year, 10X Research’s Markus Thielen said.

Protocol Village: Web3 Security Firm FuzzLand Raises M Led by 1kx
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of Feb. 8-14.

Bitcoin Breaks Above K, Traders Predict a Possible K Push
The cryptocurrency last traded above $45,000 on Jan 11.