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May 9, 2020 at 11:00 UTCConsensus: DistributedMichelle Phan: The Beauty of BitcoinThe first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase.“I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which was part of the decentralization of content,” said beauty mogul…

Bitcoin (BTC) dropped to near $43,000 Friday, a fall of 6% in day-over-day trading, while some bitcoin mining stocks tumbled over 10% extending yesterday's decline after Thursday's highly-anticipated spot bitcoin ETF debut.The largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization fell to as low as $43,200 during the U.S. trading session, down from around $46,000 earlier today and

Aug 11, 2020 at 17:44 UTCUpdated Aug 11, 2020 at 18:12 UTC(Kriangkrai Thitimakorn/Shutterstock)Blockchain Bites: MicroStrategy’s $250M Bitcoin Bet, India Booms, Banks Open to CustodyMicroStrategy bets $250 million on bitcoin’s safe haven thesis. Indian crypto is booming. And David Marcus has a new role at Facebook. Top shelfBanks buying“Major U.S. banks might be willing to support…

news The former CEO of Enron, Jeffrey Skilling, is reportedly looking to start a blockchain company just a month after being freed from jail for his role in the energy giant’s massive accounting scandal back in 2001. According to a Wall Street Journal article on Monday citing sources “familiar with the matter,” Skilling may be…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will no longer pursue claims against Ripple’s CEO Brad Garlinghouse or Executive Chairman Chris Larsen that they aided and

Jun 18, 2020 at 16:15 UTCUpdated Jun 18, 2020 at 16:33 UTCIt’s hard to pick just one stunning fact about the market suddenly created by the issuance of Compound’s COMP token. Since Monday, when the governance token started being released to users of tht decentralized lending platform, the total value locked (TVL) on Compound has…

Friend.Tech airdropped its native token, FRIEND, while debuting version 2 of the platform.The token's price plummeted from as high as $169 immediately after the airdrop to $2.5.Decentralized social platform Friend.Tech on Friday airdropped its native token, FRIEND, while unveiling version 2 of the platform, which is packed with new features, including the Money Club.The token's

This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Today on “The Breakdown,” NLW rounds out the story of the bitcoin futures ETF process that has dominated crypto chatter for the last week or more. He looks at the details of the first ETF that will go live, as well as why some on Twitter argue this is really…

“When you go down that path of arguing, ‘It’s some data derived from the image in a certain way,’ well, that’s just a copy,” says Butterick. “It’s just a fancy way of figuring out how to store the data and regenerate it later.” Renowned science journalist and sci-fi writer Ted Chiang recently made much the…