As No-Deal Brexit Looms, UK Blockchain Startups Are Weighing Options

news Money transfer giant Western Union has teamed up with blockchain startup Coins.ph to enable residents of the Philippines to more easily receive cash remittances. The newly inked deal will see both international and domestic payments made via Western Union’s network arrive directly into the digital wallets held by Coins.ph’s “over 5 million” users, the startup announced late…

Dec 11, 2019 at 19:15 UTCUpdated Dec 11, 2019 at 19:52 UTCJack Dorsey image via CoinDesk archivesSquare Crypto Bankrolls Star Lightning Developer Known as ‘ZmnSCPxj’Square Crypto, the payment startup’s bitcoin development group, has funded a pseudonymous researcher to let him work on the space full-time.Announced Wednesday via Square Crypto’s Twitter account, freelance Lightning and bitcoin…

news Facebook blockchain lead David Marcus told U.S. lawmakers that the social media giant plagued by privacy scandals won’t have access to personal financial information with its new cryptocurrency. In a letter dated Monday to the Senate Banking Committee responding to pointed questions the lawmakers sent in May, Marcus took a diplomatic tone, acknowledging the…

Aug 4, 2020 at 17:00 UTCUpdated Aug 4, 2020 at 17:32 UTC(Michael Dziedzic/Unsplash)Decentralized Exchange dYdX Debuts Ether Perpetual SwapsPerpetual swaps that track the price of ether (ETH) are coming to dYdX, the company announced Tuesday. “The main reason people like trading these contracts is because people can trade them with pretty high leverage,” dYdX founder…

Meet the Yield Farmers Plowing Cryptocurrency’s Riskiest TrendOne is a Grammy Award-winning musician with lots of spare time. Another is a software engineer with nowhere to go during the pandemic. There’s also an editor for a data site and a fund manager who invests in digital assets. What these people have in common is an obscure…

Jul 22, 2020 at 18:33 UTCTotal ETH Option Open Interest (via Skew)Open Interest in Ether Options Jumps to New Record HighInvestor interest in ether options is stronger than ever, possibly due to excitement surrounding Ethereum’s long-awaited protocol change, dubbed ETH 2.0.  Data from major exchanges – Deribit and OKEx – shows that open interest in…

Nov 18, 2020 at 10:54 a.m. UTCUpdated Nov 18, 2020 at 11:07 a.m. UTC(Matej Kastelic/Shutterstock)Bitcoin Indicator Suggests Bull Market Is Still in Early PhaseBitcoin has plenty of scope to extend its current rally, a price indicator suggests, even as the cryptocurrency is fast closing on the record high near $20,000 set three years ago.With prices…

Jun 10, 2020 at 16:00 UTCUpdated Jun 10, 2020 at 17:31 UTCMicrosoft Releases Bitcoin-Based ID Tool as COVID-19 ‘Passports’ Draw CriticismMicrosoft’s Bitcoin-based decentralized identity tool, ION, went live with a beta version on mainnet Wednesday as one of many efforts by members of the Decentralized Identity Foundation (DIF) to fast-track tools anyone can use for…

Web3 games have a shaky track record. It’s easy to see the appeal: There are literally billions of people playing games, and most of them do it for free. They spend countless hours — and often their own cash — to create content that grows the ecosystem, and they get nothing while the gaming companies