Intuit Scores Patent for Processing Bitcoin Payments With Text Messages

In the weeks since leading non-fungible token (NFT) marketplace Blur released its lending platform Blend, it has taken 82% of total lending volume market share.According to a report from blockchain data aggregator DappRadar released on Wednesday, in its first 22 days, Blend accumulated 169,900 ETH, or about $308 million in trading volume. During that same…

Dec 24, 2019 at 20:15 UTCThe American Cancer Society (ACS), a non-profit organization committed to funding cancer research, is now accepting bitcoin donations through BitPay.“Cancer affects people from all walks of life, so it’s not surprising that we draw support from a broad cross-section of donors,” ACS exec Brant Woodward told CoinDesk. “Our mission is…

Crypto exchange Kraken filed a motion to dismiss the lawsuit it faces by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions.No fraudThe narrativeThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission didn't allege actual fraud or harms

Dec 9, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 9, 2020 at 12:11 p.m. UTCRule #1 in investing: Don't put all your eggs in one basket. (Jill Wellington / Pixabay )Bitwise’s Crypto Index Fund Becomes Available To U.S. InvestorsBitwise Asset Management, a provider of cryptocurrency index funds to professional investors, announced Wednesday that its 10 Crypto…

news Huobi Japan has received almost 500 million yen ($4.6 million) in investment from a Tokyo-listed company involved in leasing, real estate, insurance brokerage and mergers and acquisitions. According to releases from the company and the investor, Financial Products Group (FPG) purchased 499,968,000 yen worth of shares from the Japanese subsidiary of Singapore-incorporated Huobi Asset Investments…

news In a six hour trek through an insecure server, security researcher Harry Denley was able to reconstruct – and apparently shut down – a clever phishing attack that is targeting users of the Binance crypto exchange. His Medium post details the activity on a phishing site – logins-binance.com12754825.ml – that collected logins and two-factor…

The likelihood of having a spot market bitcoin ETF, or exchange-traded fund, ready to list on the market by year’s end is now a near certainty. After years of legal wrangling, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has run out the clock on applying to the U.S. Court of Appeals, which recently excoriated the

Social chatter leaned bullish Wednesday after a speculative report about a potential delay in the expected spot bitcoin ETF launch in the U.S. saw the leading cryptocurrency slide by 5%.The number of "Buy The Dip" mentions on social media rose to 323, the highest since March 25, 2022, data tracked by blockchain analytics platform Santiment

Paradigm Capital on Wednesday afternoon apparently prepped to sell its $3.5 million stash of MakerDAO governance token MKR, blockchain data from Arkham Intelligence shows.According to Arkham, 3,000 MKR were transferred from Paradigm's crypto wallet to a what was labeled as an OTC (over-the-counter) wallet. Paradigm in March did something similar, sending some $20 million of…