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Nov 26, 2019 at 17:30 UTCUpdated Nov 26, 2019 at 17:30 UTC"A Xmas Shopper," 1914 postcard, image via New York Public Library/Wikimedia Commons How to Earn and Spend Bitcoin on Black Friday 2019The holiday shopping season is upon us, and bitcoin users now have more opportunities than ever before to spend and earn their digital…

NEWSINBRIEF Nobuaki Kobayashi, the trustee of the collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, is seeking to extend the deadline for filing civil rehabilitation claims to December. Kobayashi announced Thursday that he will make “efforts to request the court to accept proofs of rehabilitation claims received by December 26, 2018.” The earlier deadline of Oct. 22 has already passed, but…

Marathon Digital’s (MARA) third-quarter “non-GAAP net income” of $0.85 per share beat analysts’ average estimate of $0.43, while its revenue of $51.7 million missed the estimate of $67.4 million, according to FactSet.Marathon mined 1,252 bitcoin in the third quarter, which was a 91% increase from the previous quarter.At the end of the quarter, it held…

news According to the artist who calls himself Cryptograffiti, art could be a way to help the public to understand cryptocurrencies, The San Francisco artist displayed his work at the event Bitcoin2019 where he talked to CoinDesk about the impact of art in the cryptocurrency space and his work in South America. “I devoted my work…

It’s effectively July 2017 in the world of decentralized finance (DeFi), and as in the heady days of the initial coin offering (ICO) boom, the numbers are only trending up. According to DeFi Pulse, there is $1.9 billion in crypto assets locked in DeFi right now. According to the CoinDesk ICO Tracker, the ICO market…

People in Hong Kong wear masks to protect against the coronavirus outbreak (Jan. 28, 2020). Credit: ShutterstockWith the new coronavirus now having killed a reported 638 people, most of them in China, the ramifications of the outbreak are continuing to affect lives and businesses in the region. And the cryptocurrency industry is no exception. According…

Sep 18, 2020 at 16:14 UTCNew on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network: LND Adds Accounting Feature, c-lightning Gets an UpgradeWhile so-called “DeFi degens” are busy bidding up the price of food-themed tokens, on the other end of crypto’s DeFi spectrum two teams working on the most popular implementations of Bitcoin’s Lightning Network have been busy pushing out new…

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ordered listed companies, including crypto firms, to publish annual reports on their "cybersecurity risk management, strategy, and governance."The new rule requires companies to disclose any "material" cybersecurity incidents within four business days in a bid to deepen trust between investors and public companies. Companies must detail how the cyberattack…

Nassau, The Bahamas — In early 2022, Ryan Austin was part of a non-profit foundation devoted to teaching people in The Bahamas how to code. One of the early donations it received was from FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried's now-defunct cryptocurrency exchange that operated from the nation. The $30,000 contribution was made to train public school teachers