China’s Communist Party Publishes Blockchain Tech 101 for Officials

news Two Canadian nationals have been indicted for scheming to steal bitcoin from an Oregon resident. Karanjit and Jagroop Singh Khatkar of Surrey, British Columbia, Canada, posed as customer service representatives of HitBTC, a Hong Kong-based cryptocurrency exchange, in order to steal login credentials of a target’s account. According to a statement from the Attorney’s…

news A blockchain startup is bringing the fight for free speech to the domain level. Unstoppable Domains announced Thursday a $4 million Series A led by venture capital firm Draper Associates. Boost VC, which led the startup’s seed round, was the only other participant in the Series A. “For global free speech to work, you…

Jun 18, 2020 at 13:35 UTCThe New York Times Proves Why Civil’s Vision Is Still VitalCathy Barrera, a CoinDesk columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an advisory group, and was chief economist at ZipRecruiter. She has a PhD in business economics from Harvard. The Black Lives Matter protests in response to the police…

Shares in Nasdaq-listed cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase (COIN) have surged nearly 300% this year, outperforming leading cryptocurrency bitcoin (BTC) by a significant margin. Per Fairlead Strategies, further gains could be in the offing, as COIN is on track to confirm a long-term base pattern breakout.Basing involves an asset consolidating in a price range for a prolonged

Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Camomile Shumba is a CoinDesk regulatory reporter based in the UK. She previously worked as…

The head of Singapore's central bank has been one of the most influential policymakers in Asia, arguably the most vibrant region currently for crypto development. As Managing Director of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Ravi Menon, 59, has steered the institution toward a middle path between Hong Kong's favorable crypto regulations and the just-ban-crypto

Aug 13, 2020 at 10:20 UTCUpdated Aug 13, 2020 at 10:42 UTCCryptocurrency miners (PHOTOCREO Michal Bednarek/Shutterstock)With Ethereum transaction fees soaring, the daily profit that can be achieved by miners on the network is now at its highest point in 27 months. Data from BitInfoCharts shows that the daily profitability for Ethereum miner operators is at…

Users can select any investment in their Bitpanda account to fund payments with the physical Visa card.Jan 20, 2021 at 2:43 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 20, 2021 at 2:52 p.m. UTCBitpanda Launches Debit Card That Lets Users Spend Fiat, Crypto and Precious MetalsBitpanda, a digital investment platform, has launched a Visa debit card that allows customers…

news Social investing platform eToro has just announced the acquisition of Firmo – a smart contract startup that enables derivatives to be tokenized “on any major blockchain.” While the purchase amount was not disclosed, eToro co-founder and CEO Yoni Assia said that the move is aimed to “accelerate the growth of our tokenized assets offering.” Assia continued:…