Robinhood Responds to Accusations of Favoring Wall Street over Its Users

Seeking Alpha has published an exposé by Logan Kane regarding free stock and crypto trading smartphone application Robinhood. Mr. Kane alleges the company “takes from the millennial and gives to the high-frequency trader” by accepting payment for order flow and selling order data for “over ten times as much as other brokers who engage in the … Read more

Robinhood Accused of Taking from Younger Investors to Benefit Wall Street Traders

Journalist Logan Kane of Seeking Alpha conducted a deep dive on the practices of popular stock and cryptocurrency trading smartphone application Robinhood. According to Mr. Kane, “it seems that today’s Robinhood takes from the millennial and gives to the high-frequency trader. Not only does Robinhood accept payment for order flow, but on a back-of-the-envelope calculation, … Read more

Dogecoin Price Watch: Currency Outperforming Most Other Altcoins

At press time, Dogecoin – the currency that started out as a joke and uses a cute little Shiba Inu as its mascot – is trading for about $0.0024. This is about $0.0012 less than where it stood just a few days ago, and the currency is moving down the financial ladder. Still, the currency … Read more

The Daily: Robinhood Aiming for IPO, Dodgers to Give Away Crypto Tokens

In today’s edition of The Daily we cover news about trading app Robinhood aiming for an IPO, MLB team Dodgers giving away a collectible token to fans at an upcoming game, which crypto ventures are among the most sought-after startups in the US, and Coinbase’s big aspirations for the future. Also Read: Alleged BTC-e Operator’s … Read more

The Daily: Coinbase Returns to Wyoming, Robinhood Crypto Reaches Iowa and Georgia

In today’s edition of Bitcoin in Brief, we cover the return of Coinbase to Wyoming, the expansion of Robinhood Crypto to Iowa and Georgia, a lawsuit against an exchange for failing to give a user his BCH plus a cybersecurity research that finds cryptocurrency exchanges experienced a massive surge of user data leaks. Also Read: … Read more

Ethereum, Coinbase, Robinhood Led by Under 40 Year Olds Killing It

Fortune magazine’s annual 40 Under 40 is out, recently published in print and online, highlighting leaders under forty years of age. This year, the cryptosphere is well represented by Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin, Coinbase’s Brian Armstrong, and Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev. Wielding billions and billions in valuations, their average age is just a tender 30 years old. … Read more

BCH Roundup: Steady Development, Market Uptrends, and New Apps

The anniversary of the blockchain split that took place on August 1, 2017 is just two weeks away. Over the past few months Bitcoin Cash (BCH) infrastructure support and development has been exponential, while BCH proponents have also seen a bunch more announcements during the second week of July. Also read: Have You Tried Blockchain 5.0 … Read more

Robinhood Crypto Enables Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash Support

Making cryptocurrencies more accessible to the masses will be an ongoing struggle. Even centralized exchanges are not making the biggest of impacts in this regard. Robinhood, a brokerage which has ventured into cryptocurrency recently, has added support for both Litecoin and Bitcoin Cash. Robinhood Continues to Expand Although not everyone is a big fan of … Read more

Robinhood Crypto App Adds Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin Trading

The Robinhood Crypto app now supports bitcoin cash (BCH) and litecoin (LTC) trading. Thanks to adding the cryptocurrency service, the app has achieved rapid growth and is now boasting a user base of 5 million people, up from just 3 million before.     Also Read: Bitcoin in Brief Thursday: Crypto Phones, Spy Games, Binance … Read more

Robinhood Reportedly Considering Formal Banking Services

Unnamed sources suggest popular free crypto and stock trading application (app), Robinhood, is negotiating with US regulators about prospects for it becoming a bank, complete with traditional services such as savings accounts. It’s still early going, and very preliminary, but such an arrangement could well be the future of banking. Also read: Bitcoin More Influential … Read more