It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Bitcoin | 2020 Holiday Episode

Crypto miners, whose shares are most levered to bitcoin prices, surged on Wednesday after the price of the largest cryptocurrency hit an all-time high, trading above $66,000 for the first time.Canada-based bitcoin miner Hive Blockchain Technologies (HIVE), which mines in cooler temperature regions and uses low-cost, renewable energy for its operations, was the best performer…

news The first ever cryptocurrency firm to be listed on a major stock exchange has launched a new bitcoin fund. DigitalX, which debuted on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) under its previous name DigitalBTC as far back as 2015, announced the new fund on Wednesday. The firm said it’s offering qualifying wholesale and professional investors…

Oct 27, 2020 at 12:11 UTCUpdated Oct 27, 2020 at 12:26 UTC(Roman Tiraspolsky/Shutterstock)Investment banking giant JPMorgan is about to see the first commercial transactions with its own cryptocurrency, JPM Coin.According to a report from CNBC Tuesday, Takis Georgakopoulos, JPMorgan global head of wholesale payments, said a major tech firm will use the token to make…

Consensys, the Ethereum software developer firm that built the MetaMask wallet, shared Tuesday that it is launching a “MetaMask Delegation Toolkit,” aimed at making the user experience of blockchain applications more seamless. The news was announced at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) in Brussels, Belgium, where the company plans to begin onboarding developers to use

While bitcoin ETFs have frequently been cited for sparking the huge, recent BTC price rally, dramatically lower interest rates are helping, too.This has bitcoin prices in a place they haven't been in about two years: soaring breathlessly, with some calling for continued gains.For months, conventional wisdom has been that bitcoin's (BTC) sharp rally, which took

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.Shaurya is the Co-Leader of the CoinDesk tokens and data team, focusing on decentralized finance, markets, on-chain data, and…

Sep 18, 2020 at 10:35 UTCUpdated Sep 18, 2020 at 10:38 UTCA miner plying his trade in 1958. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)Miners on crypto’s second-biggest blockchain had a bumper day Thursday, earning a record $16 million for confirming a growing number of DeFi-related transactions. Data collected from Etherscan shows miners collected a total 42,763 ether in…

The bitcoin (BTC) hashrate continues to hit new all-time highs as competition between miners escalates ahead of the next halving event, expected second-quarter 2024, JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report Thursday.The halving will reduce issuance rewards to 3.125 BTC from 6.25 BTC, “implying a reduction in miners’ revenues, effectively increasing bitcoin’s production cost at…

Jul 10, 2020 at 09:00 UTCAt an AirdropVenezuela event. (AirTM)A Rare Glimpse Into How Crypto Is Really Used in VenezuelaOver the past two years, many bitcoin believers donated cryptocurrency to initiatives in Venezuela, often holding up the small nation as the pinnacle example of the technology’s potential. The truth on the ground is much more…