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Aug 13, 2020 at 20:09 UTCUpdated Aug 13, 2020 at 20:49 UTCFederal Reserve Board Governor Lael Brainard said the U.S. central bank has been experimenting with a digital dollar. (Federal Reserve/Wikimedia Commons)The Federal Reserve Is Experimenting With a Digital DollarThe U.S. Federal Reserve is actively investigating distributed ledger technologies and how they might be used…

Bitcoin (BTC) is experiencing selling pressure at the $28,000 price level, and miners may be responsible, crypto-services provider Matrixport said in a report Friday.Matrixport said it suspects that bitcoin miners are being forced to liquidate any new inventory produced because profit margins have compressed in recent weeks, the report said.Mining has become very competitive, and…

Shiba Inu will launch a new privacy-focused network on top of the Shibarium blockchain in a move that boosts the value proposition of SHIB tokens, a representative shared with CoinDesk in a release on Wednesday.Shiba Inu is working with open-source cryptography company Zama on the yet-unnamed network. The exact mechanism is called Fully Homomorphic Encryption

Bitcoin mining might soon gain a new player: telecommunication giant Deutsche Telekom, the parent company of one of the largest U.S. telcos, T-Mobile."We will engage in digital monetary photosynthesis soon," Dirk Röder, Head of web3 infrastructure and solutions of T-Mobile's Telekom MMS, said during the BTC Prague conference last week. When asked by the conference

Thailand’s Kasikorn Bank, also known as K-Bank, said it has acquired 97% shares in the parent company of Satang crypto exchange, which has operated in the country since 2017.According to a filing, the deal has a valuation of 3.705 billion Thai baht ($102.8 million) and was done via a new K-Bank subsidiary called Unita Capital

Aptos Labs, a layer 1 blockchain started by former Facebook employees to bring the company's scrapped Diem project (formerly Libra) to life, is expanding its tools and services using Microsoft's artificial intelligence (AI) tech.According to a press release, Aptos is leveraging Microsoft's infrastructure to deploy new offerings that combine AI and blockchain, including a new…

The global custody bank's tech and product teams are keen to transform securities lending into a peer-to-peer market, but not all are on board.

After three weeks of listening, recording and talking bitcoin (BTC) in Africa, podcaster Anita Posch is back in part 2 of her six-part documentary podcast series. Presented in audio and full written transcript below. Listen/subscribe to the CoinDesk Podcast feed for unique perspectives and fresh daily insight with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, IHeartRadio or RSS.In this second part of the…

Much of the world takes water for granted. And much of the world has so little water that it’s a matter of life and death.So how can we send water from areas of surplus to areas of need? This is the mission of Atlantis, a project devoted to solving issues stemming from climate change, focusing