Monthly Archives: June 2019

news Bitcoin’s price continued a downward trend Thursday, falling nearly $1,000 in a 20-minute period according to data from Coinbase Pro, which indicated the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market cap dropped from $11,700 at 16:05 UTC to $10,800 by 17:44 UTC. While the price briefly stabilized, it fell as far as $10,346, according to Coinbase…

news Bitcoin is in motion today and no one knows if we are watching a bull market or a blip. Join CoinDesk editors for an all-day live session of in-depth market discussion. Image via Shutterstock.

news Facebook is looking to hire more than 30 professionals to ramp up its blockchain work, including the Libra cryptocurrency. The social media giant’s career website now lists 31 job openings requiring some blockchain expertise. Six of them are for Calibra, Facebook’s wallet app for Libra. These are all jobs for data scientists and engineers,…

news Crypto exchange Gemini is opening a Chicago office as part of a fresh push into the nascent institutional market. The exchange announced Thursday that it was hiring five employees as part of this effort. An individual familiar with the situation told CoinDesk that the team was recruited from a group of former Coinbase engineers,…

news Bitcoin’s biggest flaw is its lack of privacy, said Edward Snowden at the Bitcoin 2019 conference. The cybersecurity expert noted the importance of privacy as a source of liberty. “The lack of privacy is an existential threat to bitcoin. Is the only protection users have from political change,” Snowden said. Snowden also stated that…

news tZERO has launched a new app that combines a digital wallet with exchange services. The company, funded by Medici Ventures, launched a security token trading platform last January. The app, called the tZERO Crypto App, will also users to trade bitcoin and ethereum and includes a private key recovery system that will keep coins…