Coinbase Launches Crypto Plugin for Popular E-Commerce Platform

Will Gottsegen is CoinDesk's media and culture reporter. He holds less than $500 in ETH, and less than $1000 in NFTs.One of the problems non-fungible tokens (NFTs) purport to solve is the idea of “platform risk.” Buy an in-game add-on for a video game and your purchase really exists only on the publisher’s platform; files…

SBI's digital assets subsidiary will lead a round that will have raised around $30 million for the Swiss firm over six months.Feb 17, 2021 at 12:00 a.m. UTCJapan’s SBI Investing ‘Eight-Figure’ Sum in Swiss Crypto Bank SygnumSBI Holdings, a Japanese financial services firm, is to lead an ongoing strategic fundraising round for Swiss digital asset…

Parade of military forces, along with photographs of Qasem Soleimani, Tehran, Iran, May 31, 2019. (Image via Shutterstock)Bitcoin jumped the most in two weeks after a U.S. drone strike killed a top Iranian military commander, fueling speculation that heightened geopolitical turmoil might spur demand for the cryptocurrency in 2020. The digital asset’s price jumped 5 percent…

This past year has been a testament to the blockchain space’s ability to recover from even the harshest external conditions. From the depths of the “crypto winter” at the beginning of the year, the overall market cap of the crypto space has grown by 90% to $1.69 trillion, with bitcoin more than doubling from its

Good morning. Here’s what’s happening:Prices: XRP, XLM have a day in the spotlight. Bitcoin loses $30K.Insights: Ripple's partial victory left key questions unsettled. Preston Byrne told CoinDesk TV that lawmakers need to create a "legal regime" that accounts for digital assets' unique characteristics.XLM, XRP Lead Altcoin RallyXLM and XRP led a posse of altcoins out…

Jul 14, 2020 at 05:40 UTCUpdated Jul 14, 2020 at 06:00 UTCIRS form 1040, modified by CoinDesk using PhotoMoshKirk Phillips is an entrepreneur, certified public accountant (CPA) and author of “The Ultimate Bitcoin Business Guide: For Entrepreneurs & Business Advisors.” You need to be nimble to be a crypto tax professional. As the industry has…

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The "Kimchi premium" refers to the difference in Bitcoin prices on Korean exchanges compared to global bourses. Bitcoin is currently trading at a 10% premium in South Korea.The arbitrage popularized by Sam Bankman-Fried involves buying bitcoin on a global exchange and selling it on a Korean exchange for a riskless profit in Korean won.Pocketing the

Sep 21, 2020 at 20:02 UTCUpdated Sep 21, 2020 at 20:28 UTC(Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock)SEC, OCC Issue First Regulatory Clarifications for StablecoinsThe U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) has published fresh guidance, officially clarifying national banks can provide services to stablecoin issuers in the U.S. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency…