Canada’s Einstein Exchange No Longer Has Bulk of Users’ Claimed CA$16M: Receiver

Palau, a country comprising some 340 islands in the Pacific Ocean, is running a trial of a stablecoin linked to the U.S. dollar, Jay Hunter Anson, a member of the board of directors at the Ministry of Finance, told CoinDesk in a direct message.The project started in March with wallet design, and the first stablecoin…

Oct 26, 2020 at 13:59 UTCUpdated Oct 26, 2020 at 14:13 UTCBenoît Cœuré, head of the BIS Innovation Hub. (Horacio Villalobos/Corbis/Getty Images)How things have changed since spring of 2019, when Agustin Carstens, general manager of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), was issuing his latest warning over the need for caution when considering central bank…

Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Sage D. Young is a tech protocol reporter at CoinDesk. He owns a few NFTs, gold and silver, as well as BTC, ETH, LINK, AAVE, ARB, PEOPLE, DOGE, OS, and HTR. Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide…

Jian Wen was found guilty of money laundering by a London jury that couldn't reach a decision on two other charges.Jian, who denied the allegations, was previously acquitted of other money laundering charges at a separate trial.A U.K. citizen was found guilty of laundering huge amounts of bitcoin (BTC) for a Chinese fugitive tied to

Feb 14, 2020 at 14:30 UTCUpdated Feb 14, 2020 at 14:33 UTCCoinbase's merchant payments arm has added support for the dai stablecoin, bringing together online retail and decentralized finance (DeFi). MakerDAO announced Thursday Coinbase Commerce had integrated dai as a payment method, opening the cryptocurrency up to affiliated online merchants and online commerce platforms like…

Commercial properties in downtown Beijing have been ordered not to provide venues for events that promote cryptocurrency.

May 12, 2020 at 23:31 UTCEthereum creator Vitalik Buterin at ETHDenver 2020. (Credit: CoinDesk video)Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has clarified his remarks on the expected launch date of Eth 2.0.During a Monday appearance at CoinDesk’s Consensus: Distributed, Buterin appeared to confirm a July launch date put forth in February by the lead researcher of the…

Bitcoin miner Ionic Digital hired John Penver, who used to work at data center service provider TSS, as CFO. Ionic bought bankrupt crypto lender Celsius' mining assets and plans to IPO this year. 00:52 Why Bitcoin Is the 'Direction God for Crypto' 02:01 Fed Chair Powell on Elevated Inflation; Could Trump's Crypto Enthusiasm Help Win

Elizabeth Napolitano is a news reporter at CoinDesk. The Blockchain Association, a crypto industry advocacy group, is exiting New York as it gears up to fight against federal regulators’ increasingly stringent restrictions on the cryptocurrency industry.“Blockchain Association is shifting resources out of New York State to focus on federal policy – and we continue to…