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

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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.

Please consider using a different web browser for better experience.Please enable JavaScript in your browser for a better site experience.VideosRecent VideosThe Breakdown: Why $2 Trillion in US Stimulus, Unlimited QE Will Expose Monetary System’s FlawsMar 25, 2020The U.S. government approved a $2 trillion stimulus package after the Federal Reserve pledged “unlimited” quantitative easing to stabilize…

Barclays’ Former Russian Bank Has Issued a Token-Collateralized Loans

Aug 19, 2020 at 12:21 UTCUpdated Aug 19, 2020 at 12:24 UTCMoscow at night (Shutterstock)Barclays’ Former Russian Bank Has Issued a Token-Collateralized LoansExpobank, the former Russian subsidiary of global investment bank Barclays has followed Silvergate and issued out a loan that uses tokens, in this case, WAVES, as collateral. The loan was made to an…

Blockchains Don’t Have to Be Perfect, They Just Have to Be Better

Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk's advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers. There's a moment during almost every presentation I give on blockchain technology's potential to address…

Chinese Regulators Blast Crypto Fundraising in New Joint Warning

Regulatory agencies in China have jointly issued a warning against illegal fundraising and trading activities involving cryptocurrencies. The warning was issued on Friday by six high-level watchdogs: the People's Bank of China, the Banking Regulatory Commission, the Securities Regulatory Commission, the Ministry of Public Security, the Central Cyberspace Affairs Commission, and the State Administration for…

New York Man Charged With Trafficking Credit Card Info, Using Bitcoin to Launder Proceeds

May 28, 2020 at 17:23 UTCA New York City man has been indicted for allegedly stealing and selling reams of payment card data, the proceeds of which he laundered in bitcoin. Vitalii Antonenko, 28, was charged in the U.S District Court for the District of Massachusetts on Tuesday with conspiracy to engage in computer hacking,…

As Bitcoin Falls to 2-Week Lows, Small Investors Look to Be Buying

May 25, 2020 at 11:54 UTCUpdated May 25, 2020 at 12:31 UTCWith bitcoin’s price losing altitude again, small investors appear to be seeking exposure to the top cryptocurrency by market value. Prices fell by 9.8% last week to register bitcoin’s biggest weekly decline since the second week of March, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index. A…

Protocol Village: Morph EVM Raises $19M in Seed Round Led by Dragonfly

March 21: Morph, a fully permissionless Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM) layer 2 for value-driven dApps, announced the close of a $19 million seed round, led by DragonFly Capital with additional participation from Pantera Capital, Foresight Ventures, The Spartan Group, MEXC Ventures, Symbolic Capital, Public Works, MH Ventures, Everyrealm, with an additional $1MM raised in an

Crypto Unmentioned at First 2024 U.S. Presidential Debate

Crypto did not come up during the first general debate in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, despite industry participants' hopes. This first debate between current President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump – each their parties' presumptive nominee – was held Thursday in Atlanta, Georgia by CNN, hosted by CNN anchors Jake Tapper and

Markets Daily: ETF Arguments and China Token Troubles

Nov 25, 2019 at 17:00 UTCUpdated Nov 25, 2019 at 17:20 UTCWelcome to the CoinDesk Markets Daily Podcast, a 10-minute look at what's driving the crypto markets today. The podcast appears daily and we'd love you to subscribe in your favorite podcast app or grab the MP3 here.Tune in as CoinDesk podcasts editor Adam B.…

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