Bitcoin News Roundup for March 25, 2020

Follow usGet the Latest from CoinDeskSign up for our newsletterDailyMarketsInstitutionalBy signing up, you will receive emails about CoinDesk products and you agree to our terms & conditions and privacy policyPlease enter a valid email address

Aug 26, 2020 at 17:38 UTCUpdated Aug 26, 2020 at 17:56 UTCBlockchain firm Coda Protocol announced the launching of its node operator mentorship program on Wednesday.  In a press statement emailed to CoinDesk, the firm said that in order to train people to run nodes it would pair them with “technical ambassadors” from its team,…

Coinbase users reported that their account balances showed $0 after bitcoin saw significant gains prior on Wednesday.The exchange said it was investigating the issue shortly after.At least some customers of Coinbase's U.S. cryptocurrency exchange are showing $0 account balances Wednesday as bitcoin (BTC) posted – and then quickly erased – a gigantic rally.The exchange said

The spot bitcoin ETF approval has triggered an increase in interest among Goldman's clients.The banking giant is expanding the offerings to asset managers, bank clients and certain digital asset firms.Hedge fund clients of U.S. banking giant Goldman Sachs (GS) have become more active in crypto options trading this year, Bloomberg reported on Monday.After a quieter

news Cryptocurrency mining giant Bitmain has launched a new miner for the privacy-oriented cryptocurrency zcash, which it claims, has three times more hashing power than its predecessor. Announcing the news on Tuesday, Bitmain says the new ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit), called the Antminer Z11, is designed to mine cryptocurrencies that are based on the Equihash algorithm,…

Blockstream started a third round of sales for its tokenized note, BMN2 The round will be priced at $31,000 and give investors a share of the bitcoin produced by the mining company. The hashrate-backed note allows investors to lock in the hashprice for up to four years, Blockstream said. 02:28 What Bitcoin's 2024 Halving Means

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has made an exception, allowing institutional investors and very high-net-worth individuals to invest in crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs).The SEC will now allow asset managers to invest in spot bitcoin (BTC) ETFs on U.S. exchanges, said Pornanong Budsaratragoon, the SEC’s Secretary-General, on Monday.Spot bitcoin ETFs are classified as securities rather

Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk's advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers. Cash appears to be disappearing from China's teeming cities. Foreign tourists talk of struggling to…

news “Let’s untangle that a bit,” says Meltem Demirors, the chief strategy officer of CoinShares. “Bitcoin represents three different things.” In this episode of Bitcoin Macro, one of the most prolific voices in the space speaks with CoinDesk’s head of strategy, Nolan Bauerle, about bitcoin as software, as a “supranational global communication network” and as…