Bitcoin News Roundup for April 24, 2020

With bitcoin hovering around $36,000 and Iran’s government blaming crypto miners for recent blackouts, CoinDesk’s Market’s Daily is back with the latest news roundup.Add Markets Daily to your Alexa Flash Briefing here.This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.Today's stories: Prices fell by 6% in the seven days to Jan. 17, a weekly fall not seen since…

Alert readers of The Protocol will remember our smart feature last month on the concept of “restaking” on Ethereum – essentially a way of sharing the blockchain’s security among other protocols and networks. For today’s issue, our Margaux Nijkerk sat down for an interview with Sreeram Kannan, the University of Washington computing professor who now

opinion Ouriel Ohayon is the CEO and co-founder of crypto wallet provider KZen. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  Look at the crypto services you regularly use. Admit it: you aren’t in love. Some of them are OK, most of them are terrible – you know it. I’m not referring…

Asset manager VSFG and Value Partners have together applied for a spot bitcoin ETF in Hong Kong.SFC is likely to allow in-kind creations and redemptions for spot bitcoin ETFs, Bloomberg reported earlier this week.Asset manager VSFG, together with its partner, Value Partners, have applied for a spot-bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) with Hong Kong’s Securities and

A Singapore terrorism threat assessment noted an increasing use of cryptocurrencies in terror financing, though cash and other means remained dominant. The report also said the threat level was elevated since the Israel-Palestine conflict escalated. Singapore's government noted an increasing use of cryptocurrencies in terror financing, even though cash and other informal value transfer systems

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New "BitVM2" paper from Robin Linus and a team of co-authors marks a leap forward from the initial design. Project would rely on advanced cryptography and a novel design to facilitate a secure "bridge" for transferring bitcoins from the main network to auxiliary networks known as "rollups." Unlike the earlier incarnation, BitVM2 is "permissionless," allowing

Bitcoin temporarily surged to as much as $138,000 on crypto exchange Binance.US earlier today in a sudden price wick on the btc/tether trading pair, exchange data shows.Prices shot up to those levels for a few seconds at 6:50 a.m. UTC before immediately reverting to parity with other bitcoin spot markets. Other trading pairs for bitcoin…

Bill Barhydt is the founder and CEO of Abra. This exclusive opinion piece is part of CoinDesk's "Bitcoin at 10: The Satoshi White Paper" series. I remember reading Satoshi Nakamoto's bitcoin white paper for the first time a few weeks after it was released. I also remember the phrase that really grabbed my attention: "We…