Coinbase Suffers ‘Connectivity Issues’ Again as Bitcoin Hits Another Record

Altcoins are outperforming bitcoin and ether, a sign investor interest is broadening beyond the largest cryptocurrencies.The Fed is likely to keep rates unchanged on Wednesday. Potential dovish hints could bode well for bitcoin, one observer said.The total crypto market capitalization has bounced to $1.74 trillion from $1.61 trillion in a week, with alternative cryptocurrencies (altcoins)

Analysis of open interest in Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s (CME) bitcoin (BTC) futures shows that the unwinding of long positions appears to be in its end phase rather than its beginning, JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report on Thursday.Open interest refers to the total number of outstanding derivative contracts, such as options or futures, that…

Riot attributes the increase in losses to selling, general and administrative expenses of $61.2 million compared with $41.4 a year ago. The bitcoin "halving", which cuts the reward miners receive for adding new blocks to the network, lower number of bitcoin that Riot produced during the quarter. 00:38 Rep. Ro Khanna on Division Between Parties

Jul 15, 2020 at 09:53 UTCMazatlan, Mexico (Vivid Pixels/Shutterstock)Two promoters of the crypto Ponzi scheme OneCoin were found dead in Mexico last month. A report last Friday by La Tercera said the bodies, identified as Oscar Brito Ibarra and Ignacio Ibarra (apparently not relations), had been found in suitcases by local police on June 30.The…

DOGE/BTC lingers at the depth of a prolonged bear market, undercutting any notion of speculative frenzy. The ratio's present price pattern resembles late 2020. Dogecoin's (DOGE), the world's leading meme cryptocurrency by market value, has surged 24% in one week, outpacing gains in other major tokens, including industry leader bitcoin. 01:00 Latin America's Crypto Surge:

Early efforts on the Solana blockchain to develop a framework for "restaking" – a way of securing new protocols and applications without having to spin up additional validator networks – appear to be gaining traction. Jito Labs, a developer of infrastructure tools for Solana, has yet to launch its planned restaking effort on mainnet. But

May 15, 2020 at 20:57 UTCSource: CoinDesk Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Dips as Stock Markets Close Lower on the WeekBitcoin’s steady price gains over the past few days ended Friday. With the halving in the rearview mirror, cryptocurrency traders could consider the impact of a continued global economic slowdown after new data showed retail…

news Balaji Srinivasan, the former CTO of Coinbase, has just joined decentralized finance blockchain project Findora. Announcing the news on Wednesday, the firm said Srinivasan is to help guide the firm as a strategic adviser. Professor Dan Boneh, head of Stanford University’s Cryptography Group is also joining in the same role. “We are excited to welcome Professor…

This is a developing story and will be updated frequently throughout the day.NEW YORK — Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison retook the stand on Wednesday, after testifying that her former boss and ex-boyfriend, Sam Bankman-Fried, had directed many of FTX's now-public missteps.Shortly after Ellison resumed her testimony, Judge Lewis Kaplan dealt the defense another