Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 22, 2021

Putin's opponent received 3.7 bitcoin in the last week, tripling the amount raised in the first two weeks of 2021.Jan 25, 2021 at 9:42 p.m. UTCBitcoin Donations to Navalny Surge After Russian Opposition Leader Is JailedThe standoff between Russia President Vladimir Putin and his main opponent, Alexey Navalny, rose to a new level last week…

opinion Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers. — You may not have heard of Vertcoin, a crypto project designed to curtail concentration…

Sep 25, 2020 at 10:37 UTCUpdated Sep 25, 2020 at 12:20 UTCThe U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is about to deploy a simple trick to make it far harder for taxpayers to avoid declaring their cryptocurrency assets.According to a Wall Street Journal report Friday, the Internal Revenue Service plans to reposition a question on the…

Ethereum ecosystem and layer-2 tokens, such as LDO, ARB, and MNT, jumped as much as 7% as Franklin Templeton filed plans for a spot ether ETF.Meanwhile, some market observers pointed out that Google search interest for bitcoin remained at an all-time low compared to the price, implying low retail interest in the topic.Solana’s SOL led

Polymarket founder Shayne Coplan and the market niche he took mainstream in 2024 can take a victory lap. Along with Donald Trump, the Republican Party, and the cryptocurrency industry, prediction markets are a clear winner of the U.S. election. The GOP's surprisingly strong showing Tuesday night came as a shock to those who only got

A non-fungible token (NFT) game called MonkeyBall has raised $3 million as the latest experiment in the surging “play-to-earn” sector, where gamers reap crypto rewards for their time.The soccer game is being developed with the Unity game engine on the Solana blockchain in a bid to be a high production value, AAA-grade title, the company…

news Coinbase’s legal chief is calling for private sector leadership in developing America’s digital currency. Brian Brooks, in a Fortune essay published Monday, argued private corporations are best positioned to build a much-debated digital U.S. dollar, and that the government should stand back and let them, doing little, if anything, to regulate their underlying blockchains.…

The bitcoin mining difficulty - a measure of how easily miners can discover a block of bitcoin - is set to surpass the 50T mark on Wednesday, setting a new all-time high, and it’s could continue to grow further.The rally in bitcoin prices this year and rise in popularity for the Ordinals protocol has led…

Apr 21, 2020 at 12:06 UTCUpdated Apr 21, 2020 at 12:12 UTCFirst Mover: 10 Takeaways for Bitcoin From Negative Oil PricesU.S. oil futures prices turned negative Monday for the first time ever. Is it good or bad for bitcoin?The coronavirus pandemic has so completely upended the global economy that energy demand has fallen off a…