Digital Asset Outflows Continue for 6th Week Despite Bitcoin Price Surge

Jul 31, 2020 at 12:46 UTCUpdated Jul 31, 2020 at 13:29 UTCCamila Russo, Adam Levine, Ken Seiff and Anthony D’Onofrio (clockwise from upper left) discuss Ethereum's early days on CoinDesk Live. (Screenshot)CoinDesk Live Recap: Co-Founders Revisit Ethereum’s Launch DramaSeveral Ethereum co-founders view the project as a wild success and some are even more bullish now…

Fresh in from the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland: Howard Lutnick, chairman and CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, has reiterated claims that Tether has the money the stablecoin issuer claims to have. Cantor has been a Tether custodian since late 2021, and as such has been able to examine portions of the stablecoin issuer's balance

24H Low$1.7324H High$1.85PriceMarket Stats24H Average Transaction Feen/aAbout AlgorandAlgorand is a proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain that supports smart contracts. Its protocol uses Pure PoS, through which users are selected on a random and secret basis to propose blocks and vote on proposals. In that way, the blockchain ensures that each user’s influence on the choice of a…

Binance and its founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao have been treated the way they have been in the U.S. because the crypto exchange – and other centralized exchanges – represent a threat to the traditional American-led global financial system, former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes argues in a new essay posted on his Substack account.Last week, Binance

Oct 5, 2020 at 20:21 UTCUpdated Oct 5, 2020 at 20:36 UTCThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sued John McAfee for allegedly pumping initial coin offerings (ICOs) without disclosing he was being paid to do so.McAfee, a software magnate-turned-fugitive already on the run for alleged tax fraud, allegedly received BTC and ETH worth…

Legislation has been proposed for the United States government to stock up a pile of bitcoin for a strategic reserve, starting with seized bitcoin the government already holds. Many have questions: What’s the legality of keeping the seized bitcoin? How is holding bitcoin going to decrease the deficit? Why does the U.S. government need to

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Omkar Godbole was a senior reporter on CoinDesk's Markets team.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Investors are having a relook at the futures market tied to payments-focused cryptocurrency XRP amid hopes…

news The Takeaway Prior to publishing details about real Binance customers online Wednesday, a hacker operating under the pseudonym “Bnatov Platon” had a month-long conversation with CoinDesk reporters. In the talks, Platon revealed how he allegedly hacked individuals behind an earlier hack in which 7,000 bitcoin was stolen from the world’s largest exchange. Platon claimed…

IBM is taking its long-in-the-works blockchain-based payment system out of beta, with the launch of a new product called Blockchain World Wire. Aimed at institutions and harnessing the stellar blockchain network, Big Blue says its new financial rail "can simultaneously clear and settle cross-border payments in near real-time." Similar to other blockchain-based payment networks such as Ripple,…