Bitcoin Hits Fresh 2020 High

The crypto market is expected to rebound from August onward, the report said. The bank reduced its year-to-date net flow estimate to $8 billion from $12 billion. Bitcoin reserves across exchanges have fallen in the last month due to liquidations by creditors of Mt. Gox and Gemini, and selling by the German government. Crypto liquidations

Jan 14, 2020 at 19:00 UTCUpdated Jan 14, 2020 at 19:56 UTCMatt Hougan image from CoinDesk archivesMore than half of financial advisors in the U.S. are too spooked by regulatory uncertainty to initiate or expand their cryptocurrency investments, a new study by Bitwise Asset Management found.The annual survey, released Tuesday, asked 415 advisors a range…

China’s Open Source Development Has Lessons for the USLex Sokolin, a CoinDesk columnist, is Global Fintech co-head at ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based blockchain software company. The following is adapted from his Fintech Blueprint newsletter. The news cycle is obsessed with a global technology competition between China and the United States. Whether we look at artificial intelligence, 5G,…

news A Russian nuclear lab scientist will serve three years in a prison colony for illegally using government equipment to mine bitcoin. Andrey Rybkin of the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics in Sarov, Russia, was the last employee of three to be sentenced by a local jurisdictional court according to Russian news source…

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.Crypto investors have poured money into bitcoin exchange-traded products at a record pace ever since BlackRock filed for a spot-based ETF on June 15. New data from K33…

Mar 6, 2020 at 11:31 UTCUpdated Mar 6, 2020 at 11:37 UTCBitcoin is staying firmly in the green amid a strong sell-off in traditional markets.The situation contrasts with last week when the top cryptocurrency by market cap had dropped sharply in tandem with equities and bond yields. Bitcoin found bids near $8,800 during Thursday’s Asian trading…

Bitcoin could get better privacy with Taproot, but there's one big obstacle - it can't be deployed until another technology goes through.

news Travelport, a business and consumer travel services provider, announced it is using IBM’s Hyperledger Fabric to guarantee commissions paid to travel agencies. According to a statement released on August 20, the blockchain was designed with input from IBM, travel management company BCD Travel, and three unnamed hotel chains. The system aims to “put the lifecycle…

news Hans-Ole Jochumsen, who retired the last fall as vice chairman of NASDAQ Europe, has joined the advisory board of Concordium Foundation, the Swiss non-profit developing a cryptocurrency with a built-in compliance function. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Jochumsen will guide Concordium’s compliance efforts, providing expertise in taxation, know-your-customer (KYC) practices, and transaction provenance. The stock market…