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These new features don’t grab headlines every day, but the improvements they make to the Bitcoin network’s privacy, tooling and complex transaction logic are building a stronger foundation.Bitcoin Core has released v 0.21.0.(Rost-9D/ iStock/Getty Images Plus)Jan 14, 2021 at 9:57 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 14, 2021 at 10:17 p.m. UTCBitcoin Core’s Latest Release Is Out: Here’s…

feature Lebanon is far from a poster child for cryptocurrency adoption. News of Lebanese banks shuttering to prevent a bank run was met with predictable enthusiasm from the global bitcoin commentariat. People in Lebanon can no longer send foreign currencies, mainly dollars and euros, abroad. Further, due to heavily restricted banking access and limited liquidity…

news The Takeaway: According to a new report from Electric Capital, open-source crypto projects have lost developers, but thanks to the industry’s most committed technologists, total activity has stayed relatively constant since the late-2017 boom. Lower-market-cap crypto projects have lost the most developers, while promising sectors like decentralized finance and infrastructure projects have been gaining…

It should come as no surprise that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is not jumping on the ether (ETH) exchange-traded fund (ETF) bandwagon. Yesterday, the agency punted on BlackRock’s ETH ETF proposal, filed initially in November, a few months after the asset manager unexpectedly decided to try to launch a spot bitcoin fund.This

Credit: Shutterstock/Joseph SohmOpen interest for CME bitcoin futures made a new all-time high of just under $500 million on Friday, the third consecutive day of open interest records this week. Significant growth in CME futures demonstrates the intensifying contest between the stalwart institutional trading platform and crypto-native derivatives exchanges like BitMEX. Over the past month, CME’s…

Stablecoin issuer Tether has frozen funds in 32 cryptocurrency addresses linked to terrorism and warfare in Israel and Ukraine, according to a Monday press release.Tether said that it has been working with Israel's National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing (NBCTF) to counter cryptocurrency-funded terrorism and warfare. By freezing a wallet, Tether restricts the "send USDT"

news Cryptocurrency mining is now an official industrial activity in Iran after winning approval from the country’s cabinet. In a session on Sunday, chaired by the country’s president, Hassan Rouhani, cabinet ministers endorsed the activity and said industry participants would need to seek the required licenses from the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade, the Mehr…

Feb 26, 2020 at 18:37 UTCAt around 13:00 UTC, bitcoin's (BTC) price began dropping steadily, contributing to a 7 percent slide over the past 24 hours. Exchanges including Coinbase and Bitstamp saw declines in prices from $9,270 to below $8,700. Crossing below the $9,000 price level is a new low for February 2020. Bitcoin has…

In Q4 2020, the company raised $3.3 billion across its cryptocurrency investment vehicles.Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk archives)Jan 17, 2021 at 8:11 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 17, 2021 at 8:40 p.m. UTCGrayscale Raises $700M+ in a Day, Its Largest Daily Asset Raise EverMichael Sonnenshein, CEO of digital asset manager Grayscale Investments, tweeted the firm raised more…