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PortuguêsDeFi’s agricultural revolution is spurring growth in decentralized exchanges. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin network experienced its lowest difficulty adjustment in 10 years, clocking a negligible change in mining difficulty today, while a…
Continue ReadingAustralia’s stock exchange may delay its blockchain overhaul, thought leaders are meeting in Washington, D.C., to discuss the digitization of money and Ethereum devs have a proposal to pump the…
Continue ReadingBalancer fell victim to a “flash loan” exploit, a mining conglomerate sees potential in blockchain and a shareholders association said EY should have caught Wirecard’s multi-billion-dollar blackhole earlier. Flash loans are…
Continue ReadingNew York officials have instituted a three-strike rule for crypto firms applying for the BitLicense, the Sovrin Foundation is now fun by volunteers and Aussies can now buy BTC at…
Continue ReadingTop financial authorities are rethinking what a “basket-backed” stablecoin means for monetary sovereignty. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issued a new report claiming stablecoin initiatives like Libra haven’t driven…
Continue ReadingToday marks five years of the BitLicense, the controversial crypto safety rail enacted by New York State’s top financial watchdog. In half a decade only 25 licenses have been doled…
Continue ReadingYesterday, it came to light that crypto functionality may come to PayPal and Venmo. If true, as substantiated by three anonymous sources and indicated by an open position for a senior blockchain…
Continue ReadingBitcoin is one of the only sources of funding available for the “pirate” science site, Sci-Hub, which is quietly engaged in war against copyrights. Despite Bitcoin’s ability to disintermediate money…
Continue ReadingThe COMP governance token is seeing massive gains (increasing more than 270% day over day, according to CoinDesk’s First Mover team), as well as potential listings on Coinbase Pro and CoinFlip, a crypto…
Continue ReadingThe Washington Examiner published an excerpt of John Bolton’s new book detailing a dramatic scene in which President Trump told Treasury Secretary Mnuchin to go after bitcoin before tackling trade…
Continue ReadingThe number of bitcoin whales is at its highest level since 2017, as the network adjusts its difficulty setting for the first time post-halving. Elsewhere, Canada is hiring a CBDC…
Continue ReadingCanaan Creative’s stock dipped below $2, its lowest price since the firm went public in November. Experts say demand for new mining equipment may have weakened after the Bitcoin network’s halving…
Continue ReadingTop Shelf View From the BanksIn an investor note, JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts noted bitcoin’s success in outperforming traditional assets in March on a volatility-adjusted basis, and also found liquidity…
Continue ReadingTop shelf Digital DollarsOn Thursday the House Financial Services Committee (FSC) Task Force on Financial Technology convened on Capitol Hill to discuss the possible role of a digital dollar is…
Continue ReadingTop shelf CBDCsThe House Financial Services Committee (FSC) Task Force on Financial Technology will convene Thursday to discuss digital currencies and other novel technologies. This includes a discussion on how…
Continue ReadingAn unknown wallet holder mistakenly, it seems, sent a $2 million transaction fee on the Ethereum blockchain, Elrond is testing its network in a “trial by fire” and Libra’s Dante…
Continue ReadingThe possibility of mass adoption, or at least mass awareness, of crypto was on the agenda today with the integration of a crypto payment option for vending machines in Australia…
Continue ReadingU.N. and Federal Reserve experts independently researched central bank digital currencies and found they could effectively compete with the commercial banking system. Meanwhile, New York State and France have entered…
Continue ReadingBitcoin underwent a protocol update to make the network more resilient to state attacks, while researchers separately found Ethereum may be losing its anonymity. Elsewhere, “Crypto Mom” Hester Pierce has…
Continue ReadingData BreachCoincheck has fallen victim to a data breach after attackers accessed one of its domain name accounts and used it to impersonate the cryptocurrency exchange. The Japanese firm said Tuesday that…
Continue ReadingThe crypto mining pool Poolin has started working with crypto lender BlockFi to expand its lending and financial services business. Meanwhile, Square Crypto has awarded a grant to a Bitcoin…
Continue ReadingChase Bank has settled a class action lawsuit brought by defendants who claim the J.P. Morgan subsidiary overcharged credit card fees for crypto purchases. Meanwhile, a new report shows that…
Continue ReadingThe case for decentralized platforms has never been clearer, as President Donald Trump goes on the offensive against big tech platforms like Twitter and Facebook, said lawyers and technologists surveyed…
Continue ReadingBlockTower Capital, a digital asset hedge fund, managed to more than double its lifetime return in the first four months of 2020, according to investors and documents reviewed by CoinDesk.…
Continue ReadingTop Shelf Base-Layer TechGoogle is teaming up with Theta Labs to help the video delivery network onboard users through Google Cloud. As part of the partnership, the tech giant is assisting Theta…
Continue ReadingWe’re happy to be back after a recharging long weekend. Let’s get to the news. India’s central bank has clarified its crypto stance, Tencent is looking to invest in “emerging…
Continue ReadingNews ‘Diet’ Laszlo Hanyecz has the honor of conducting the first commercial Bitcoin transaction: trading 10,000 bitcoin for about $30 worth of pizza. Ten years later, those bitcoin would be…
Continue ReadingTop Shelf Yesterday, some of the earliest mined bitcoin moved after more than a decade of dormancy. Whale Alert – a popular, mostly-automated Twitter account that tracks major crypto transactions…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s network difficulty adjusted downwards today, making older mining machines profitable once again, while Tokensoft distributed $4 million in tokenized equity to investors and technology firms are calling upon the…
Continue ReadingToday, BlockFi disclosed a SIM-swapping attack that revealed personal information related to a large swath of the firm’s clients. While customer funds are secure, BlockFi said, their names and addresses…
Continue ReadingFalconX raised an inflation-adjusted equivalent to Facebook‘s 2005 Series A, Bakkt has unveiled $600 million in total insurance cover and Andressen Horowitz anticipates another age of growth. Crypto trading platform…
Continue ReadingTop Shelf Consensus: Distributed ended on a high note with a keynote address from Juan Benet, founder of Protocol Labs, who granted a rare interview as he closed out the week-long…
Continue ReadingTop Shelf The sun rises on the last day of Consensus: Distributed, our first foray into the world of virtual events. We’ve heard from former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers describe the…
Continue ReadingTop Shelf It seems like enterprise blockchain is between finding its “killer app” and being killed. “Everyone had a killer app three years ago. That was the state of blockchain…
Continue ReadingTop Shelf On Wednesday we learned that less than a 1% of the total suspicious activity reports filed with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network since 2013 were crypto-related. Speaking at a workshop on FATF’s…
Continue ReadingTop Shelf Progress must keep pace with need. An overriding theme during day three of Consensus: Distributed was that the pace of technological development – driven by interconnected but diffuse…
Continue ReadingThings are settling in on the third day of Blockchain Week. Tuesday saw Nym’s Harry Halpin give an in-depth demonstration on how to shield your transactions, while Vitalik Buterin walked back…
Continue ReadingTop Shelf The world is growing more comfortable with the idea of digital assets, with several nations stepping forward today to discuss the designs of central bank digital currency (CBDC)…
Continue ReadingAs the sun rises on the second day of Consensus: Distributed, CoinDesk TV will draw to a close. We kicked off our virtual event with a 24-hour non-stop live stream featuring more…
Continue ReadingWe’re not even halfway through the first full day of Consensus: Distributed, and the world may never be the same. The most ambitious conference of its kind kicked off with…
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