Bitcoin News Roundup for April 21, 2020

NEWSINBRIEF Tech giant IBM has teamed up with Columbia University to launch a pair of technology accelerators as part of a broader push to spur blockchain development. The IBM Blockchain Accelerator and Columbia Blockchain Launch Accelerator, announced Monday, will support 10 startups each, according to a press release. The two are part of the Columbia-IBM…

news Two U.S. Senators have publicly asked Visa, Stripe, and Mastercard to remove themselves from the Facebook-led cryptocurrency payment network, Libra. Senator Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Sherrod Brown (D-OH) sent three separate letters Tuesday to Visa CEO Alfred F. Kelly Jr., Stripe CEO Patrick Collinson and Mastercard CEO and president Ajaypal Singh Banga over the firms’ participation…

The stakers that have locked more than $12 billion staked on Binance Launchpad received 20 million tokens.ETHFI was trading at $4.13 with an FDV of $4.13 billion.The initial circulating supply is 115.2 million tokens.02:12Three Major Ethereum Stories to Watch in 202400:54Here's Why Ether Could Surge in 202401:53EigenLabs CEO on Building Decentralized Trust Network01:07Ethereum Average Gas

Nov 10, 2020 at 6:35 p.m. UTCVolume Surge Brings 25% Turnover to ‘CoinDesk 20’Goodbye, DAI and bitcoin sv. Hello, kyber and cosmos.A swelling in volume in the crypto markets over the third quarter has changed the list of noteworthy digital assets beyond bitcoin and ether that matter most to traders and investors. That change is…

The Avalanche Foundation, whose grants and investments help support the development of the Avalanche blockchain ecosystem, is considering buying meme coins as part of a drive that recognizes the distinct niches of the cryptocurrency market after a surge in tokens such as bonk (BONK) almost single-handedly kickstarted activity on the Solana network earlier this month.The

It is easy to see digital assets as something completely new. However, they represent a return to a longer-term historical trend of money being far more international than it is today. Stablecoins and digital assets are a means of unshackling money from inherently national payment systems and placing it on the open internet.To illustrate the

Jun 29, 2020 at 16:08 UTC(Geronimo Giqueaux/Unsplash)Byrne Hobart, a CoinDesk columnist, is an investor, consultant and writer in New York. His newsletter, The Diff (diff.substack.com), covers inflection points in finance and technology.  The most optimistic bitcoin investors are hodling out for one thing: the rapturous bitcoin rally known as “hyperbitcoinization.” The hyperbitcoinization thesis goes like…

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Nov 30, 2020 at 2:55 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 30, 2020 at 3:25 p.m. UTCBitcoin Price Sets New Record High Above $19,783After nearly three years of waiting, bitcoin investors can celebrate a new all-time high Monday after the leading cryptocurrency traded as high as $19,786.24, breaking the previous record set in December 2017 by $3, according…