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What the Oil Market Says About Bitcoin’s ‘Safe Haven’ StatusMonday’s historic financial tumult reached beyond stocks, sinking commodities and even bitcoin markets.“I don’t think any asset is safe right now – except cash, U.S. dollars,” said Ali Khedery, formerly Exxon’s senior Middle East advisor and now CEO of U.S.-based strategy firm Dragoman Ventures.While bitcoin prices…

Dan Held is the founder of crypto portfolio service Picks & Shovels. He previously founded data service ZeroBlock, which sold to Blockchain, and served as VP of product at ChangeTip.  This exclusive opinion piece is part of CoinDesk's "Bitcoin at 10: The Satoshi White Paper" series. "The root problem with conventional currency is all the…

Bitcoin failed to sustain a rally towards $70,000, influencing a broader market decline where the CoinDesk 20 index also fell by nearly 2%. U.S.-listed Bitcoin ETFs saw a break in their inflow streak with a net outflow, suggesting a shift in investor sentiment or profit-taking after recent gains. Traders said the stablecoin volume, which often

Feb 11, 2020 at 19:28 UTCUpdated Feb 11, 2020 at 19:38 UTCMonero image via Shutterstock Monero Hacker Group ‘Outlaw’ Is Back and Targeting American Business: ReportA group specializing in hijacking victims' computer power to mine for monero has returned with new tools to attack businesses based in the U.S. and Europe. Japanese cybersecurity firm Trend…

Bitcoin's (BTC) supply has become increasingly constrained with exchange balances dropping to a five-year low and making the asset primed for a potential "supply shock," Matt Weller, global head of research at Forex.com, said in an interview with CoinDesk TV Thursday.The level of available bitcoin on crypto exchanges – liquid tokens investors can easily buy

news Dapper Labs, the creator of CryptoKitties, has released a new Ethereum “smart wallet” called Dapper. The goal? To make crypto and cryptocollectables far easier to use. “Dapper is the first publicly available ‘smart wallet’ for the Ethereum blockchain,” claims Dapper CEO Roham Gharegozlou. “We’re building Dapper because blockchain is still too hard to access,…

Cryptocurrency investment firm Multicoin Capital is in talks to sell its FTX bankruptcy claim, which has a value of roughly $100 million, according to a person familiar with the plans.Positive news around the FTX bankruptcy has seen claims being sold for upward of 70 cents on the dollar and climbing towards the eighties.Firms like Multicoin

feature Law firms jockeying to represent somewhere between 90,000 and 115,000 users of QuadrigaCX will appear before the Nova Scotia Supreme Court Thursday to see which firms will be appointed representative counsel. The Canadian crypto exchange filed for, and was granted, a stay of proceedings under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) earlier this month. As…

Finance is full of misconceptions. TradFi isn’t, for example, very centralized. The global banking system is incredibly decentralized, with all different kinds of national and regional authorities and entities tying it together. Another myth is that old technology is costly and causing people to not have access to banking services. This isn’t true either. Often