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Frederick Munawa is a Technology Reporter for Coindesk. He covers blockchain protocols with a specific focus on bitcoin and bitcoin-adjacent networks. Bitcoin rewards company Fold has established an office and local team in El Salvador as part of its expansion into Latin America, signaling an ongoing appetite for investment in the region despite a recent…

Mazacoin Aims to be Sovereign Altcoin for Native AmericansIceland may be the first nation to get its own cryptocurrency, but if Payu Harris has his way, it won’t be the last. This week, he hopes to mine the genesis block for mazacoin, an altcoin for the native American nation in the US. Specifically designed for…

I’m drawn to crypto because I’m drawn to stories. The space is packed with characters who are doing weird and surprising things -- sometimes brilliant, sometimes cringe, sometimes sketchy, sometimes inspiring.And then there’s the world of Doge. This is a different neighborhood of Web3: The goofy corner. A world of jokes and memes and random…

feature Hodl Hodl plans to make its software freely available so anyone can launch their own version of the peer-to-peer bitcoin exchange. Announced Saturday at the Baltic Honeybadger conference in Riga, Latvia, the plan is, in part, a recognition that Hodl Hodl’s business model is vulnerable to regulatory crackdowns. “History teaches us that if a government…

In this week's issue, we're covering crypto developers' renewed focus on the Ethereum blockchain's controversial overreliance on a single software "client" called Geth, and the grumbles of crypto users who were hoping for a bigger token airdrop from the Manta project.Top picks from this week's Protocol Village column of blockchain project updates:Highlights from the annual

Jan 7, 2021 at 6:04 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 7, 2021 at 6:26 p.m. UTCCoinbase CEO Brian Armstrong(CoinDesk archives)Coinbase Acquires Routefire to Beef Up Institutional Bitcoin OfferingLeading U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase has acquired trade execution startup Routefire. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.“While we’ll no longer be supporting the Routefire platform, we are very…

Stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Financial on Friday rolled out a smart contract codebase called Perimeter Protocol that aims to serve as an open-source foundation to build tokenized credit markets.The company said in a blog post that Perimeter can support a variety of credit use cases, including invoice factoring, payroll advances, instant settlement for merchants and

Feb 25, 2020 at 11:21 UTCBitcoin Faces Further Losses if Bulls Can’t Disrupt Bearish Chart Pattern View Bitcoin has formed a bearish head-and-shoulders (H+S) pattern with neckline support at $9,400. An H+S breakdown would imply a short-term bearish reversal and expose deeper support near $9,070. A move above $10,128 is needed to revive the immediate…

The biggest question in crypto at the moment is whether institutional investors will allocate to the asset class in a big way, the report said. Bitwise noted that the total number of institutional investors holding bitcoin ETFs rose 14% in the second quarter. Bitcoin exchange-traded funds have been adopted by institutions at the fastest rate