First Mover: Two Weeks From Halving, Bitcoin Rally Brings $10K Into View

Crypto prices are sharply lower on Thursday, led by bitcoin's 4% decline. A re-acceleration in inflation pressure in September initially sent markets lower. Declines grew after an SEC lawsuit against digital asset market maker Cumberland DRW. BTC will likely trade range-bound until the U.S. election, Lekker Capital's Quinn Thompson said in a Telegram interview. Cryptocurrencies

Jul 28, 2020 at 13:47 UTCUpdated Jul 28, 2020 at 13:48 UTC(Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, modified using PhotoMosh)Why Bitcoin-Like Scarcity Would Be a Disaster for the DollarFrances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics. Her book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing” explains how modern money creation and quantitative…

news Ethereum could become the first public blockchain on Hyperledger if the open-source consortium’s technical steering committee approves a proposal to adopt the ConsenSys-backed Pantheon project. Pantheon is a suite of ethereum-based services built by PegaSys, a 50-strong engineering team at ConsenSys. The Pantheon ethereum client, built on Java, is used to develop enterprise applications with…

Payments-focused XRP has set a bullish precedent for market leader bitcoin (BTC) with a move above key price resistance that has opened doors for a sustained rally.XRP surged nearly 60% last week, registering its best performance since August 2021. The rally saw prices move convincingly above a technical analysis indicator called "Ichimoku cloud" on the…

A federal judge on Thursday threatened former FTX executive Ryan Salame with sanctions. Salame admitted to lying to the judge about persecutors not making promises to him as part of his plea deal last year. The judge said he would need time to consider next steps on the matter but told Salame he will have

Newly-launched bald (BALD) tokens on the Base blockchain fell as much as 90% after peaking on Monday as the token's deployer removed millions of dollars worth of liquidity, data shows.BALD held as much as $32 million ether (ETH) during European morning hours on Monday. However, the developer apparently moved millions - causing prices to fall…

The legislation offers crypto companies such as wallets and exchanges a license for operating across the bloc in exchange for meeting governance and consumer protection norms, and also introduces reserve requirements for stablecoins. If approved, it will be published in the EU’s official journal and takes effect between one and three years later.

The Cardano blockchain successfully mitigated a DDoS attack that attempted to steal staked tokens, with no significant impact on the network's operation. The attack involved transactions executing numerous smart contracts and was halted after a Cardano developer's post revealed a vulnerability, leading to the attacker's funds being taken. The Cardano blockchain was hit by a

TRES, a cryptocurrency accounting and taxation reporting platform, has raised $11 million to expand its service to all corners of the blockchain industry.The Tel Aviv-based company currently supports over 100 layer-1 and layer-2 networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Avalanche, and aims to add support for "new blockchains every week," according to an emailed announcement