MARKETS DAILY HOLIDAYS: HODL?

Shares of bitcoin mining company GRIID Infrastructure (GRDI) extended their drop into the second day after the Cincinnati, Ohio-based firm completed its listing on Nasdaq this week following its merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Adit EdTech Acquisition Corp.Shortly after its Nasdaq debut on Monday, GRIID shares were trading at around $7.30, down

news Grin, a cryptocurrency that leverages the mimblewimble privacy technology, has just gone live on mainnet. Named after the tongue-tying curse in the Harry Potter book series, mimblewimble is a protocol that fuses transactions together such that they are indecipherable – even on a public digital ledger. While it has been in the works since late…

Oct 19, 2020 at 18:08 UTCUpdated Oct 19, 2020 at 18:09 UTCRussia’s most notorious state cyberhackers used bitcoin to cover their ties to critical hacking campaign “infrastructure” such as servers and domain names, according to an indictment unsealed Monday by U.S. prosecutors.Six members of Russia's state-run hacking teams who allegedly targeted "thousands" of victims across…

Bitcoin is the non-sovereign reserve currency of the digital world, and from an investment management perspective, it can uniquely and inexpensively diversify well-balanced portfolios to improve total risk-adjusted returns. However, while there have been many ways to gain exposure to crypto’s apex asset, there has long been one glaring hole, the holy grail of access

news A trio of researchers say they’ve discovered a way to detect and punish dishonest blockchain participants, according to a paper published at the end of May. “The (virtual) gold rush is on, and as in the Wild West of yore, the outlaws are ever present,” states the paper, entitled Polygraph: Accountable Byzantine Agreement.  The authors…

news Ripple’s second-quarter report released Wednesday came with a few surprises: a gain, a loss, and a new partner. The distributed ledger technology firm’s total sales of XRP increased by nearly 48 percent to $251 million in the quarter, outpacing the first quarter’s $169 million in sales. Direct institutional sales drove the uptick, increasing nearly 73 percent to…

A lot of people are saying, people inside CoinDesk, that nobody's going to read anything on Wednesday that isn't elections-related. Well maybe they don't know about all the INCREDIBLE CONTENT we have assembled in this week's The Protocol newsletter? There's even an ongoing election to keep you entertained. 02:31 Bitcoin Hits Record High as Donald

news Ethereum mining pool Sparkpool has located and verified the accidental sender of an unusually high miners’ fee and agreed to split the amount. In a statement provided to CoinDesk, Sparkpool said it received an email from an anonymous user on Feb. 25, claiming that they had made a mistake by attaching the 2,100 ether (ETH)…

Peter Schiff, a prominent stockbroker and gold investor, rejected the opportunity to invest in bitcoin when it was trading at a few dollars in 2010.Despite his long-standing criticism and comparing bitcoin to "tulip mania 2.0," Schiff said he would have invested solely for the potential profit, likening it to a gamble rather than a "genius"