eToro to Pay for Major UK Soccer Sponsorship Deal With Bitcoin

There's an account on the EOS blockchain with $35 million worth of tokens in it that no one can touch – and its balance is growing constantly. At the end of EOS' first 12 months as a live blockchain, this account (called eosio.saving) will be worth close to $192 million, assuming the recent EOS market price…

Web3 role-playing adventure game Big Time is emerging from a year-long testing phase and expects to go live in early October.Big Time aims to bring to its large community a free-to-play experience, without the sort of poorly aligned pay-to-win mechanics that have dogged other crypto-centric games.Big Time’s creators, which include the former CEO of Ethereum-based

Bitcoin mining company Greenidge Generation is eyeing expansion into Texas and buying a site in South Carolina.The Nasdaq-listed firm (NASDAQ: GREE) announced Thursday it is entering into an agreement regarding potentially constructing new data centers in Texas.It also agreed to acquire printing company LSC Communications’ facility in South Carolina. It had originally thought to lease…

Bitcoin experienced a decline, falling below $59,000 with a weekly loss of over 3.5%, amidst signs of reduced demand and net outflows from major ETFs, such as BlackRock's IBIT. However, data shows an uptick in U.S. retail investor interest, evidenced by a higher bitcoin price premium on Coinbase and increased inflows from international exchanges to

Memecoins like PUPS, DOG•GO•TO•THE•MOON, and BILLION•DOLLAR•CAT are becoming popular beta bets for Bitcoin's growth. The Runes protocol, which facilitates the creation of fungible tokens directly on Bitcoin using its UTXO model, has overtaken BRC-20 in market capitalization. Memecoins serve as a speculative asset during times of low volatility in other crypto sectors. 17:55 Are Memecoins

news A fake exchange website has managed to steal €24 million (over $27 million) in cryptocurrency from thousands of victims. European law enforcement agency Europol said in a press release Wednesday that six individuals have now been arrested over the scam in an operation that also involved the UK’s South West Regional Cyber Crime Unit and National Crime Agency, along…

House Democrats are considering their own version of a long-anticipated stablecoin bill, a person familiar with the situation told CoinDesk, but their views demonstrate a substantial rift with a parallel Republican effort.The proposal, a successor to a version spearheaded by Reps. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) and Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) last year, comes weeks after Waters said…

Jul 15, 2020 at 15:29 UTCArthur Hayes, CEO of BitMEX, at CoinDesk Consensus 2018 (ConiDesk archives)BitMEX Derivatives Exchange Operator Rebrands to ‘100x’HDR Global Trading, parent company of derivatives trading platform BitMEX, has undergone a perhaps controversial rebranding. In a Wednesday company blog post, BitMEX/HDR founder and CEO Arthur Hayes announced the parent entity now has…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Ian Allison is an award-winning senior reporter at CoinDesk. He holds ETH.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Coinbase is in talks with regulators about remaining in Canada, according to a person…