Ferrari sells cars so it can go racing; Bequant built a crypto exchange to get into prime brokerage. That’s the analogy offered by the firm’s head of institutional services, Alex…
Continue ReadingTorrential downpours of nonstop rain have been wreaking havoc in China’s Sichuan province, which has caused some operations to shut down ASIC mining devices. Reports from the region show that…
Continue ReadingThe recent Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) ruling that national banks and savings associations can provide cryptocurrency custody services to clients is one of the biggest milestones in the short…
Continue ReadingEthereum recently turned five years old, and coincidentally, it also appears to have reached an inflection point for user adoption. In the second quarter of 2020, daily active Ethereum users…
Continue ReadingYearn Finance (YFI) launched just a month ago and since then the yield aggregating platform’s total value locked has climbed to $611 million. In the last three days, YFI price…
Continue Reading“Thank you for calling the Clinic of Advanced Biological Computing, this is Dr. Elliott Fisher.” So began the strangest conversation I’ve had as a journalist, with a time-traveling group of…
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 ReadingWhen dust settles in your home, you wipe it up. But what about when unwanted dust makes its way into your bitcoin wallet? Well, cleaning it up may not be…
Continue ReadingWith bitcoin’s exchange reserves at a 20-month low and its hashrate getting soaked in Sichuan, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup! The amount of bitcoin…
Continue ReadingFloods are dampening bitcoin mining hashrates, Ethereum Classic may be thrown off its most popular exchange and bitcoin is moving off exchanges. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the…
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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 ReadingBitcoin today broke up through resistance at $12,000, pushing higher and higher along its powerful uptrend. Not since 2019 has Bitcoin had this much bullish momentum behind it. However, a…
Continue ReadingBitcoin price just set a new yearly high after pushing above $12,000 and may be gearing up for an explosive move higher. The first-ever cryptocurrency may be finally entering a…
Continue ReadingOn Monday, Bitcoin underwent a notable breakout. The asset surged from the $11,800 baseline it was trading at to a daily high just shy of $12,500 in the span of…
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 ReadingThe Bitcoin (BTC) and gold one-month correlation reached a record high of 68% as Bitcoin hit $12,000 early in August, but the correlation crashed by 20% the following week. Despite…
Continue ReadingThe creator of arguably the most famous Bitcoin (BTC) price forecasting tool has declared that the largest cryptocurrency is in a bull market. In a tweet on Aug. 18, quant…
Continue ReadingOn Aug. 18, the Senate Intelligence Committee released volume five of its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. The new version found that former CEO of Overstock.com and…
Continue ReadingBinance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is collaborating with law enforcement authorities in Ukraine to take down some large-scale money laundering schemes. Working with the exchange, Ukraine’s cyber police identified…
Continue ReadingMajor U.S. financial services company Capital One has filed a new patent application for a cryptocurrency analysis and trading system that will attempt to predict crypto market trends and generate…
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 ReadingThe Neutrino protocol, a price-stable multi-asset protocol running on major blockchain platform Waves, is introducing the Neutrino dollar (USDN) on Ethereum. The Neutrino dollar, an algorithmic stablecoin collateralized by the…
Continue ReadingPRICE POINT Bitcoin (BTC) was flat after jumping on Monday to a new 2020 high above $12,400. Analysts are now speculating whether the largest cryptocurrency can hold the higher ground.…
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 ReadingThe price of Bitcoin (BTC) has increased in the last 48 hours as the United States stock market cautiously increased. The recent correlation between BTC and U.S. equities further intensified,…
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 ReadingPrior to today, Chainlink (LINK) was seemingly on an unstoppable uptrend. The asset recently hit a new all-time high price of $20, around 1,000% higher than the lows of the…
Continue ReadingBitcoin has performed extremely well over recent months, despite the dismal macroeconomic outlook. As of this article’s writing, BTC trades for $12,400, up around 4% in the past 24 hours.…
Continue ReadingCybersecurity researchers have detected what they believe to be the first ever stealth crypto mining campaign to steal Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials. The mining campaign was described as being…
Continue ReadingTradeLens — the blockchain shipping platform created by IBM and Danish logistics giant Maersk — has signed on a major Turkish-owned international terminals operator. TradeLens is a global supply chain management…
Continue ReadingAuthor Cal Evans bills The Little Book of Crypto as “A No BS Introduction To Crypto.” Evans also claims to be “regarded as one of the best crypto lawyers” working…
Continue ReadingThe crypto market has been caught in the throes of an incredibly strong uptrend ever since it bottomed in mid-March. The decline seen at this time was intense, with Bitcoin…
Continue ReadingWhile the focus of crypto investors has been on Bitcoin and Ethereum over recent days, Litecoin’s recent price performance has come into the public spotlight. From last week’s lows of…
Continue ReadingBitcoin price has just today set a new high for 2020 and is showing no signs of slowing down. However, as greed reaches extreme levels and ROI is stacking across…
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 ReadingBitcoin price gained nearly 5% and it tested the $12,500 resistance against the US Dollar. BTC is currently correcting gains, but technicals suggest more upsides above $12,500. Bitcoin broke the…
Continue ReadingLeading cryptocurrency Bitcoin is cementing its position as a mainstream macro asset. As cryptocurrency was advertised on TV screens nationwide last week, and in the pages of the Financial Times,…
Continue ReadingSimon Peters, market analyst: Bitcoin teases us at $12,000 Suffice it to say, it was a busy week, with mixed performance in equity markets and odd – but not unpromising…
Continue ReadingMany Bitcoin skeptics have been turned into bulls as the asset continues to press higher despite a harrowing macroeconomic backdrop and other risks. There remain many critics of the leading…
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