Below $7K: Bitcoin Price Looks Indecisive After 19-Day Low

news Until now the National Security Agency (NSA) has restricted its activities in the crypto space (as far as we know) to tracking bitcoin users, but now the agency may be working to develop its own. According to a tweet from Bloomberg cybersecurity reporter William Turton, the director of the NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate, Anne Neuberger, said at the…

One sliver of the crypto market seems to be rebounding: staking. Despite the doom and gloom cast over the entire blockchain industry after the cascading crisis that was 2022 and the fact that the global economy is in uncharted territory, as noted by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at Jackson Hole, proof-of-stake (PoS) revenue generation

news Better regulation is needed around bitcoin markets before they can be traded on major exchanges, the head of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said on Thursday. Speaking at CNBC’s Delivering Alpha conference, SEC Chairman Jay Clayton said investors are “sorely mistaken” if they think bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies undergo the same price discovery…

Jun 19, 2020 at 15:28 UTCOpenZeppelin Discloses ‘High Severity Vulnerability’ in DeFi Wallet ArgentA “high severity vulnerability” was found and patched in Ethereum wallet Argent, according to leading white-hat hackers OpenZeppelin. Disclosed Friday, OpenZeppelin security researcher Alice Henshaw discovered a vulnerability within Argent that would have allowed user funds to be drained from wallets that…

Sep 15, 2020 at 10:49 UTCLagos, Nigeria (Jaxons/Getty Images)Nigeria’s SEC Says All Crypto Assets Are Securities by DefaultThe chief financial watchdog of Nigeria will treat cryptocurrencies and token offerings as forms of security until proven otherwise. In a statement signed Friday, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Africa's most populous country said all crypto…

Jun 12, 2020 at 15:04 UTCUpdated Jun 12, 2020 at 15:44 UTCRussia's Supreme Court (Credit: Shutterstock/E. O.)Russia’s Supreme Court Makes ‘Landmark’ Vote With Blockchain System From Kaspersky LabRussia’s Supreme Court for the first time used a blockchain-based system to record votes in a plenary session on Friday. According to a press release, judges used the…

Oct 21, 2020 at 21:04 UTCUpdated Oct 21, 2020 at 21:06 UTCWhite House Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow (Alex Wong/Getty Images)U.S. administration officials and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi broached the possibility of passing the pandemic-relief package after the Nov. 3 election, indicating that a deal might not be able to be reached before then, the Wall…

Dec 20, 2019 at 01:18 UTCBitcoin miners image via CoinDesk archivesLiquidity provider GSR is introducing derivative products to help crypto mining companies hedge their risks against price volatility after partnering with Interhash, a mining services startup backed by Canaan Creative. The companies announced on Friday that a new set of derivatives contracts, including swaps, would help…

Mar 17, 2020 at 06:00 UTCMakerDAO CEO Rune Christensen image via CoinDesk archivesMakerDAO’s Problems Are a Textbook Case of Governance FailureCathy Barrera, a CoinDesk columnist, is a Founding Economist at Prysm Group, an economic advisory group, and was Chief Economist at ZipRecruiter. She has a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard. The MakerDAO network is currently…