1 Gigawatt Bitcoin Mine Under Construction in Texas Would Dwarf Bitmain’s

Apr 30, 2020 at 12:10 UTCUpdated Apr 30, 2020 at 12:11 UTC(Credit: Florida National Guard)Binance, Brock Pierce Donate $1M to Puerto Rico’s Covid-19 FightBrock Pierce’s Puerto Rican nonprofit has teamed up with Binance to buy $1 million in personal protective equipment to help fight coronavirus in Puerto Rico. Integro Foundation – run by one-time bitcoin billionaire…

Over the weekend, former U.S. President and current Republican nominee Donald Trump and a number of lawmakers spoke at the Bitcoin Nashville conference. The biggest piece of news everyone has been talking about was Trump and Sen. Cynthia Lummis' proposals to create a strategic reserve for Bitcoin, but the event also served as Sen. Tim

Markets Daily Crypto RoundupWith crypto markets trading sideways near all-time-highs and a look at how we may already be living in a post-scarcity world, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back with the latest news roundup.Listen on:

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has revealed the names of five entities who have won participation in its stablecoin issuer sandbox. Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong), Animoca Brands Ltd., JINGDONG Coinlink Technology Hong Kong Limited, RD InnoTech Limited and Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT) Limited are the other five entities. A day after the Hong Kong

Dec 30, 2019 at 10:39 UTCUpdated Dec 30, 2019 at 10:40 UTCThis post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Jason Goldberg is founder of OST, which powers the ethereum application layer, and Pepo, an app where people…

feature Online payments giant PayPal has made its first-ever investment in a blockchain technology company. Announced today, PayPal has joined the extension of a Series A funding round in Cambridge Blockchain, a startup that helps financial institutions and other companies manage sensitive data using shared ledgers. Neither PayPal nor Cambridge Blockchain disclosed the investment amount, but…

As we at CoinDesk woke up Friday morning and looked forward to a weekend of rest and recuperation away from the crypto grind, Bloomberg’s Editorial Board published a fierce opinion piece attacking the industry we cover (warts and all). It did so quite clumsily. The piece, “Harris and Trump Shouldn't Pander to the Crypto Crowd,”

news A judge has struck down a libel lawsuit against Roger Ver, an early bitcoin investor, that was filed by Satoshi Nakamoto claimant Craig Wright. Wright alleged that Ver defamed him in a YouTube that was published in mid-April, in which Ver denounced Wright’s claim to be bitcoin’s anonymous creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. The video was…

news Bolsa de Madrid (BME), Spain’s largest stock exchange, said it expects to go live by year-end with a blockchain-based system for certifying collateral pledges after testing the technology. The test “has shown a reduction in the total times of end-to-end processes exceeding 80 percent,” BME said Thursday, as well as the potential to radically…