Bitcoin News Roundup for March 31, 2020

news Grin, a new privacy-oriented cryptocurrency, has long drawn the interest of cypherpunks. But another group turned out in force to mine on the network that formally launched on Tuesday: investment firms. “We have been watching the whole show today. With maybe the most expensive genesis block one in history,” Dovey Wan of Primitive Ventures…

Ripple will allocate $10 million in tokenized U.S. Treasury bills on the XRP Ledger, marking the first issuance of such tokens on the platform. The initiative is part of a broader trend in the crypto industry, where tangible real-world assets and traditional financial securities are being tokenized, enhancing efficiency and attracting major participants like BlackRock.

Boston-based asset management and banking giant State Street (STT) is working on bond and money market fund tokenization, but has no imminent plans to create a stablecoin or tokenized deposits, according to a bank executive. “We don’t have a current plan to issue a stablecoin or tokenise a deposit,” said Donna Milrod, the bank's chief

Aug 6, 2020 at 15:25 UTCUpdated Aug 6, 2020 at 15:36 UTC(Artem Smus/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)German authorities have seized €25 million ($29.6 million) in bitcoin and bitcoin cash from the alleged programmer behind movie2k.to, a massive online pirated film library that once drew the ire of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA). Movie2k.to’s unnamed…

news The Takeaway Prior to publishing details about real Binance customers online Wednesday, a hacker operating under the pseudonym “Bnatov Platon” had a month-long conversation with CoinDesk reporters. In the talks, Platon revealed how he allegedly hacked individuals behind an earlier hack in which 7,000 bitcoin was stolen from the world’s largest exchange. Platon claimed…

news A reminder that CoinDesk will be visiting Tokyo and we’d love to meet some of our readers for an informal gathering on Monday, October 14 at 6 p.m. We’ll be working with CoinDesk Japan on this small and informal event and we know a typhoon is coming so maybe it might not be so…

Don’t count your chickens before they hatch. Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial is well underway, and many are acting like the fight to convict the millennial Charles Ponzi is already won. It is true that the evidence presented so far appears damning, and that the overwhelming majority of criminal cases end in conviction. And there’s much to

Starknet, a layer 2 to the Ethereum blockchain, deployed its "Quantum Leap" upgrade early on Wednesday, designed to increase the number of transactions per second (TPS) and reduce the confirmation times for the blockchain.Quantum Leap was deployed on its Goerli testnet last week, followed by a community vote in which 97.91% of voters agreeed to…

Feb 12, 2020 at 14:25 UTCUpdated Feb 12, 2020 at 14:26 UTCKim Jong-un, supreme leader of North Korea. Credit: Alexander Khitrov / ShutterstockNorth Korea is stepping up mining of the privacy coin monero as the regime continues its efforts to circumvent sanctions.U.S. cybersecurity firm Recorded Future said in a report Sunday that network traffic for…