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When trying to determine if your crypto company might be unwittingly employing North Korean workers, sometimes it helps to pay attention to little details that just don't seem to add up – such as when your workers claim they were distracted by an earthquake in Japan, when there was no recent earthquake in Japan. That's

Former hedge fund manager and host of CNBC’s Mad Money, Jim Cramer Tuesday evening continued with his recent bearish stance on crypto, a stark contrast to what another hedge funder said earlier that day on CNBC.“I can’t go out with gold because gold is not good; I can’t go out with bitcoin (BTC) because I

news TradingView, the U.S.-based provider of financial markets data charts and analysis, has added a cryptocurrency index to its platform for the first time. Crypto exchange Huobi announced Monday that TradingView has added its “HB10” index, in a move it said showed the “continued maturation” of the digital assets industry. The index can already be…

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…

Sep 17, 2020 at 10:56 UTCUpdated Sep 17, 2020 at 11:04 UTCJames Emmett, MD at Libra Networks (courtesy Libra Association)The Libra Association, the organisation developing the Facebook-led cryptocurrency payments project, has hired a banking heavyweight to help drive the initiative forward. The Geneva, Switzerland-based organisation announced Thursday that former HSBC executive James Emmett will take…

The influx of traditional finance into crypto and the emergence of international variations in regulations is prompting contrasting responses from stablecoin issuers such as Tether and Circle.Circle admonishes what it sees as U.S. lawmakers’ inaction and wants greater alignment in crypto rules between nations.Tether, more focused on developing countries, says it is frustrated by the

Clients of Singapore bank DBS can now collect payments from customers in e-CNY, China's central bank digital currency (CBDC), according to an announcement on Wednesday.The newly launched merchant collection platform allows businesses automated settlement of e-CNY into their bank deposit accounts. At least one client has already used this platform for a transaction, DBS added.DBS…

news The mobile bitcoin wallet project Samourai Wallet is partnering with the French hardware retailer Nodl to create a bitcoin node device that syncs with Samourai’s privacy-centric mobile wallet. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Nodl co-founder Michel Luczak said this new product will be a “full, self-validating, bitcoin and lightning node” that allows people to use…

Payments provider Cuscal, through its partner Zepto, has brought new banking restrictions on cryptocurrency exchanges in Australia, according to a statement criticizing the move from Blockchain Australia, the nation's industry body.Last month, Cuscal cut off payment services to Binance Australia. At the time, Binance Australia said that it will no longer be able to facilitate…