Bitcoin Miner Bitfarms Closes $15M Brokered Private Placement

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…

Law enforcement around the world has long pointed to China as being a source of deadly fentanyl as well as the precursors used to manufacture it. New research from both Chainalysis and Elliptic have put a number on how much of this trade is done in crypto.Elliptic, which published its report on the topic Tuesday,…

news Market intel from Goldman Sachs suggests investors should capitalize on the current price dip and buy bitcoin. In a series of slides prepared by a technical analysis team and sent out to some institutional clients, Goldman included one that said the short-term target for bitcoin (BTC) is $13,971 and that investors should consider buying…

Blockchain investment company Pantera Capital has launched a new crypto fund with over $71 million already committed.

Dec 23, 2020 at 2:36 p.m. UTCPantera’s Paul Veradittakit’s 2021 PredictionsIt has been an eventful year, to say the least. In terms of blockchain and crypto, we saw several key developments: the halving of Bitcoin, liquidity mining and the explosive growth of several decentralized finance (DeFi) applications, stronger tools for blockchain interoperability and much more. As…

Sep 15, 2020 at 10:00 UTCUpdated Sep 15, 2020 at 10:13 UTCBrock Pierce (CoinDesk archives)U.S. presidential candidate and crypto entrepreneur Brock Pierce was apparently served legal papers relating to a lawsuit alleging securities fraud during his campaign rally in New York on Monday. Video footage posted to Twitter on Tuesday shows Pierce receiving what appear…

Jan 8, 2021 at 2:58 a.m. UTCUpdated Jan 8, 2021 at 2:59 a.m. UTCBakkt President Adam White (CoinDesk archives)Crypto Exchange Bakkt Nears Merger With Victory Park SPAC: BloombergCryptocurrency exchange Bakkt, which is majority owned by Intercontinental Exchange, is in advanced talks to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), Bloomberg…

Dec 17, 2019 at 21:31 UTCUpdated Dec 17, 2019 at 21:44 UTCSean Neville image via CoinDesk archivesPayments startup Circle is pivoting its business to solely offering stablecoin services with the sale of its over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk. As part of the move, the firm confirmed the departure of additional executives, just weeks after co-CEO Sean…

CoinDesk Indices (CDI) presents its bi-weekly market update, highlighting the performance of leaders and laggards in the benchmark CoinDesk 20 Index (CD20) and the broad CoinDesk Market Index (CMI).The CoinDesk 20 declined 1.3% over the past week, with nine of the 20 assets in the gauge slipping more than 4%. The index was helped as