The second full business week of January has demonstrated many trends that NLW argues will shape bitcoin and crypto throughout the year. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io. On “The…
Continue ReadingFans of K-Pop girl group Mamamoo will soon be able to buy digital products related to the band using blockchain technology. RBW (Rainbowbridge World), a South Korean entertainment company representing…
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Continue ReadingOptimism has “soft launched” its solution to Ethereum’s transaction problem, the Optimistic Virtual Machine (OVM). The startup announced Friday that OVM is now live, at a time when gas fees…
Continue ReadingBitcoin was slipping Friday on lower-than-average volumes for 2021 so far. In other news, while BTC and ETH are up this year, some DeFi tokens are doing even better. Bitcoin…
Continue ReadingU.S. banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs has issued a request for information (RFI) to explore digital asset custody, according to a source inside the bank. When asked about timing, the Goldman…
Continue ReadingThe entrepreneurial mayor brings his recruitment of tech talent to the crypto space with the potential of a 1% investment of the city’s reserves into BTC. This episode is sponsored…
Continue ReadingIt’s an established truth the cryptocurrency sector is more fragmented than shattered glass. Industry devotees have long made the most of working piecemeal, accepting ever-increasing fragmentation as the price of…
Continue ReadingThe CEO of cryptocurrency lender Celsius believes CEL won’t meet XRP’s fate. In a Dec. 31 interview, Alex Mashinsky attributed a recent spike in CEL’s price to the token being…
Continue ReadingCreditors can claim 90% of the bitcoin they are owed from Mt. Gox under the terms of deal a pact reached with CoinLab, the bitcoin exchange best known for handling…
Continue ReadingWith the price of BTC bouncing off $40K and the Fed in no rush to issue its own token, CoinDesk’s Market’s Daily is back with the latest crypto news roundup.…
Continue ReadingOn this episode of “Money Reimagined” the discussion comes home for an insider’s look at how new, disruptive technology and government interact. For this discussion, hosts Michael Casey and Sheila…
Continue ReadingAnother week, another lifetime lived: The U.S. President impeached, again. Worldwide COVID-19 deaths close in on 2 million. Bitcoin surges to a record high above $42,000, promptly plunges to almost…
Continue ReadingBitcoin is in the red today, following yesterday evening’s announcement of President-elect Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus plan. Top shelf Stakeholders stakeThe bitcoin exchange-traded product (ETP) from ETC Group (recently…
Continue ReadingAn India-based startup is coming for decentralized finance (DeFi) stalwart MakerDAO’s crown with the launch of its new “valuecoin.” MahaDAO’s ARTH algorithmic stablecoin is now live on the Ethereum mainnet,…
Continue Reading(EDITOR’S NOTE: First Mover will not publish Monday, Jan. 18, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S., a CoinDesk company holiday. The cryptocurrency market will be…
Continue ReadingNumerous exchanges, like Bittrex, have delisted coins that have features to protect user privacy. Explanations of why they’ve done so have been vague or non-existent. It has set up clashes…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s two-day rally has stalled as the U.S. dollar gains ground in the wake of Joe Biden’s fiscal stimulus announcement. The U.S. President-elect proposed an emergency relief package worth $1.9…
Continue ReadingThe leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent…
Continue ReadingRipple has inked a deal with a Malaysian money transfer business and Bangladesh’s largest mobile financial services provider to enable a remittance corridor between the two countries. According to an…
Continue ReadingProvisional liquidators are seeking greater powers to investigate a defunct cryptocurrency trading firm after it was allegedly discovered to be lying to investors and operating illegally. According to a report…
Continue ReadingA petition to the European Parliament hopes to persuade the bloc to provide financial support to victims of cryptocurrency crime. The petition, filed Wednesday by lawyer Jonathan Levy, seeks the…
Continue ReadingThere’s a decentralized autonomous organization (DAO) that lets ETH holders back Ethereum 2.0 without losing liquidity, and it wants to give its participants a vote. Until Feb. 12, ETH holders…
Continue ReadingThis week, reports emerged that Gary Gensler, the former chairman of the Commodity Future Trading Commission (CFTC) is set to be President-elect Joe Biden’s choice to take over the Securities…
Continue ReadingDeltec, Tether’s Bahamas-based bank, announced Thursday it was investing customer funds in bitcoin. The announcement, made by Deltec Bank & Trust Chief Investment Officer Hugo Rogers during a year-in-review video,…
Continue Reading“Miners are selling” is a popular trope used to explain bitcoin’s occasional downward price action. But on-chain data doesn’t support this narrative, according to analysts and mining pools themselves. After…
Continue ReadingAfter closing out last week at over $40,000 on Sunday, bitcoin hit that price again Thursday while traders are pushing ether volumes to new liquidity levels. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around…
Continue ReadingAs prices for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies continue to surge this year, many traders are looking for any indicator for when – or if – the bull market will come…
Continue ReadingOriginally slated for December 1, 2020, Bitcoin Core version 0.21.0 is now available for download, and includes a handful of notable changes to Bitcoin’s primary software implementation. Most notably, Bitcoin…
Continue ReadingSpeaking at an online event hosted by Princeton University, the chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve said, “We don’t feel an urge or need to be first,” on CDBCs. “Effectively,”…
Continue ReadingAlt-right extremist groups and a handful of personalities linked to last week’s storming of the U.S. Capitol building received a bitcoin donation worth about $522,000 one month before the D.C.…
Continue ReadingFrom “backed by nothing” to “China mining control,” a complete look at the best response to every category of bitcoin FUD out there. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io. Download…
Continue ReadingBitcoin is booming again as crypto-bull Brian Brooks pushes through his “open access” banking rules before stepping down as the top U.S. banking regulator. Top shelf Going public?The Winklevoss twins…
Continue ReadingIndependent registered investment advisor Tyrone Ross is back in his first show of 2021. In this episode he shares his thoughts and frustrations on how the explosive rally in bitcoin…
Continue ReadingIn a move that could rapidly broaden the number of cryptocurrencies listed, Coinbase announced Thursday a new issuance portal called Asset Hub. “Today, Coinbase supports trading for over 40 crypto…
Continue ReadingPrivacy coin Firo, previously known as Zcoin, has launched the new protocol Lelantus on its mainnet. The implementation introduces “on-by-default” privacy and prompts users to anonymize their funds with the…
Continue ReadingThe recent alliance of pirate academic library Sci-Hub and a blockchain-based domain name system (DNS) was celebrated by the blockchain community. Now, it’s already over. Less than two days after…
Continue ReadingThe band behind that “rebel just for kicks” song is doing a social token with Rally. Portugal. The Man joins Christian vocal trio Selah on Rally’s “Creator Coin” platform. Competing…
Continue ReadingPaxos is teaming up with Chainlink in a bid to make its asset-backed tokens more widely available across the decentralized finance (DeFi) market. The paxos standard (PAX) and paxos gold…
Continue ReadingFederal Magistrate Judge Zia M. Faruqui has learned to stop worrying and love unhosted wallets. “The horror story of unhosted wallets is fiction, not fact,” wrote the judge in a…
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