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Sam Bankman-Fried's defense team has officially named its sole proposed expert witness: PF2 Securities' Joseph Pimbley. We don't yet know how many other witnesses we may hear from – and, indeed, whether Bankman-Fried himself will testify.You're reading The SBF Trial, a CoinDesk newsletter bringing you daily insights from inside the courtroom where Sam Bankman-Fried will

Apr 27, 2020 at 17:53 UTCUpdated Apr 27, 2020 at 18:28 UTCBlockchain Bites: Capital-Constraining Compliance and Tether’s ‘Interoperability Bridge’Dutch regulations are causing capital constraints among crypto startups, a crypto exchange is extending credit lines and Kentucky is looking to blockchain to manage its critical infrastructure. Last week, Bittr, a Dutch crypto exchange announced it would…

news Bitcoin’s lightning network might have a use case beyond faster and more scalable payments. Last week Lightning Labs developer Joost Jager revealed an experimental, new proof of concept: Whatsat, a version of lightning that can be used to send private messages. Like bitcoin, it’s censorship-resistant. But, unlike encrypted apps that morph messages into unreadable,…

Avail, a closely watched blockchain data-availability project currently running on a test network, is sketching out the eligibility criteria for a token airdrop – a move that would follow in the footsteps of the rival data project Celestia, whose own token has gained a market capitalization of more than $1 billion.A screenshot of a document

Bitcoin mining hardware giant Bitmain is officially setting up shop in Rockdale, Texas, and expects to launch mining operations early next year.

markets One of the most important rules for trading financial markets is cutting losses quickly and letting winners run. Generally, you want to let your trades that are in the green run as long as the market is willing to provide.  Conversely, you should cut your losses and exit the position to preserve your capital…

news Even though iFinex, the parent company of Bitfinex, has not published an official white paper for its exchange token offering, one of its shareholders has already kicked off pre-orders for the token sale. On May 4, Renrenbit, a crypto-lending application founded by Bitfinex shareholder Dong Zhao, started taking in pre-orders from users who want to…

news Harbor Square Investments, a subsidiary of tokenized securities platform Harbor, has received a broker-dealer license from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), company executives told CoinDesk on Friday. The move breaks a lengthy standoff between aspiring crypto broker-dealers and the U.S. regulators who approve them. For more than a year, the Securities and Exchange Commission…

Sep 3, 2020 at 17:15 UTCUpdated Sep 3, 2020 at 17:16 UTCHouse of the Government of the Russian Federation (Aksenov Petr/Shutterstock)Russia’s Latest Draft Bill Would Still Largely Ban Crypto, Stifle MinersThe Russian Ministry of Finance has drawn up a new draft bill that echoes a previous attempt to outlaw cryptocurrency use and, if passed, would…