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news Over 700,000 user accounts from a freelancing website are moving onto the EOS blockchain. Moonlighting, a marketplace for freelance professionals launched in 2014, has taken on a $5 million investment round led by the FinLab EOS VC fund, a joint venture of FinLab AG and Block.one. The investment will be used to grow Moonlighting’s user…

Over 250 BTC from the early days of bitcoin, known as the "Satoshi era," were transferred on Friday in five separate transactions, each moving 50 BTC to new wallets, with a total value close to $13 million. As of press time, there hasn’t been any movement from the new wallets to crypto exchanges. This movement

The Top Universities for Blockchain – MethodologyCoinDesk’s 2020 Blockchain University Rankings are by no means the first attempt to create such a list. However, it is, to our knowledge, the most comprehensive and nuanced consideration of universities’ impact on the blockchain field. As we collected data, sent out surveys and spoke with schools across the…

Bitcoin briefly surged above $68,000, driven by positive U.S. election predictions, before settling around $67,500 during early Asian trading hours on Monday. The broader crypto market, as represented by the CoinDesk 20 index, saw a 1.25% increase. President Biden’s announcement of not running in the upcoming election was seen as potentially favorable for the digital

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Helene is a U.S. markets reporter at CoinDesk, covering the US economy, the Fed, and bitcoin. She is a recent graduate of New York University's business and economic reporting program.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place…

Jan 14, 2020 at 23:42 UTCUpdated Jan 14, 2020 at 23:47 UTCCraig Wright, bitcoin’s self-declared creator, says the much anticipated “bonded courier” has arrived. According to a court filing to the U.S. District Court of Southern Florida dated Jan. 14, a third party has “provided the necessary information and key slice to unlock the encrypted file,”…

Aug 5, 2020 at 09:10 UTCUpdated Aug 5, 2020 at 09:11 UTC(Alexander Khoruzhenko/Shutterstock)A dark-web vendor and his supplier, who allegedly used the murky recesses of the internet to sell drugs and launder money, have been formally charged in the U.S. David Pate and pharmacist Jose Hou were both indicted by a federal grand jury in…

Jul 14, 2020 at 21:03 UTC(Screenshot from YouTube, courtesy of RecklessVR)This New Coding Language Could Help Unlock Bitcoin’s Smart Contract PotentialBitcoin Core contributor Jeremy Rubin has revealed his work on a new smart-contract language for Bitcoin, which he hopes will increase the “financial self-sovereignty” of users. Rubin demoed the new language, Sapio, on Saturday at…

Jan 13, 2020 at 17:55 UTCUpdated Jan 13, 2020 at 18:26 UTCOn today's episode...Whether you’re a first time listener or you’ve heard every episode, we’d like to know what you think about the show. What do you like? What you don’t like? What you think we’ve totally missed but should be talking about every day or…