Bitcoin Price Move Past $6.5K Would Boost Upside Potential

Blockchain startup AlphaPoint has hired a senior executive from Cboe Global Markets, the parent of the Chicago Board of Exchange. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Kapil Rathi joined AlphaPoint as global head of trading markets,  a newly created position, and will be in charge of the company's trading and exchange business. He was previously Cboe's head of…

The Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation (MiCA) is hailed as a pivotal moment in crypto market regulation. However, a significant misunderstanding exists regarding fiat backed stablecoins in Europe and the anticipated changes under MiCA.Jón Egilsson is a co-founder and the chairman of Monerium. He previously served as vice chair and chairman of the Icelandic Central

OMG, the native token of the OMG Network, climbed to a six-month high after Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin published a blog post on how Plasma, the technology behind the OMG Network, has the potential to reduce transaction fees and improve security.The token rallied 16% to $0.77."Plasma lets us completely sidestep the data availability question, greatly

Non-profit organization Energy Web said its starting a free sustainability registry for bitcoin miners, which takes into account their energy inputs and impact on electric grids, according a press release.The project, Green Proofs of Bitcoin (GP4BTC), will act as a "certification layer, that can be referenced by lots of different organizations based on what the…

Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Prices: Bitcoin has a sense of stability at $30,000, but how long will…

Sep 18, 2020 at 16:38 UTCUpdated Sep 18, 2020 at 16:51 UTC(Sarah Fields Photography/Shutterstock)Money Reimagined: Climate-Friendlier CryptoHaunting red skies, a mounting death toll and a giant swath of smoldering devastation across 12 western U.S. states compels us to talk this week about climate change and what it means for the cryptocurrency industry.  Because, whether you…

Looking back over my past predictions about the future, it’s clear that my columns have represented a lot of wishful thinking. Like Oscar Wilde, who once said he could resist anything except temptation, I can predict anything, as long as it's not about the future.Although I've often been wrong about what will happen in any

Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead (CoinDesk archives)Pantera Capital’s First Venture Fund Did Pretty Well. Its Second Fund? Not So MuchPantera Capital, a cryptocurrency investment firm known for its blockbuster bitcoin returns, has been on the upside when investing in startups, though the returns have been falling below or closer to other types of equity investors.The…

Prices of meme coin bob (BOB) slid as much as 45% on Sunday as its popular automated Twitter bot was suspended after the social media giant's owner Elon Musk called the account a “scam."Twitter even suspended another automated bot called @AskTheWassie, a comic frog that operated similarly to @ExplainThisBob on Sunday.“Promotion of scams under the…