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PortuguêsA bullish stock market left bitcoin behind Monday with the world’s oldest cryptocurrency trading flat. The absence of action in bitcoin is in contrast to the performance of global equities…
Continue ReadingEthereum developers are aspiring to launch Eth 2.0 in 2020. But that doesn’t mean all the technical details have been spelled out yet. The sum of account balances maintained by…
Continue ReadingAs Elon Musk settles into being richer than Warren Buffett, NLW looks at what is driving the Tesla ($TSLA) stock rally. Elon Musk is now richer than Warren Buffett. A…
Continue ReadingAn index of 50 low-capitalization cryptocurrencies, the so-called Shitcoin Index, is up 114% so far this year. Launched in 2019 by FTX, the index was trading at an all-time high…
Continue ReadingRetail interest in Chainlink, which acts as a bridge between cryptocurrency smart contracts and off-chain data feeds, is now at the highest level it has been in well over a…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s mining difficulty is at a record high, Singapore’s central bank digital currency could find commercial use and Chinese firms are going in on Filecoin. Here’s the story: You’re reading Blockchain…
Continue ReadingWith BTC mining difficulty reaching a new record high, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with your bitcoin news roundup! The number of bitcoin addresses holding at least 10,000 coins has…
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Continue ReadingCrypto financial app Abra has settled charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) relating to its offering of swaps deemed unlawful by the…
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Continue ReadingCompound, the leading lending protocol on Ethereum, has broken a billion dollars in total assets borrowed, according to the tracker on its website. This is the latest milestone for a…
Continue ReadingBillion-dollar fund manager Fidelity International has doubled its equity investment in bitcoin mining company Hut 8, bringing its total stake to over 10%. Disclosure The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk…
Continue ReadingCoinDesk columnist Nic Carter is a partner at Castle Island Ventures, a venture fund based in Cambridge, Mass., that focuses on public blockchains. He is also the co-founder of Coin…
Continue ReadingThe number of addresses holding a large number of bitcoins, popularly known as whales, has declined to 14-month lows. However, the drop isn’t necessarily a price-bearish development and may instead…
Continue ReadingA blockchain project from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and state investor Temasek has completed its final development phase and is now being considered as the basis for commercial…
Continue ReadingTwo months after the network’s halving event, it’s harder than ever to mine bitcoin. Bitcoin mining difficulty, a measure of how hard it is to compete for block rewards on…
Continue ReadingThere’s one thing that all investors like: doubling, tripling, or even quadrupling their money. How about a 12-fold increase? That’s what traders have reaped this year from the decentralized lender…
Continue ReadingA developer known for working on enhancing Bitcoin privacy has set his sights on a new project he hopes will “massively improve” how we keep our transactions private. Chris Belcher,…
Continue ReadingAs Filecoin inches closer to a blockchain mainnet launch – after several delays since its $200 million raise in 2017 – investors in China are again speculating heavily on the…
Continue ReadingThis week saw a 125% rise in the price of dogecoin, a cryptocurrency based on a popular 2013 internet meme, created in the same year as both a parody and…
Continue ReadingA reading of a piece by a Yale professor and former head of Morgan Stanley Asia arguing the U.S. dollar’s status is changing rapidly. In it, he argues: Americans have…
Continue ReadingChaincode Labs researcher Clara Shikhelman has been studying mathematics in university since she was 14 years old. Now, as the bitcoin company’s newest post-doctoral fellow, she is exploring ways to…
Continue ReadingPascal Hügli is the Chief Research Officer at Schlossberg&Co, in Switzerland, and author of the book Ignore at Your Own Risk: The New Decentralized World of Bitcoin and Blockchain. Tribal…
Continue ReadingJobless claims are down, coronavirus cases are up and the markets simply don’t know what to do. On The Breakdown’s Weekly Recap, NLW explores: The final tally on the TikTok…
Continue ReadingThe following is excerpted from Camila Russo’s “The Infinite Machine,” an in-depth history of Ethereum, which goes on sale July 14. The sale started on July 22 at midnight in…
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Continue ReadingKik’s proverbial day in court may last a lot longer than Telegram’s. That’s the takeaway from a federal judge’s response to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission during a hearing…
Continue ReadingA small bitcoin dip down to $9,100 recovered, but traders are unsure about further price appreciation. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $9,240 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), gaining 0.25%…
Continue ReadingFor a decade, Michael Krieger’s Liberty Blitzkrieg has been an essential alternative financial and cultural voice. As outrage culture ramps up, here’s why it’s ending. Our main conversation is with…
Continue ReadingThe social payments app Bottlepay (née Bottle Pay) aims to relaunch in the next few weeks, after shuttering due to regulations in December 2019. After restructuring the bitcoin wallet product…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s one-year correlation to the Standard & Poor’s 500 index hit record highs as the leading cryptocurrency continues to trade in lockstep with traditional financial markets. The realized correlation, which…
Continue ReadingOne of the most popular Bitcoin wallets, Electrum, now supports Lightning Network payments. The latest swathe of major changes was released in version 4.0, one of its biggest upgrades since…
Continue ReadingCoinbase will host its first investor day, New York State prosecutors won a jurisdictional dispute involving Bitfinex and a protocol arms race is unfolding in Latin America. Here’s the story: You’re…
Continue ReadingIf there’s one thing we can thank the coronavirus pandemic for, it’s a math lesson. Watching an infection lead to two, then four, then eight, then 16, then 32, then…
Continue ReadingWith the price of BTC headed down and the Federal Reserve’s largest balance sheet decline in 11 years, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your bitcoin news roundup! The Fed’s…
Continue ReadingIn his most recent video, Charles Hoskinson frets that massive egos and bitter conflicts threaten to undermine the cryptocurrency community. But, with a touch of Trumpian hyperbole, he suggests that…
Continue ReadingIn cryptocurrency markets, newfangled “decentralized exchanges” like Kyber are piddling compared with more-established and centralized venues like Binance. But in the eyes of traders, it’s the upstarts who are winning…
Continue ReadingStephanie Hurder, a CoinDesk columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an economic advisory focused on the implementation of emerging technologies, and an academic contributor to the World Economic…
Continue ReadingThe U.S. Federal Reserve’s balance sheet is contracting, but despite popular opinion, that’s not necessarily bad news for bitcoin. The central bank’s balance sheet declined by $88 billion to $6.97…
Continue ReadingOver the past two years, many bitcoin believers donated cryptocurrency to initiatives in Venezuela, often holding up the small nation as the pinnacle example of the technology’s potential. The truth…
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