Bitcoin News Roundup for March 13, 2020

Dec 3, 2020 at 1:36 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 3, 2020 at 1:41 p.m. UTCReuters headline embedded in Bitcoin's blockchain(Mempool)In Echo of Bitcoin’s Genesis, Mining Pool Embeds Reuters Headline on the BlockchainA cryptocurrency mining pool has immortalized a potentially iconic Reuters headline on the Bitcoin blockchain. Slush Pool, which recorded block 659678 on the chain on…

news Food and beverage giant PepsiCo has conducted a blockchain trial that brought a 28 percent boost in supply chain efficiency. Dubbed “Project Proton,” the trial set out to examine if blockchain could address “industry challenges” in programmatic advertising. PepsiCo’s project partner and media agency Mindshare announced the news Monday, saying that it assisted in the…

CoinDesk’s annual list of the “Most Influential” people in the cryptocurrency industry has been a year-end holiday tradition since 2014.It’s our way of raising and praising the finest, those shipping the most-used products, onboarding those who need crypto the most and setting a high bar for us all. For a long time we have celebrated…

Aug 4, 2020 at 10:33 UTCUpdated Aug 4, 2020 at 10:35 UTCElizabeth Ralston (Mark Kronov Photography)Bison Trails has hired BlockTower Capital’s former legal and compliance director to be its first general counsel. Elizabeth Ralston will be in charge of all legal, risk, compliance and policy matters at the blockchain infrastructure startup.Prior to her time at…

“We've successfully navigated this crisis, and have actually upgraded the market infrastructure behind USDC to be by far the strongest, safest digital dollar on the internet today, hands down, there's no question,” Allaire said on stage at CoinDesk’s Consensus conference here.

Huobi, the Singapore-based cryptocurrency exchange, has just launched a new solution that enables users to switch between different types of fiat currency-pegged cryptocurrencies, or stablecoins, in event of market fluctuations. Announcing the solution, called HUSD, at a press conference on Friday, the firm said Paxos' PAX, TrustToken's TUSD, Circle's USDC and the Gemini exchange's GUSD…

This month, the Blockchain Association, crypto’s leading trade association in Washington D.C., marks its fifth anniversary. The lobby shop now has 114 member companies, per a press release today, including big names like Coinbase, Kraken, CoinFund, Pantera Capital, Ripple and Uniswap.This is an excerpt from The Node newsletter, a daily roundup of the most pivotal

Jul 16, 2020 at 20:26 UTCZap founder Jack Mallers speaks at the 2019 Lightning Conference in Berlin. (Will Foxley/CoinDesk archives)Lightning startup Zap Inc., maker of both the namesake, non-custodial bitcoin wallet and the payments app Strike, raised its first round in April, led by Green Oaks Capital and including veteran bitcoin investor Anthony Pompliano. The…

Team behind meme-based crypto project Floki said it is taking steps to mitigate concerns of Hong Kong's regulator, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), after placing the token staking program on its list of suspicious investment products."We’ve taken steps to mitigate concerns in jurisdictions where the regulatory framework does not specifically cover or cater for