Bitcoin News Roundup for April 28, 2020

news OB1, the developers behind the online decentralized marketplace and currency trading platform OpenBazaar announced a mobile counterpart called Haven. Haven allows users to buy and sell goods and services directly with each other, using cryptocurrencies, without relying on middlemen who take a cut of merchants’ transactions or gather shoppers’ data. The app is organized…

Scaling, privacy and custody software will all benefit from Bitcoin’s biggest upgrade in years.(Tamanna Rumee/Unsplash)Feb 3, 2021 at 5:17 p.m. UTCHow Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade Will Improve Technology Across Bitcoin’s Software StackBitcoin’s Taproot upgrade is (basically) a shoe-in as Bitcoin stakeholders figure out the best way to bring it online. Digital signatures are created from the private…

Bitcoin (BTC) may break its three-year December winning streak unless prices convincingly cross key resistance at $4,410 in the next few days. The leading cryptocurrency by market value gained 14 percent, 30 percent and 40 percent in the last month of 2015, 2016 and 2017, respectively, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index. (BPI). The odds, however, are…

news CoinDesk will be visiting Buenos Aires tomorrow and we’d love to meet some of our readers for an informal gathering on Friday, August 16 at 6pm. We will meet at AvantGarten, Av. Del Libertador 3883.We’re happy to pick up a few beers and a little food for the group but it sadly won’t be…

The appointment of Richard Teng to oversee Binance’s regional markets outside the U.S. has positioned the one-time Abu Dhabi regulator as the most likely successor to Changpeng Zhou, who founded the world’s largest crypto exchange in 2017.The enhanced role follows a report last month that Zhou, commonly known as CZ, is looking to reduce his…

NEW YORK – A Manhattan jury has found Terraform Labs and its co-founder, Do Kwon, liable on civil fraud charges brought by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in connection with the $40 billion implosion of the Terra ecosystem in May 2022, according to a Friday statement from the SEC.The SEC accused Terraform Labs

In the high-stakes world of sports, strategy is everything. Traditionally, game plans and tactical decisions have been the exclusive domain of coaches and analysts, decided behind closed doors. But imagine a scenario where thousands of passionate fans have a direct say in those crucial calls. Thanks to the rise of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), this

The Web3-AI space is one of the hottest in crypto, combining great promise with significant hype. It almost feels heretical to point out the number of Web3-AI projects with multi-billion dollar market caps but no practical use cases, driven purely by proxy narratives from the traditional AI market. Meanwhile, the gap in AI capabilities between

news U.S. authorities have formally charged the alleged moderators of DeepDotWeb, the dark web comparison and news site seized by the feds, with money laundering, taking illegal kickbacks and other crimes. Police arrested the two Israeli citizens – Tal Prihar, 37, and Michael Phan, 34 — on Monday. Prihar, who lived in Brazil, was taken in…