Blockchain Bites: Paul Tudor Jones, Open Options and Why Bitcoin Looks Strong Heading to the Halving

At 12th place globally, New York City came in fifth among the U.S. hubs in CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023. Many of the Crypto Hubs’ criteria were measured on a national basis, so all the U.S. hubs were hampered by a middling crypto regulatory score – part of the drivers category and the single-most heavily weighted…

May 28, 2020 at 19:03 UTCUpdated May 28, 2020 at 19:04 UTCTelegram CEO Pavel Durov (Credit: TechCrunch/Wikimedia Commons)Telegram messenger founder and CEO Pavel Durov reportedly donated about $90,000 worth of bitcoin (BTC) to help alleviate the financial burden of the COVID-19 pandemic in Russia. Egor Zhukov, a student political activist who organized a crowdfunding campaign…

news Bitcoin’s price has once again set a new high for 2019 after breaking out from a bullish pattern on the daily chart, reaching as high as $8,905 before retracing slightly. At 19:00 UTC on May 26, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization broke from an ascending triangle pattern on the daily chart, courtesy…

Dec 2, 2019 at 16:30 UTCUpdated Dec 2, 2019 at 16:34 UTCSri Lanka festival image via ShutterstockSri Lanka’s Central Bank Calls for Blockchain-Based KYC ProposalsThe Central Bank of Sri Lanka wants to develop a blockchain-based know-your-customer (KYC) platform. In an open call posted to its website Nov. 29, the bank announced that it is searching for…

Feb 25, 2020 at 10:00 UTCUpdated Feb 25, 2020 at 10:13 UTCHOT COMMODITY? The first batch of tokens issued on Atomyze will be backed by palladium, cobalt and copper mined by Moscow-based Nornickel. (Image: Shutterstock)Nornickel, the Russian mining and smelting giant, has taken another step toward the issuance of tokens backed by metals on Atomyze,…

news Four more major institutions including the Shinhan and NH Nonghyup banks have joined a South Korean decentralized identity initiative that’s aimed to secure and share personal information using blockchain. According to a report from CoinDesk Korea on Sunday, the program, which was first released in July, is now officially named as the Initial DID…

Next month, the Bitcoin network will undergo its fourth halving since its launch in 2009. In honor of that occasion, CoinDesk is publishing a month-long editorial package covering everything from Bitcoin’s changing cultural scene to the technical advancements being planned today.This column is part of CoinDesk’s “Future of Bitcoin” package published to coincide with the

Ethereum is eating all the blockchains. That’s fine.If history is a prologue, then Ethereum is going to eat the entire blockchain sector and everything that is not Ethereum will eventually become an Ethereum Layer 2. I believe the recent decision by CELO stakeholders to shift into operating as an Ethereum Layer 2 is just the

Aug 25, 2020 at 14:19 UTCUpdated Aug 25, 2020 at 14:36 UTC(dario hayashi/Shutterstock)Binance Exchange to List Paxos’ Gold-Backed CryptocurrencyA gold-backed digital asset created by Paxos Standard will soon launch for trading on cryptocurrency exchange Binance.  From Aug. 26, Binance customers will be able to trade PAX Gold (PAXG) against the exchange's own stablecoin BUSD and…