DappRadar: 2020 Dapp Industry Report

A bullish bitcoin mentality appears to be forming in the options market while ether continues on its roller coaster. CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexJan 25, 2021 at 9:48 p.m. UTCMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Hits $34.8K While Ether Volatility SkyrocketsSome bitcoin investors appear to be buying in around $30,000 and taking profits at $40,000, according to one…

May 12, 2020 at 17:03 UTCUpdated May 12, 2020 at 17:29 UTCTelegram CEO Pavel Durov (Credit: TechCrunch/Wikimedia Commons)TON is officially dead.Telegram founder Pavel Durov wrote in his public channel Tuesday that the Telegram Open Network (TON) project would be discontinued due to the company's ongoing legal fight with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).…

U.K. House of Commons Treasury Committee lawmakers have published their concerns about the government’s plans for a digital pound.Among other things, they want lower than proposed limits for individual holdings and for the government to create a digital pound that can bear interest.The U.K. and European Union’s proposals so far have stated that a central

High funding rates, relatively low liquidity and reports of crypto exchange Mt.Gox starting repayments to victims of its 2014 hack spurred a market-wide decline in the past 24 hours, bringing losses to leveraged bullish traders.In futures market, traders betting on higher prices lost over $190 million to liquidations as bitcoin (BTC) dropped as much as 4% before

news Patrick Byrne, the former CEO of Overstock who resigned abruptly in August, has dumped his 13 percent stake in the e-commerce company he founded 20 years ago to buy cryptocurrency and precious metals, he announced late yesterday. In a blog post at his DeepCapture.com, Byrne said that, by the end of the week, he…

2022 for crypto was an unprecedented hellscape of disasters – and the collapse of FTX was its culmination.It was also unprecedented for CoinDesk. Unlike any previous moment of failure in crypto history, this time we found ourselves at the epicenter, as our reporting triggered the events that unfolded.This resulted in a weird mix of bad…

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Nov 18, 2020 at 1:47 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 18, 2020 at 2:16 p.m. UTCBlocks mined per month by OKEx's poolOKEx Mining Pool Flatlines After 99.5% Hash Power Drop as Withdrawal Suspensions Spook ClientsOKEx’s mining pool has gone from being one of the world’s largest to not mining any new blocks in over two weeks after…

Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He doesn’t own any crypto.Hungary sees no urgent need for a widely available central bank digital currency (CBDC) but is experimenting to see if one could help the unbanked, a senior official said on Wednesday.In principle, as a European Union (EU)…