A New Crypto Bear Market Begins: CoinDesk Quarterly Review 2021 Q2

news New cryptocurrencies are coming to the European and American subsidiaries of BitFlyer. According to a release from the exchange today, bitFlyer Europe is adding buy and sell trades for bitcoin cash (BCH), ethereum classic (ETC), litecoin (LTC), lisk (LSK) and monacoin (MONA). bitFlyer USA is adding bitcoin cash, ethereum classic, and litecoin to its…

A new political philosophy has entered the chat.“Plurality,” the title and central subject of a new book by Microsoft’s internal economist Glen Weyl and Taiwan’s former (as of yesterday) Minister of Digital Affairs Audrey Tang, is the idea that collaboration-enhancing technologies should be more widely embraced both by the public and state. Societies should learn

opinion Massimo Morini is a veteran in investment banks and financial institutions including the World Bank. Some of his research on blockchain was reported here and here. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  The end of 2018 is not the end of a year. It is the end of a decade, a decade that changed the…

Mar 19, 2020 at 20:44 UTCAs bitcoin (BTC) experiences vertigo-inducing gains, cryptocurrencies are breaking out of a period where they followed or even lagged behind traditional markets. In fact, prices in the crypto market are seeing such a steep upward trend that arbitrage traders are able to trade between Bitfinex and other exchanges to easily…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest Prices(CoinDesk)Top StoriesBitcoin stabilized around the $58,000 mark after the U.S. Federal Reserve kept the benchmark interest rate unchanged on Wednesday. Chair Powell said the economy is too

Grayscale, the investment firm behind one of the largest spot bitcoin ETFs (GBTC), has introduced Wednesday a new digital asset fund that invests in artificial intelligence-focused (AI) tokens. The Grayscale Decentralized AI Fund is accessible to accredited investors, and "was designed to capture the growth of protocols at the intersection of blockchain and artificial intelligence,"

Jan 3, 2021 at 9:06 a.m. UTCUpdated Jan 3, 2021 at 9:52 a.m. UTC(Elen 11/iStock/Getty Images Plus)Bitcoin Blasts Past $34K for First Time, Less Than 24 Hours After Blowing Through $30KAnother day, another $1,000-plus increase in bitcoin’s price, bringing the leading cryptocurrency’s combined gains this new year to about $5,000.The price of the leading cryptocurrency…

Dec 13, 2019 at 09:00 UTCUpdated Dec 13, 2019 at 08:16 UTCMongolian taxi riders can now pay their drivers in stablecoins routed through the Terra blockchain.In a press release Thursday, Terra announced its stablecoin issuance protocol would act as Mongolian messaging app memeChat’s new financial backbone. That app, which has attracted 50,000 users since its…

A new book by biographer Michael Lewis adds to allegations of mismanagement at the FTX crypto exchange.Lewis’ account of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s rise and fall comes out Tuesday.Crypto tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried saw billions of dollars in missing funds in his financial empire as a “rounding error,” biographer Michael Lewis told CBS’s 60 Minutes aired