First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Seesaws Wildly Before Settling Above $29K

April 27, 2023
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Consensus 2023, the longest-running, yearly gathering of crypto leaders and communities from around the world got underway in Austin, Texas. CoinDesk TV was live on the ground with guests including Grayscale Investments CEO Michael Sonnenshein, Animoca Brands Co-Founder and Executive Chairman Yat Siu, Crypto.com Head of Derivatives North America Travis McGhee, and Hike Founder and CEO Kavin Mittal. Grayscale Investments and CoinDesk are both owned by parent company Digital Currency Group.

(Garvinfredforsale/Flickr) J.P. Koning, a CoinDesk columnist, worked as an equity researcher at a Canadian brokerage firm and is a financial writer at a large Canadian bank. He runs the popular Moneyness blog. Understanding bitcoin is difficult. And so we cast around for the perfect metaphor. Bitcoin is email. Digital gold. eCash. Here’s a new one.…

Bithumb Taps Chainalysis for FATF-Grade Crypto Investigation Tool

Mar 10, 2020 at 18:00 UTC"Bithumb had an immediate need for Reactor to manage their hack last year, and wanted to focus on boosting their investigative skills," said Chainalysis' Maddie Kennedy. Image by Danny NelsonCryptocurrency exchange Bithumb is clamping down on suspicious transactions less than a week after South Korea, its home country, moved to…

A16z Chooses London as Destination for First Office Outside U.S.

Venture capital giant Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) chose London as the site for its first office outside the U.S., saying the U.K. government is willing to create policies that encourage startups to pursue decentralization.Menlo Park, California-based A16z plans to use the office, which will open later this year and be led by Sriram Krishnan, to invest…

Bitcoin Futures Pass $1B in Open Interest on BitMEX for First Time Since March Crash

Jul 21, 2020 at 15:00 UTCUpdated Jul 21, 2020 at 15:26 UTCBitcoin futures open interest for top exchanges as of July 21Open interest for bitcoin futures on BitMEX – the largest derivatives exchange by open interest – passed $1 billion Tuesday morning for the first time since the cryptocurrency market crash in March, a sign…

Tron’s Takeover of Steemit Is Internet History Repeating Itself

Mar 5, 2020 at 12:10 UTCUpdated Mar 5, 2020 at 12:34 UTCTron’s Takeover of Steemit Is Internet History Repeating ItselfValerian Bennett is Managing Director of the Pop Network Foundation, which is dedicated to helping creators and communities find their freedom by decentralizing the streaming economy. He is a graduate of the BoostVC accelerator (Tribe 8)…

New AI Chatbot Plugs Into Your Crypto Wallet

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Danny is CoinDesk's Managing Editor for Data & Tokens. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.The AI overlords are coming for your coins.DeFi lender marginFi on…

S&P, State Street Lead $15M Investment in Crypto Data Startup Lukka

Dec 10, 2020 at 2:30 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 10, 2020 at 2:53 p.m. UTCWall Street awaits.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images)S&P, State Street Lead $15M Investment in Crypto Data Startup LukkaFinancial data giant S&P Global and institutional asset manager State Street Corp. are headlining a $15 million investment in Lukka, the blockchain data startup set to power S&P…

Bitcoin Sees Its First Ever Weekly ‘Golden Cross’

Market enthusiasts call it a “golden cross,” indicating a positive shift in asset prices, and now this marker has finally appeared on the bitcoin (BTC) weekly price chart.The 50-week simple moving average (SMA) on bitcoin has crossed over the 200-week SMA for the first time on record, confirming the golden cross. The phrase and its

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