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What the Oil Market Says About Bitcoin’s ‘Safe Haven’ StatusMonday’s historic financial tumult reached beyond stocks, sinking commodities and even bitcoin markets.“I don’t think any asset is safe right now – except cash, U.S. dollars,” said Ali Khedery, formerly Exxon’s senior Middle East advisor and now CEO of U.S.-based strategy firm Dragoman Ventures.While bitcoin prices…

Oct 22, 2020 at 13:10 UTCUpdated Oct 22, 2020 at 13:23 UTCFranklin Templeton was named for Benjamin Franklin (pictured on the $100 bill). (Patryk Kosmider/Shutterstock)Curv, a provider of cryptocurrency custody infrastructure, has been backed in an extended Series A funding round by investment firm Franklin Templeton and fintech-focused VC firm Illuminate Financial Management.The two new…

AT&T image via Jonathan Weiss / Shutterstock AT&T’s Cybersecurity Branch Breaks Down Crypto Miner Threat to Email ServersAT&T's Alien Labs is dipping its toes into cryptomining malware analysis with a new technological breakdown of how a monero miner infiltrates networks. Released Thursday, the report by security researcher Fernando Domínguez provides a step-by-step walkthrough of how one…

news Christopher Brookins is the founder of Valiendero Digital Assets, a quantitative crypto fund founded out of Carnegie Mellon. 2019 has not only seen a resurgence of the crypto bull, but also capital raising. In particular, IEOs or “Initial Exchange Offerings” have been highly visible for both good and bad reasons. Positively, IEOs have produced…

Digital Currency Group (DCG) and Genesis Global have reached a re-payment plan to settle their lawsuit, according to a new bankruptcy filing.In September, Genesis filed a lawsuit against DCG, alleging wrongful possession of over $620 million in loans and seeking repayment, interest, and fees amidst Genesis' ongoing bankruptcy proceedings.So far, DCG has paid approximately $227.3

NEW YORK – Nishad Singh, former director of engineering at FTX and a one-time member of Sam Bankman-Fried’s inner circle, was sentenced to time served by a federal judge on Wednesday, meaning he's not going to prison like his former colleagues. Singh, 29, who pleaded guilty to six criminal counts including wire fraud and conspiracy last

Nov 24, 2020 at 9:23 p.m. UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Pushes Past $19.4K; Deribit Ether Options Volume SpikesHow high can bitcoin’s price go? Analysts say the higher the price, the more investors will plow in. Meanwhile, increasing ether options volume on Deribit is likely making derivatives more expensive.Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $18,987…

The bitcoin mining difficulty - a measure of how easily miners can discover a block of bitcoin - is set to surpass the 50T mark on Wednesday, setting a new all-time high, and it’s could continue to grow further.The rally in bitcoin prices this year and rise in popularity for the Ordinals protocol has led…

Dec 14, 2020 at 3:54 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 14, 2020 at 4:11 p.m. UTC(Benny Marty/Shutterstock)Evercore Says PayPal’s Crypto Offering Could Bring Big Business BoostAdvisory company Evercore has named PayPal (PYPL) as its top payments stock and said the firm’s recently launched cryptocurrency offering could be good for profitability.According to a Bloomberg report Monday, Evercore ISI…