Kentucky Bill Seeks to Lure Crypto Miners With Tax Breaks

24H Low$119.9424H High$123.44PriceMarket Stats24H Average Transaction Fee$0.071087About DecredThe Decred project was started in 2016 by Company 0 and launched its mainnet soon after. It was led by Jake Yocom-Piatt and other software developers who previously contributed to btcsuite. It forked bitcoin to enable a hybrid consensus system combining Proof-of-Work (PoW) and Proof-of-Stake (PoS) into the…

May 7, 2020 at 11:20 UTCUpdated May 7, 2020 at 11:25 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/Vinicius BacarinFirst Mover: Bitcoin’s ‘Halving’ Is Coming Even Sooner Than You RealizeBitcoiners planning around next week's "halving" on the blockchain network need to keep checking their countdown clocks: Every time they look, it seems it's coming a little sooner.Last week, Michael Maloney, chief financial officer of Coinmint LLC, a…

Mar 20, 2020 at 13:30 UTCUpdated Mar 20, 2020 at 13:42 UTCPhoto by Fusion Medical Animation on UnsplashPreston Byrne, a columnist for CoinDesk's Opinion section, is a partner in Anderson Kill's Technology, Media and Distributed Systems Group. He advises software, internet and fintech companies. His biweekly column, “Not Legal Advice,” is a roundup of pertinent…

One of Ethereum’s top decentralized crypto trading projects, Balancer, is urging some of its customers to withdraw their tokens after the discovery of a critical vulnerability that could place tens of millions of crypto dollars at risk.They’re listening in a big way: “People are withdrawing fast,” said Xenous, a pseudonymous contributor. The protocol’s TVL dropped…

Exchanges experienced a net inflow of 62,000 ETH ($231 million) this week, suggesting a period of volatility is coming.Daily spot buying from ETH permanent holders hit its highest level in 2024 this week.A significant price correction is expected if a spot ether ETF is delayed or denied due to high levels of open interest.12:10Former SEC

news Global interbank messaging giant SWIFT has revealed it will allow blockchain firms to make use of its Global Payments Innovation (GPI) platform for near real-time payments. In a report published late last week, SWIFT said that, following a successful proof-of-concept with R3’s Corda platform, it would “soon be enabling gpi payments on DLT [distributed ledger technology]-based…

markets View Bitcoin’s weekly moving average convergence divergence histogram has turned bearish for the first time in seven months. Even so, sellers need to observe caution as that indicator had trapped bears on the wrong side of the market during the 2015-2017 bull run. A bull revival, however, would be confirmed if and when prices…

Ether recently broke above $1,400 for the first time in two years. Here are three events that could push the price even higher.(NiseriN/Getty Images)Jan 22, 2021 at 3:12 p.m. UTCEthereum’s Road to $2K: 3 Reasons to Be BullishEthereum, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, set a new all-time high of $1,439.33. This is the first…

Blockchain indexing service Subsquid's native token SQD is slated to launch this Friday with listings on multiple crypto exchanges, co-founder Marcel Fohrmann told CoinDesk.The utility token is set to back Subsquid's network of independent node operators, whose collective computing power parses reams of on-chain data. In January Subsquid sold $6.3 million worth of tokens to