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Jun 25, 2020 at 08:02 UTCOB1 staff show off OpenBazaar at a 2019 conference. (CoinDesk archives)The COVID-19 E-Commerce Boom Hasn’t Trickled Down to Bitcoin, Despite AdvantagesDespite the COVID-19 e-commerce boom, bitcoin is hardly seeing more merchant usage as a transactional currency than it was five years ago.   “We’ve been doing this for six years and…

This article originally appeared in First Mover , CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day . Latest Prices (CoinDesk) Top Stories Bitcoin rose to over $62,500 following the weekend attack on Donald Trump , which seems to have also boosted the

Oct 30, 2020 at 07:56 UTC(Roman Tiraspolsky/Shutterstock)Remittance firm MoneyGram continues to receive millions in “market development fees” from its investor, blockchain payments firm Ripple.According to MoneyGram's financial results for Q3 2020 posted Thursday, Ripple handed over $9.3 million over the period. After $0.4 million in "transaction and trading expenses," MoneyGram saw a net benefit of…

opinion Pindar Wong is the chairman of VeriFi (Hong Kong) Ltd and a member of CoinDesk’s advisory board. An internet pioneer, he co­founded the first licensed Internet Service Provider in Hong Kong in 1993.  There is a crisis in governance. I’m not talking about bitcoin, but Brexit. Britain’s exit from the European Union (EU) is not so…

The cycle repeats: Someday Bitcoin will outgrow its four-year price cycles. Until then, it's “deja vu all over again.” In the bitcoin bear market of 2014-2015, the price gravitated to around $350 until finally capitulating to $200 and staying there for months. In the bitcoin bear market of 2018-2019, the price gravitated to around $6,000…

news The team behind Samourai, the privacy-focused bitcoin wallet, has removed a series of key security-related features from a version of its app as a result of “extremely restrictive policies” by Google. Having released version 0.99.04 of its app Tuesday on the digital distribution service run by Google, called Google Play, Samourai explained in a…

May 11, 2020 at 11:19 UTCUpdated May 11, 2020 at 16:20 UTCChina leads in the world in the development of national digital currencies. While other central banks are talking about central bank digital currencies (CBDC), the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is already trialling its toolkit. Just recently, screenshots emerged of a “digital yuan” interface…

From developer and decentralized application (dapp) counts to progress along its roadmap to general public awareness, there are many metrics that may be used to measure Ethereum’s progress over time. One of the most popular is transaction count, which is notable not only due to its correlation with items like adoption and fee generation, but…

Mar 24, 2020 at 14:15 UTCUpdated Mar 24, 2020 at 14:25 UTCU.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi introduced the latest version of the relief bill on Monday. (Credit: Michael Candelori / Shutterstock)‘Digital Dollar’ Stripped From Latest US Coronavirus Relief BillMentions of a "digital dollar" in a coronavirus-related relief bill before the U.S. House of…