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Sep 17, 2020 at 10:56 UTCUpdated Sep 17, 2020 at 11:04 UTCJames Emmett, MD at Libra Networks (courtesy Libra Association)The Libra Association, the organisation developing the Facebook-led cryptocurrency payments project, has hired a banking heavyweight to help drive the initiative forward. The Geneva, Switzerland-based organisation announced Thursday that former HSBC executive James Emmett will take…

Mar 31, 2020 at 19:00 UTCUpdated Mar 31, 2020 at 19:43 UTCNic Carter: ‘If You’re Not Radicalized, You’re Not Paying Attention’Castle Island Ventures and Coin Metrics co-founder Nic Carter joins @NLW to discuss cascading crises, crypto dollarization and the state of the bitcoin narrative.For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m.…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Brandy covers crypto-related venture capital deals for CoinDesk. Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Ledger has raised most of a €100 million ($109 million) funding round at a €1.3 billion ($1.4…

Colombia-based stablecoin protocol El Dorado said Tuesday it completed a $3 million seed venture capital investment round to build a crypto payments "superapp" for the Latin American region.Multicoin Capital was the lead investor, with crypto exchange Coinbase's venture capital arm Coinbase Ventures, UC Berkeley Skydeck and Awesome People Ventures also participating in the round.19:02Sen. Lummis

Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He doesn’t own any crypto.Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash,…

Apr 6, 2020 at 01:00 UTCUpdated Apr 6, 2020 at 01:03 UTCPwC Global Crypto Lead Henri Arslanian image via CoinDesk archivesCrypto companies kept buying each other last year even as both M&A and funding deal flow in the industry took a dive, according to a report released Monday by PwC.On the M&A side, crypto-native acquirers…

Jan 9, 2021 at 3:27 p.m. UTCHistorical bitcoin mining difficulty and priceBitcoin Mining Difficulty Hits Record High Amid Miner Revenue SurgeBitcoin’s mining difficulty just reached a record high above 20.6 trillion as more people are mining at a larger scale than ever before thanks to ballooning mining revenue and bitcoin’s parabolic price rally. “A new…

Base, the layer 2 blockchain backed by Coinbase (COIN), averaged a record high of 15.88 transactions per second (TPS) over the past 24-hours, beating Ethereum and rival layer 2 blockchains Arbitrum and Optimism, according to l2beat.The 15.88 TPS figure marks a 156% rise over the past weeks as investors flock to Base to gain access…

Mar 10, 2020 at 15:00 UTCUpdated Mar 10, 2020 at 15:41 UTCRichard Craib, Numerai's founder, speaks in New York City, April 2019. (Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk)Numerai is opening its Erasure protocol to the world.Erasure is a smart contract on Ethereum for people to share information and to express confidence about that information by…