Coders Renew Efforts to Fork Mining Giant Bitmain Off Siacoin Blockchain

Dec 27, 2020 at 4:04 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 27, 2020 at 4:19 p.m. UTCKevin ReynoldsInstitutions Will Start Buying Ether in 2021, Messari Analyst SaysCME Group’s recent announcement that it will launch ether (ETH) futures on Feb. 8, 2021, is the “writing on the wall” that institutions will being buying the cryptocurrency next year, according to…

The "experimental" phase for the Tezos blockchain is over. On Monday morning, the Tezos Foundation will officially announce that the protocol will no longer be in a beta period, and instead be a full mainnet, launched and run by its community. The designation is admittedly largely a semantic one. Tezos launched a mainnet, or live…

The new derivatives product will settle on a CFTC-approved exchange, adding liquidity and transparency.The financial product will help miners mitigate hashrate volatility risk, adding a treasury management tool ahead of halving.01:01AAX Likely Moving Toward Legal Procedure, Former Exec Predicts01:08Bitcoin Traders Prepare for a Tumultuous March01:07Bitcoin May Soon Wake From Slumber, Derivatives Data Indicates05:09Coinbase Acquires Derivatives

Jul 24, 2020 at 08:51 UTCUpdated Jul 24, 2020 at 08:54 UTCTomas Holub, Czech National Bank board member (image courtesy CNB)Czech Central Bank Board Member Criticizes CBDCs as ‘Helicopter Money’A board member of the Czech National Bank has provided a less than glowing opinion on the current viability of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). Tomas Holub…

news A Finland-based firm offering cryptocurrency brokerage and exchange services has been granted a Payment Institution License (PIL) in the EU. In an announcement Friday, Prasos Ltd. said that, with the news, it has become only the third crypto firm in Europe to receive the license. Awarded by the Finnish Financial Supervisory Authority (FSA), the…

OKX, the world’s second largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has enlisted the services of digital asset storage firm Komainu, allowing institutional users to keep their crypto within the Nomura-backed custodian while using those funds to trade on the exchange.It’s a partnership that demonstrates how vertically integrated crypto exchanges can start to emulate traditional finance,…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Bradley Keoun is the managing editor of CoinDesk's Markets team. He owns less than $1,000 each of several cryptocurrencies. Sage D. Young is a tech protocol reporter at CoinDesk. He owns a few NFTs, gold and silver, as well as…

Sam Altman’s crypto project Worldcoin is set to launch its WLD token and mainnet on Monday, the company made the announcement on Twitter over the weekend.Semafor first reported the news, although the launch was expected with an announcement going to the press under embargo.Sam Altman is the co-founder of Open AI, the company behind ChatGPT.…

news Social media giant Facebook is said to be seeking to raise as much as a billion dollars in outside funding for its cryptocurrency project. Nathaniel Popper, a technology reporter at The New York Times, tweeted Monday that sources have said Facebook is targeting “big sums – as much as $1b” from venture capitalists to…