Bitcoin News Roundup for March 30, 2020

Edvard Munch's "The Scream." (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)In early March 2012, three years after the biggest financial disruption in 80 years, with 8% of the U.S. workforce unemployed, with 4 million American homes foreclosed, and with Europe tearing itself apart over fiscal austerity measures to contain a debt crisis, someone forked over $119 million for a…

Jul 16, 2020 at 21:10 UTCUpdated Jul 16, 2020 at 21:16 UTCThe Curv team, with CEO Itay Malinger at center right. (Curv)Custody startup Curv is using the leading lending protocol in decentralized finance (DeFi) to help institutions that want to earn money on idle crypto. By way of the Compound protocol, Curv is offering its…

U.K. parliamentarians have voted through a new bill that could recognize crypto as a regulated activity in the country.The approval of the Financial Services and Markets Bill (FSMB) on Monday by Parliament’s upper chamber, the House of Lords, means the bill is going to enter the final stages before it is put into law.The wide-ranging…

Institutional investors are increasingly getting involved in bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies – while the number of retail investors in the space is staying stagnant – according to a new report by Morgan Stanley. In an update to "Bitcoin Decrypted: A Brief Teach-In and Implications," the global banking giant's research division delved into the last six months of…

Eliza Gkritsi is CoinDesk's crypto mining reporter based in Asia.Solid World takes a step towards financialization of carbon credits on the blockchain with the opening of the first forward carbon assets pool on an automated market maker, with Polygon's support, the company said today in a press release.In the liquidity pool, projects can essentially pre-sell…

Unusually high liquidations on some altcoin futures led by Big Time’s BIGTIME and Ordi Protocol’s ORDI tokens created over $250 million in total altcoin liquidations in the past 24 hours, showcasing the inherent and sudden volatility of the sector.Liquidation refers to when an exchange forcefully closes a trader’s leveraged position due to a partial or

Sam Tabar is Chief Strategist for Bit Digital, a Bitcoin mining company listed on NASDAQ (BTBT).Remember the days when bitcoin (BTC) mining difficulty was still in the single-digit billions, there were almost as many bitcoins to be mined as there were in circulation and you could run a massively profitable operation with a rig of…

Jul 23, 2020 at 21:05 UTCFilecoin founder Juan Benet and Coinbase alum Balaji Srinivasan (CoinDesk archives)Climbing off Twitter on Scaffolds of Truth: Where Srinivasan and Benet DivergeIn the American epic, Lonesome Dove, by Larry McMurtry, there are two characters who can see much further than the other members of their gang: Captain Gus McCrae and…

markets Bitcoin is on the defensive for the fourth straight day, having breached long-term support on Tuesday. The leading cryptocurrency by market value is currently trading at $9,720, representing a 1.1 percent drop from today’s opening price of $9,841, according to Bitstamp data. Prices fell 1.39, 2.56 and 4.66 percent, respectively in the previous three…