Bitcoin’s ‘Estimated Leverage Ratio’ Hits Lowest Since December 2021

Last week President Donald Trump accused Twitter of stifling his speech after it accused him of spreading misinformation.  In an escalating series of actions, Twitter took the unprecedented step of fact-checking the U.S. President and then shielded another presidential tweet for “glorifying violence.” In response, Trump pushed out an executive order taking aim at a…

news SIX, the Swiss national stock exchange group, is working on creating its own “stablecoin” – a cryptocurrency pegged to the Swiss franc – to facilitate transactions on the SIX Digital Exchange (SDX), CoinDesk has learned. A spokesman for SIX confirmed the move in an email, telling CoinDesk: “Yes, we are currently working on a…

news Can digitalizing bonds with distributed ledger technology (DLT) bring benefits to market participants? That’s a question being asked by HSBC Singapore in a new trial being developed in partnership with Singapore Exchange (SGX) and investment firm Temasek. The effort will examine the potential of DLT to streamline the issuance and servicing of fixed income securities, debt instruments…

Etherscan, one of the most commonly used Ethereum blockchain scanning websites, introduced a tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to help users interpret the source code of smart contracts, according to a post on its website.The tool, based on AI technology developed by OpenAI, allows users to ask for an explanation of the entirety or…

Investors continue to pay a premium for miners diversifying into AI and HPC data centers, despite pure-play miners gaining market share. Marathon, Riot and CleanSpark all saw higher production numbers in September than August. Marathon produced more bitcoin in September than in any other month since the April halving. Disclosure: The author of this story

Spurred by the recent Republican electoral trifecta earlier this month and the prospect of federal policy facilitating further and more widespread adoption, bitcoin notched a new all-time high above $90,000. While all eyes have been largely fixed on the regulatory outlook in Washington, Wall Street is taking note of the new margins for miners. Just

Mar 30, 2020 at 13:12 UTCUpdated Mar 30, 2020 at 13:46 UTCUSD Stablecoins Are Surging, but Zero Interest Rates Complicate Business ModelCoinDesk columnist Hasu is a pseudonymous crypto researcher publishing analysis for Deribit Insights and his personal blog.“There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.” Vladimir Lenin - allegedlyThe last…

news On March 7, 2019, all the lights went out in Venezuela. Total blackout. While the electricity crisis was already part of everyday life, the blackout still crippled communications across the country. It also inspired Venezuelan Randy Brito to focus fully on the Locha Mesh initiative, an open-source project working to enable private messages and…

Jun 23, 2020 at 07:00 UTC(Piotr Swat/Shutterstock)Vanguard Ran Its Digital Asset-Backed Securities Pilot in 40 MinutesThe full life of a digital asset-backed security (ABS) on a blockchain can be settled in 40 minutes versus the 10 to 14 days it would take in a paper-based setting. That was the outcome of a pilot first revealed…