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Here's what the impending Eth 2.0 hard fork means, and why Ethereum devs are still debating the “Ice Age.”Jan 27, 2021 at 12:30 p.m. UTCValid Points: What to Expect When Ethereum 2.0 Undergoes Its First ‘Hard Fork’Eth 2.0 is looking at its first hard fork this year.The Ethereum Foundation-backed research team is currently organizing schematics…

May 28, 2020 at 17:18 UTCGoldman Sachs office, Jersey City, N.J. (Credit: Akshay Sadarangani/Unsplash)What Goldman Gets Wrong About Bitcoin (From Someone Who Used to Work There)Jill Carlson, a CoinDesk columnist, is co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit research organization working to guarantee the right to a free and open financial system. She is…

Sale of as much as $8 million of nodes to whitelisted buyers would begin on Nov. 6. Additional node sales after that could increase total raised to $37 million. Huddle01's "dRTC Chain" is built using the Ethereum layer-2 project Arbitrum's Orbit software stack, with a test network scheduled to launch two weeks after the node

Alex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Alex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Omkar Godbole was a senior reporter on CoinDesk's Markets team.Alex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take…

A recent report published by the New York Office of the Attorney General (OAG), which claimed several cryptocurrency exchanges it investigated are vulnerable to market manipulation, has drawn backlash from industry players. In a blog post published Thursday, Coinbase's chief policy officer, Mike Lempres, wrote that the OAG's assertions in the report have led to misrepresentation of…

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission didn't have the authority to "conduct a public interest review" that led it to block Kalshiex from listing political prediction markets in the U.S., a federal judge said in a formal opinion Thursday.. Judge Jia Cobb, of the District of Columbia, published her long-anticipated opinion nearly a week after

Cryptocurrency exchange Binance spun off its venture capital arm, Binance Labs, earlier this year, among one of the most notable actions of new CEO Richard Teng, who replaced Changpeng "CZ" Zhao in November, Bloomberg reported Friday.Binance Labs has a disclaimer on its website saying it is "an independent venture and not part of the Binance

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Oct 22, 2020 at 08:00 UTCEyeing EU Banks, Hex Trust Teams With SIA on Crypto CustodyMultinational payments firm Sia is partnering with cryptocurrency custodian Hex Trust to help its European banking clients hold digital assets.“When you have one bitcoin, it’s not a big problem, but when you start adding 10, 20 or 100, you have…