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Bitcoin Demand Pushes Tether Below $1 for Longest Stretch Since March
18.5.2020
Tether, the oldest and largest stablecoin tied to the U.S dollar, has fallen below par value for the longest stretch since bitcoin dropped to 12-month lows in March
Uniswap V2 Launches With More Token-Swap Pairs, Oracle Service, Flash Loans
18.5.2020
The headline feature of the new Uniswap will be the ability for anyone to create any pool pair they want, so long as it exists on Ethereum
Bug Forces Shutdown of Bitcoin-Backed Ethereum Token tBTC
18.5.2020
Thesis shut down tBTC after two days on due to a bug, and plans to release details once all users have withdrawn their funds
Blockchain Bites: a16z’s Cyclic Crypto Thinking and Grin’s Grim Outlook
18.5.2020
FalconX brought in an equivalent to Facebook's 2005 Series A while Grin flounders and a16z asks if crypto's on the cusp of a boom period
The American Empire Is in Decline. Time for a New Economic System
18.5.2020
From debt to inequality, the U.S. economy looks like a 1930s disaster waiting to happen. No wonder gold-bugs and Bitcoiners are feeling vindicated
Bitcoin News Roundup for May 18, 2020
18.5.2020
BTC can't seem to break $10K while JK Rowling gets an earful. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast
Winners and Losers in the US’s $1,200 Check Blitz
18.5.2020
Wealth and age determine when and how 250 million Americans get their stimulus payments, says our columnist J.P. Koning
Andreessen Horowitz Forecasts Fourth Crypto Bull Cycle
18.5.2020
a16z says high quality projects in the past cycle (some being startups in its own portfolio) will drive growth in the next
Bakkt Announces New Insurance Coverage, Claims More Than 70 Custody Clients
18.5.2020
Bakkt has onboarded 70 clients to its custody services, and signed a deal with insurance broker Marsh to provide customers with an optional extra $500 million of coverage
First Mover: Bitcoin Rally Sends Message to Capitalists as Despair on Wall Street Grows
18.5.2020
Bitcoin's recent price rally and industry optimism contrast with the downbeat tone in the U.S. stock market. Even Visa's CEO says digital currencies could be "additive to the payments ecosystem."
Bitcoin Battles for $10K as Gold Prints Over 7-Year High
18.5.2020
Bitcoin's upward move looks to have stalled amid gold's rally to 7.5-year highs. But analysts think it's only a matter of time before bitcoin begins drawing stronger haven demand
Accel, Coinbase Join $17M Pre-Seed Round for Institutional Crypto Trading Firm FalconX
18.5.2020
The crypto trading firm pitched investors on the basis that its best trade execution platform offers institutions a solution to the wash trading that is rife in the space
Crypto Long & Short: Mining Derivatives Point to Growing Sophistication
18.5.2020
Noelle Acheson picks apart trends in global interest and trust in crypto asset technology, and revisits the growing financialization of bitcoin mining
18 Months In, Few People Use, Mine or Buy Privacy Coin Grin
18.5.2020
Despite launching with considerable fanfare in early 2019, grin, the first cryptocurrency to test privacy protocol MimbleWimble, is showing no signs of life
Trading Contest on Synthetix Aims to Showcase Speed of New DEX Tech
18.5.2020
Synthetix is putting over $40,000 in crypto on the line to entice users to try out the faster beta of its decentralized exchange (DEX)
Blockchain Bites: Last Day of Consensus, Will Crypto Save the Internet?
16.5.2020
It broke J.K. Rowling's Time Line
JK Rowling Asks About Bitcoin. Accursed Crypto Twitter Scares Her Off
15.5.2020
It took only three (3) hours for Crypto Twitter to scare JK Rowling away from bitcoin
Market Wrap: Bitcoin Dips as Stock Markets Close Lower on the Week
15.5.2020
Bitcoin attempted to recover from a price dip on Friday as global stock indexes end the week lower
Where Bitcoin Fits in the New Monetary Order
15.5.2020
The third part of The Breakdown’s Money Reimagined series looks at the role of bitcoin and USD stablecoins in the new global monetary order
37 Questions for Cosmos’ Sunny Aggarwal
15.5.2020
Tendermint and Cosmos developer (and part-time pirate) Sunny Aggarwal is the latest intriguing soul to take the CoinDesk Confesssional questionnaire