Coinbase Taps Regulation Veteran for First-Ever Crypto Compliance Chief

opinion Hu Liang is co-founder and CEO at Omniex, an institutional trading platform for crypto assets, and a former senior vice president of State Street. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  At the inaugural Consensus Invest last year in New York City, I was on stage with a host of notable…

news Payments giant Mastercard claims to have developed a new way of keeping cryptocurrency transactions private. According to a patent application published Thursday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the payments giant has proposed a system of conducting transactions over a blockchain which would obfuscate both the point of origin and the amount being transacted.…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Jocelyn Yang is a markets reporter at CoinDesk. She is a recent graduate of Emerson College's journalism program. Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Non-fungible token (NFT) collective Proof is working…

May 11, 2020 at 13:20 UTCUpdated May 11, 2020 at 13:51 UTCBitcoin's third halving, Consensus: Distributed and a pullback after the bulls make another run at $10,000.For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS.Today's stories:For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS.Disclosure Read…

Oct 12, 2020 at 19:45 UTCUpdated Oct 12, 2020 at 19:46 UTCInside Morgan State’s FinTech Center(Morgan State University)How HBCUs Are Prepping Black Students for Blockchain CareersDozens of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are exploring the next phase of decentralized technologies in a bid to put Black students at the forefront of new blockchain protocols. “These…

Beyond Coinbase: 8 Other Ways to Buy BitcoinWhen Elon Musk adds #Bitcoin to his Twitter bio, you know buying bitcoin is in vogue again. The cryptocurrency is pumping, perhaps not-too-coincidentally, as investing app Robinhood faces criticism for censoring stock and crypto trading in response to the Wall Street Bets saga. With Robinhood taking heat, Coinbase is basking…

Jun 18, 2020 at 13:47 UTCUpdated Jun 18, 2020 at 14:19 UTCPlinth for what used to be Edward Colston's statue, Bristol, the U.K. (Caitlin Hobbs/Wikimedia)Tearing Down Monuments Isn’t Censorship – It’s SpeechJill Carlson, a CoinDesk columnist, is co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit research organization working to guarantee the right to a free…

The recent Dencun upgrade lowered fees by 4x, on average.This led to less ETH being burned, thus reversing its status as a deflationary asset.Ethereum's recent Dencun upgrade, which was designed to reduce fees and help scale the network, has caused ether (ETH) to revert back to an inflationary asset -- potentially reversing one of the

The central bank noted that economic activity and employment had moderated while the path of the economy will be determined by vaccinations The Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C.(traveler1116/Getty Images)Jan 27, 2021 at 7:14 p.m. UTCFederal Reserve Holds Rates, Asset Purchases Steady as Economic Activity ModeratesThe Federal Reserve said Wednesday it would keep U.S. interest…