Bitcoin News and Finance: What You Need to Know

Global investment bank JPMorgan expects its digital currency, JPM coin, to “start taking off.” The bank says JPM coin could handle $10 billion in daily transactions in the next year or two, according to its global head of financial institution payments. He emphasized that JPM coin transactions should grow at least five to tenfold. JPMorgan’s JPM Coin Poised to Handle $10B Daily Global investment bank JPMorgan’s global head of financial institution payments, Umar Farooq, discussed the bank’s own digital currency, JPM coin, on Wednesday in an interview with Bloomberg on the sidelines of the Singapore Fintech Festival. Farooq expressed his optimism for JPM coin transactions to grow at least five to tenfold, emphasizing the potential for daily transactions with JPM coin to reach $10 billion within the next year or two. He opined: We really think it’s going to start taking off. JPMorgan described JPM coin as “a permissioned system that serves as a payment rail and deposit account l...

Fifty-eight U.S. lawmakers have probed President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen regarding Hamas’ digital asset operations, as well as whether the U.S. has had success in seizing illicit cryptocurrencies. Despite reports that terrorist groups have raised millions in crypto, the lawmakers stressed: “It remains unclear how much, if any, of the publicly identified digital assets are accessible to or remains in the possession of Hamas.” Lawmakers Want Answers From Biden, Yellen Fifty-eight U.S. lawmakers sent a bipartisan letter to President Joe Biden and Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on Wednesday seeking answers regarding Hamas’ crypto operations, including the group’s “ability to utilize digital assets to finance its operations.” The fact-finding letter aims to help Congress gain a better understanding of Hamas’ use of cryptocurrencies. Noting that Congress needs “greater context around Hamas’s operations,” the lawmakers, including U.S. Representatives Tom Emmer (R-M...

U.S. presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has unveiled his “Three Freedoms of Crypto” policy framework. He stated that as President, he will ensure that innovative sectors, including crypto, are “liberated from the shackles of the unconstitutional shadow government.” He expects to rescind most, if not all, of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) regulations that apply to cryptocurrencies. Vivek Ramaswamy’s Crypto Policy U.S. presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy unveiled his cryptocurrency policy on Thursday. He wrote on social media platform X: Rolling out my ‘Three Freedoms of Crypto’ policy framework at the North American Blockchain Summit this morning in Texas. “Since the inception of crypto, the shadow government in the administrative state in Washington, D.C., and its cronies on Wall Street have tried to quash its rise. They have implemented policies through the *backdoor* using administrative rule-making and arbitrary enforcement that Congress never passe...

A critical vulnerability in early cryptocurrency wallets, identified by cybersecurity startup Unciphered, threatens billions of dollars in digital assets. Originating from a flaw in the BitcoinJS software used for wallet generation between 2011 and 2015, this issue exposes wallets to potential exploitation. Millions of users are being urged to transfer their assets to wallets generated with updated, secure software. Report Shows Early Crypto Wallets Exposed to Billion-Dollar Vulnerability Unciphered ‘s exhaustive 22-month investigation has unearthed a significant flaw in BitcoinJS, a widely used browser-based cryptocurrency wallet generation tool. This flaw stems from the SecureRandom function in the JSBN javascript library, compounded by weaknesses in major browsers’ Math.random implementations. This vulnerability, affecting wallets created from 2011 to 2015, makes them susceptible to attacks, with earlier wallets being more vulnerable. Unciphered disclosed that it has coordinate...