Hodler's Digest: the Great Tether 'Unpegging' and Wozniak Gets Into Blockchain

In the announcement of the new company, Fidelity noted that "70 percent" of institutional finance executives believe crypto will have a role in the future of the financial sector, yet many are still "Sitting on the sidelines" before they enter the market.

Crypto compliance provider and research firm Chainalysis has partnered with crypto exchange Binance in order to lend support for detecting suspicious transactions.

U.S. banking firm Goldman Sachs and Mike Novogratz, CEO of crypto investment firm Galaxy Digital, have invested $15 million in U.S. crypto custody service BitGo.

Payment companies MasterCard and Visa will reportedly soon group crypto and ICO jurisdictions into a new "High risk" category, along with binary options, CFDs, and forex.

While speaking at a finance innovation forum, Nabiullina said that she believes crypto and blockchain are now being treated more rationally.

Crypto hedge fund Gelfman Blueprint, Inc. and its CEO Nicholas Gelfman have been ordered to pay $2.5 million in fines by a New York federal court for operating a Ponzi scheme.

Joey Krug, the co-CIO of blockchain investment firm and hedge fund Pantera Capital, said this week that he sees crypto markets increasing tenfold in 2020.

Starting with Blockchain co-founder Nicolas Cary's $10,000 Bitcoin donation to the University of Puget Sound, colleges are currently grappling with the idea of crypto, as well as the technicalities of setting up crypto wallets, in order to accept donations from some of their more tech-savvy alumni.

The New Yorker goes into exhausting detail about the beginnings of the crypto industry, paying special attention to Vitalik Buterin and his unofficial power over the scene.

Throughout the long article, the author travels to crypto conferences all over the world, has blockchain explained to him countless times, and gets several opposing views of the space.