Avalanche Blockchain’s X and C Networks See Brief Outage

Aug 21, 2020 at 19:00 UTCWinter Is Coming: Examining the Economy’s Eight-Body ProblemFrom the devastation of the service industry to never-ending central bank intervention, these factors make predicting the future of the economy nearly impossible. For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts,…

markets View Bitcoin’s weekly moving average convergence divergence (MACD) histogram is reporting strongest bearish bias since December, suggesting the cryptocurrency may soon dive out of a narrowing price range.  Daily chart indicators are also biased bearish. A range breakdown, if confirmed, would open the doors for a drop below $9,000. A range breakout would imply…

German authorities shut down dozens of crypto platforms they say were connected to the illicit movement of assets. The exchanges weren't properly tracking their customers' activity, according to the Federal Criminal Police Office. The German Attorney General's Office Frankfurt am Main (Generalstaatsanwaltschaft) and the country’s Federal Criminal Police Office (BKA) have shut down 47 crypto

BlackRock's spot bitcoin ETF did not draw any investor money on Wednesday, the first such instance since the fund's inception three months ago.Inflows have slowed this month, taking the wind out of the bitcoin bull run.BlackRock’s spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), which trades under the ticker IBIT on Nasdaq, fell out of favor on Wednesday

May 7, 2020 at 17:43 UTCUpdated May 7, 2020 at 17:44 UTCConsensus:DistributedThe Changemaker: Glen Weyl Puts His Radical Ideas Into ActionCOVID-19 is the great leveler. Glen Weyl, like all of us, is cooped up in his apartment. “Love? The bleach stuff is fine for downstairs, I think,” he says to his wife from the other end…

It appears crypto investors have been enjoying time away from the trading desk during the late summer months.With some exceptions (a flurry of excitement around potential bitcoin spot ETFs and trading enforcing upper and lower price support levels), they appear to be less focused on their holdings and more focused on other matters, including taking

Sam Bankman-Fried began his testimony like the brilliant former golden boy from crypto’s better days. He ended the longest, strangest, most torturous day yet of his criminal trial more imperiled than ever before.“Part of the problem is that the witness has what I'll simply call an interesting way of responding to questions,” Judge Lewis Kaplan

Shaurya is the Deputy Managing Editor for the Data & Tokens team, focusing on decentralized finance, markets, on-chain data, and governance across all major and minor blockchains.Crypto wallets tied to Alameda Research, the trading unit tied to bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, today received millions of dollars worth of tokens from crypto exchange OKX.Data from the…

Rachel-Rose O’Leary is a cryptocurrency writer and trainee C++ developer at PolyTech. Currently a contributor to CoinDesk and the Defiant newsletter, she has written about cryptocurrency since 2015. She holds an MA in digital art and philosophy. These days I spend most of my time tweaking the code of a bitcoin wallet that runs in…