DEA Agent: Speculators Are Using Bitcoin More Than Criminals

Prices have shed over $2,000 since Aug. 17 (CoinDesk BPI)Despite significant losses for bitcoin since mid-August, the “buy the dip” mentality in the crypto markets is still strong, blockchain data suggests. While the cryptocurrency has declined from $12,400 to $10,000 in the past three weeks, the number of "accumulation addresses" has increased by 2% to…

The payments company works with wallets and exchanges to enable crypto purchases, and could eventually use digital currencies over blockchain in the same way it processes traditional money. Visa HQ(Shutterstock)Jan 30, 2021 at 3:43 p.m. UTCVisa May Add Cryptocurrencies to Its Payments Network, Says CEOVisa CEO Al Kelly said the payments giant is in a…

Pennsylvania House passes bipartisan bill focused on bitcoin and digital asset regulation. Bill clarifies self-custody rights, bitcoin payments, and transaction taxes. Bill moves to the Senate after the election and then to the Governor's desk. 01:01 Bitcoin Breaks $64K While Gold Soars 00:56 ETH/BTC Ratio Slid to Lowest Since April 2021 00:57 Is Bitcoin Losing

Jun 30, 2020 at 21:21 UTCFrenchman Alex Masmej, 23 years old, recently raised $20,000 on Ethereum by tokenizing himself. Now he wants his investors to vote on his life choices.  His “control my life” experiment challenges token holders to tell him whether to take a run or eat only veggies. That may sound a little…

opinion Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and member of CoinDesk’s product team. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a newsletter for the institutional market, with news and views on crypto infrastructure delivered every Tuesday. Sign up here. _______ Open pretty much any mainstream financial media source and it’s hard to feel…

The topic of identity on-chain has stirred an active debate among participants. The proponents of a fully permissionless ecosystem cite “access for all” and preserving privacy as key arguments for not identifying users on a blockchain. However, the answer to the question of whether it could be beneficial to verify aspects of one’s identity while…

news Ethereum classic’s open-source developer team failed to reach a consensus Thursday on whether to move forward with a forthcoming system-wide code upgrade as outlined, effectively sending the planned batch of upgrades back to a drafting stage. Developers have been deliberating on a set of 10 proposals to be integrated into the protocol since February, an…

Nov 6, 2020 at 11:11 UTCUpdated Nov 6, 2020 at 11:16 UTCWeb search data suggests popular interest in bitcoin remains at normal levels, despite a sharp price rally to near $16,000.The top cryptocurrency has chalked up a nearly 50% gain in the past four weeks to trade as high as $15,971 earlier on Friday –…

Kenya's Ministry of the Interior suspended the operations of Worldcoin, the identity crypto protocol co-founded by OpenAI's Sam Altman, as the country's financial, security and data protection services investigate the legitimacy and data protection of the project, according to a statement posted on the ministry's Facebook page on Wednesday."The Government is concerned by the ongoing…