Bitcoin’s Taproot Privacy Tech Is Ready – But One Thing’s Standing In The Way

Aug 11, 2020 at 11:46 UTCUpdated Aug 11, 2020 at 11:50 UTCNot so stable? (yanik88/Shutterstock)First Mover: After Falling 65% This Year in Bitcoin Terms, Do ‘Stablecoins’ Need a Rebranding?Imagine a future where bitcoin has taken over from the U.S. dollar as the world’s de facto reserve currency. Assuming bitcoin’s notorious price volatility continued to that…

Bitcoin can reach as high as $150,000 this year fueled by ETFs, halving and Fed rate cuts, Fundstrat's Tom Lee said.Bitcoin's rally has recently stalled below $53,000 and prices may cool for a while, other analysts suggested.Bitcoin (BTC) may have stalled over the past week, but FundStrat head of research Tom Lee doubled down on

news Grayscale Investments has received regulatory approval to list what it calls the first publicly-traded digital currency index fund. Following assent from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Digital Large Cap Fund (DLC) will be listed on over-the-counter markets and trade under the initials GDLCF.  The DLC is Grayscale’s fourth publicly-quoted investment product, after…

Ryan Salame, the former FTX executive sentenced to 7.5 years in prison in May, has withdrawn a legal request to a New York court asking that the conditions of his plea deal with prosecutors be enforced or that his plea be thrown out and his sentence vacated. Last week, Salame’s lawyers filed a petition with

A phone call that brought together a broad representation of the ethereum community to discuss critical code changes on which decisions need to be made ahead of a software upgrade scheduled for October, failed to produce immediate results Friday. The bi-weekly developers call, which this week included a majority of the network's miners and some…

"Tokenization," particularly of "real world assets," or RWAs, has recently been touted as the next big thing in crypto. Most people do not make the connection that this trend is just another form of security tokens, a term you may not have heard since 2018 (for good reason).Dave Hendricks is the co-founder and CEO of

Jan 23, 2020 at 14:00 UTCImage via CoinDesk ArchiveDigital asset storage provider Ledger is partnering with FLETA, a South Korea-based blockchain platform for decentralized applications (dapps) to provide custodian services compliant with local laws.The French startup has been trying to extend the reach of its institutional-level services with Ledger Vault, building on the success of…

Jul 20, 2020 at 12:08 UTCUpdated Jul 20, 2020 at 12:09 UTCBitcoin mining machines (PHOTOCREO Michal Bednarek/Shutterstock)First Mover: Bitcoin Miners Find Upgrade Financing Aplenty, Even as Prices LanguishEven as bitcoin prices languish below $10,000, North American cryptocurrency mining companies are tapping into a flurry of fresh financing from investors to pay for new equipment upgrades,…

For those of you who are coming to Consensus 2024 in Austin, Texas this May 28 – 31 looking to network, which as our research indicates, most of you are, you’ll likely want to hit up at least a few of the dozens of happy hours, cocktail parties and entertainment planned to coincide with the