Data Shows US Dollar, Not Japanese Yen, Is Dominating Bitcoin Trade

Aug 11, 2020 at 16:00 UTCBitcoin News Roundup for Aug. 11, 2020With bitcoin increasingly acting like gold and one company betting a quarter of a billion dollars on BTC, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your news roundup! For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases , subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS. This episode…

NASD Inc., the company behind Noble, an asset issuance chain built for communication between blockchains, has raised $3.3 million in a seed round.The raise was led by Polychain Capital and included Borderless Capital, Circle Ventures and Wintermute Ventures, among others.Noble was created for native asset issuance in Cosmos and is part of the inter-blockchain communication

"Shadow economy" participants, those who use deal mostly in hard cash for anonymity's sake, are unlikely to be drawn to using a CBDC, according to a Reuters column.Feb 17, 2021 at 1:17 p.m. UTCCentral Bank Digital Currencies May Drive Cash ‘Shadow Economy’ to Crypto: ReutersCentral bank digital currencies (CBDCs) may signal the end of physical…

Aug 4, 2020 at 18:19 UTCUpdated Aug 4, 2020 at 18:27 UTCSEC Seeking ‘Smart Contract’ Tracing Tool That Can Spot Security VulnerabilitiesThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to procure a blockchain forensics tool that can analyze smart contracts and, preferably, highlight their security issues. Issuing a "DLT Smart Contract Analysis Tool" solicitation request…

Federal law enforcement officials raided the home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan on Wednesday. The prediction market was a breakout success in the U.S. presidential election, a platform where billions of dollars worth of bets were placed on the outcome. Polymarket traders viewed Donald Trump as the likely winner, as indeed he was. 02:47 Bitcoin

feature To understand how early investors in Facebook’s new Libra blockchain will make money over time, it helps to dig into a new lottery going live on ethereum mainnet Monday. It’s a lossless lottery called PoolTogether and tickets are now on sale. Its similarity to Libra is not a completely one-to-one relationship, but the key…

Dec 9, 2020 at 1:17 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 9, 2020 at 1:23 p.m. UTC(Marian Weyo/Shutterstock)One of the World’s Oldest Banks Is Issuing a Euro Stablecoin on StellarA euro stablecoin is being issued by one of the oldest banks in the world and it’s being done on the Stellar blockchain network.Announced Wednesday, Germany’s Bankhaus von der…

Cryptocurrency services firm AlphaPoint is powering a new decentralized exchange, the company announced Monday. 

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is likely approve several spot bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded funds in quick succession, triggering the next move higher for the world’s largest digital currency, crypto-services provider Matrixport said in a report Thursday.The ETF providers would spend "considerable marketing expenses to draw in retail and institutional capital," Markus Thielen, head of…