HTC Says Its Crypto-Friendly Smartphone Will Support Litecoin

OPINION Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and member of CoinDesk’s product team. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a newsletter for the institutional market, with news and views on crypto infrastructure delivered every Tuesday. Sign up here. With the market reeling from the SEC’s settlement last week with two ICO issuers…

It's hardly a blip on the charts after the major run higher following the election of Donald Trump, but crypto markets did turn somewhat lower late in the U.S. trading day Thursday after a speech from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell. "The economy is not sending any signals that we need to be in a

It’s the year 2030 and you’ve sent your humanoid robot to go buy ketchup at the grocery store. It’s a capable walker, it has dexterous hands, and it can carry more groceries than any parent. High-resolution cameras, gyroscopes and pressure sensors help the robot move quietly through the aisles with such grace that you almost

Jun 12, 2020 at 12:17 UTCCredit: Cranach/ShutterstockFirst Mover: Bitcoin Recouples With Wall Street as Stocks Tumble, Fear Trade ReturnsIn a redux of trading from the early days of the coronavirus crisis in March, bitcoin tumbled Thursday in tandem with a sell-off on Wall Street – rekindling an ongoing debate over the cryptocurrency’s use as a…

Jack Dorsey’s fintech company Block (SQ), formerly known as Square, is linking together two of its biggest platforms, merchant services system Square and peer-to-peer payments app CashApp, to give retail stores the ability to automatically convert a portion of their daily sales into bitcoin (BTC), according to an announcement on Wednesday.The tool, called Bitcoin Conversions

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest Prices(CoinDesk)Top StoriesRipple’s XRP token has dropped over 5% in the past 24 hours, falling below $0.50 for the first time since July 13. In Ripple’s legal fight

As the Celo blockchain prepares to migrate into a layer 2 network on Ethereum, there's suddenly competition to provide technology to the project.Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon Labs, submitted a proposal to the Celo community on Wednesday, pitching that the blockchain make use of Polygon’s Chain Development Kit – a codebase that developers can use

Nov 16, 2020 at 2:32 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 16, 2020 at 2:34 p.m. UTCBitcoin mining center (CoinDesk archives)China’s Crypto Miners Struggle to Pay Power Bills as Regulators Clamp Down on OTC DesksAs Chinese authorities make it harder than ever to exchange cryptocurrency into fiat, miners may be forced to move to other jurisdictions, local sources…

news Grainne McNamara, formerly PwC’s blockchain principal, has moved to rival Big Four consulting firm EY, CoinDesk has learned. McNamara joined EY in February, after three years at PwC supervising the company’s work consulting clients on the digital transformation of their businesses, especially with blockchain technology. Before PwC, she worked at Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley…