Coinbase Wins Patent for Secure Bitcoin Payments System

Oct 23, 2020 at 19:42 UTCUpdated Oct 23, 2020 at 20:15 UTC(Curtis MacNewton/Unsplash)Ethereum 2.0 Deposit Contract Release Kicked Back Until NovemberThe Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract is a few weeks away at least, according to Ethereum Foundation researcher Danny Ryan.Speaking Thursday on the Bankless podcast, Ryan said the deposit contract won’t go live until it receives…

Jun 17, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Jun 17, 2020 at 13:18 UTCPolychain Capital, Square Crypto’s Steve Lee Invest in Bitcoin Broker’s $5.7M Seed RoundA slew of investors is backing bitcoin brokerage River Financial to the tune of $5.7 million. Announced Wednesday, the San Francisco-based startup has closed a seed round joined by Polychain Capital, Slow…

Dec 11, 2019 at 14:30 UTCUpdated Dec 11, 2019 at 15:20 UTCJake Brukhman, Coinlist FounderThis post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Jake Brukhman is the founder and managing director of CoinFund.After a partial recovery in the…

Jan 16, 2020 at 15:19 UTCUpdated Jan 16, 2020 at 15:39 UTCBahnhofstrasse, Zürich, Switzerland image via Patrick Nouhailler/FlickrThe new owner of the Chrysler Building is selling a property worth $135 million to a blockchain real-estate company, taking a fifth of the purchase price in tokenized securities. New York-based RFR Holdings, which purchased the Chrysler Building…

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, is leaving the Netherlands, after failing persuade the Dutch regulator to issue a virtual asset service provider (VASP) license, which attests that it meets anti-money laundering (AML) guidelines.As of July 17, Dutch residents will only be able to withdraw their funds from the platform, according to a statement from…

Apr 10, 2020 at 15:22 UTCUpdated Apr 10, 2020 at 15:37 UTCMoney Reimagined: As Tech, Politics and COVID-19 Collide, a Global Reset LoomsMoney is a shared fiction. Our mechanism for storing and exchanging agreed-upon units of value, a tool so powerful that wars are fought over it, springs entirely from our collective imagination. Some might find…

Tokenized trading project Neutral and DLT Finance, a German brokerage firm, have built a blockchain-backed exchange for carbon credits – financial instruments that represent forests and renewable energy products that businesses can use to offset their carbon footprint.The tokenized real-world asset (RWA) project isn’t the first to bet that blockchain can improve the multibillion-dollar carbon

news Phil Potter, previously an executive at Bitfinex and Tether, and crypto finance firm XBTO are launching what they describe as a clearinghouse for stablecoins. Still in development, the platform – called Stablehouse.io – is aimed to addresses patchy liquidity, stability and accessibility that currently “prevent the stablecoin market from reaching critical mass,” according to an announcement. Stablehouse…

For bitcoin, the path of least resistance is to the downside. At press time, the leading cryptocurrency is trading at $6,340 on Bifinex – down 3 percent from the high of $6,550 hit earlier today. The minor recovery from the previous day's low of $6,300 was likely a product of oversold conditions reported by the…