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Bitcoin Approaches $7K as U.S. Passes New $480B Stimulus Package
22.4.2020
Bitcoin has risen back close to $7,000 as the U.S. Senate's approval of new coronavirus stimulus package buoys stocks
First Mover: What the Oil Price Collapse Means for Bitcoin’s Halving Valuation
22.4.2020
What does the crash in black gold mean for digital gold in the important weeks ahead?
Miners Trick Stablecoin Protocol PegNet, Turning $11 Into Almost $7M Hoard
22.4.2020
The millions in tokens were later destroyed, painting a confusing picture of the attacker's motives
Everledger Offers Diamond Industry Blockchain-Based Carbon Offsetting
22.4.2020
Track-and-trace blockchain pioneer Everledger is using its technology to help the diamond industry offset its carbon footprint
Gemini Clears New Deloitte Audit in Bid to Appeal to Wall Street
22.4.2020
Gemini’s exchange and custody services have cleared yet another systems design check
UK’s Tech Bailout Could Help Blockchain Devs Weather COVID-19 Shutdown
22.4.2020
Britain’s new “Future Fund” relief package will help tech firms, including blockchain companies like Chainvine
Charlie Lee
22.4.2020
Charlie Lee is the creator of litecoin and the managing director for the Litecoin Foundation. Born in Ivory Coast, West Africa, Lee immigrated to the United States at age 13. Lee announced litecoin on Bitcointalk, a bitcoin forum initially created by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2011 while working...
Bittrex Exec Joins Mortgage Giant Fannie Mae After Crypto Exchange’s Brush With NYDFS
22.4.2020
Reversing the pattern of government veterans jumping to crypto startups, Bittrex US’s former chief compliance and ethics officer has moved to Fannie Mae
Market Wrap: Oil in Turmoil, Bitcoin Gains Slightly to $6.9K
21.4.2020
While oil futures continue to collapse, bitcoin holds steady, even making gains as the U.S. market closes lower
Bitcoin Can’t Be a Safe Haven and 100x Leverage Is the Reason Why
21.4.2020
Excessive leverage increases bitcoin's volatility and puts off mainstream capital from entering the market, says Vishal Shah
Ripple Sues YouTube for Allowing ‘Scams’ That Promise Free XRP
21.4.2020
Ripple Labs and CEO Brad Garlinghouse are suing YouTube over allegations that the video streaming giant has failed to police its platform against fake XRP giveaway scams, resulting in monetary damage to users and reputational harm to Ripple
‘Long Bitcoin’ It Ain’t: Crypto Traders Make Sense of Renaissance Filing
21.4.2020
How might Renaissance approach bitcoin as an underlying asset, given the hedge fund’s reputation for using mind-bending math to find profits?
CoinDesk Live: Understanding Our Digital Personas feat. Alex McDougall
21.4.2020
“If we don’t fix the data paradigm...we don’t really have free will,” says Alex McDougall of Bicameral Ventures
Dutch Central Bank Wants to Be European Union’s CBDC Proving Ground
21.4.2020
The Dutch Central Bank is making a bid to become the European Union’s proving ground for a central bank digital currency
From Proof of Health to UBI: How Everything Changes Post COVID-19, Feat. Joe McCann
21.4.2020
From domestic manufacturing to economic nationalization by proxy to proof of health on a blockchain, a preview of the decade to come
Multi-Chain DeFi Protocol Raises $750K in Token Sale With Framework Ventures
21.4.2020
DeFi fund Framework Ventures has purchased roughly 5 percent of Kava Labs' outstanding token supply ahead of the CDP platform's launch next month
Blockchain Bites: DeFi Hacker Is Back, Oil Craters and Big Tech Won’t Sue You
21.4.2020
Big Tech vows not to sue developers using their patents to build solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic while a hacker returns funds stolen this weekend
Crypto Payments for Child Porn Grew 32% in 2019: Report
21.4.2020
Nearly $1 million in bitcoin and ethereum flowed into child sexual abuse material-linked wallet addresses in 2019
Bitcoin News Roundup for April 21, 2020
21.4.2020
Bitcoin drops thanks to the oil crisis while a hacker returns $25 million in stolen crypto. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast
Dogecoin
21.4.2020
Dogecoin is a parody cryptocurrency created by Adobe Systems employee Jackson Palmer and programmer Billy Markus in 2013. Its name is derived from the “Doge” meme, whose many iterations usually feature a Shiba Inu dog surrounded by Comic Sans text. The meme gained popularity in 2013...