Avalanche Blockchain’s X and C Networks See Brief Outage

news The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is temporarily suspending trading of shares in a little-known, self-described crypto exchange and mining firm called Bitcoin Generation (BTGN). The regulator announced Monday that it was suspending trading until 11:59 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time on May 10, 2019 (or 03:59 UTC May 11) due to concerns that…

news Huobi, the third largest cryptocurrency exchange by monthly trading volume, has hired a senior professional from a major U.S.-based global bank. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Elaine Sun Ye Lin, former head of compliance for the Chinese branch of State Street, joined the Singapore-based exchange as a compliance director last month. According to Huobi spokesperson Jiayi Li,…

Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Prices: Bitcoin remained below $27K, but an analyst says that the largest crypto by market value is in an "accumulation phase."Insights: BRC-20 tokens reach toward a $500 million market cap, and Glassnode data shows that they continue to be a lucrative source of fees for miners.Bitcoin Hits an "Accumulation Phase"Crypto prices…

Jun 8, 2020 at 18:03 UTCUpdated Jun 9, 2020 at 14:29 UTCBitcoin’s Forks Have Trounced Bitcoin This YearWhile bitcoin has outperformed gold and the S&P 500 index in 2020, data shows even better returns among leading bitcoin “fork” cryptocurrencies. These cryptocurrencies are created by copying the Bitcoin source code repository through a process called “forking.”…

Nov 5, 2020 at 08:11 UTCUpdated Nov 5, 2020 at 08:44 UTCBitcoin prices since Jan. 1 2020(CoinDesk BPI)Bitcoin’s price rally is powering on despite the U.S. elections being as yet undecided. The top cryptocurrency by market value jumped to a 33-month high of $14,558 soon before press time, taking the year-to-date gains to 101%, according…

markets Amidst a decline in the price of bitcoin, the world’s most valuable cryptocurrency could find support at $7,500 – that is if it follows past patterns on the charts. Bitcoin has faced selling pressure over the last few days, despite an impending golden crossover on the three-day chart – a bullish crossover of the…

Jan 19, 2020 at 15:06 UTCUpdated Jan 19, 2020 at 16:08 UTCThe best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss decentralization in blockchain projects, the historical context of decentralized organizations, the robustness it conveys but also the difficulties it engenders. On today's podcast,…

Daniel Kuhn is a deputy managing editor for Consensus Magazine. He owns minor amounts of BTC and ETH.This weekend, a pseudonymous developer known as Punk3700 made cryptocurrency history by launching what he calls the first smart contract written on Bitcoin. It’s the type of technical achievement – crafted in the bespoke programming language, Solidity –…

Paradigm, the venture capital firm led by Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam, filed a legal brief supporting prediction market platform Kalshi in its suit against the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).In the case, filed in November, Kalshi asked the court to vacate the CFTC's denial of its bid to list contracts on which party will control