Microsoft Looks to Trusted Computing for Boosting Blockchain Security

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest Prices(CoinDesk)Top StoriesBitcoin kicked off the week by reclaiming $69,000 as crypto assets ticked up across the board during the European morning. BTC is priced around $69,200 at

Mar 4, 2020 at 19:39 UTCUpdated Mar 4, 2020 at 20:29 UTCBitcoin prices, March 4, 2020.Bitcoin (BTC) is staying steady, with the 24-hour price remaining in the $8,600-$8,800 range as of 18:00 UTC (1 p.m. EST). Over the past 24 hours, the price rose a mere 0.07 percent. The surprise U.S. Federal Reserve rate cut Tuesday…

Many crypto-industry employees believe that cryptocurrencies will eventually play a much larger role in the overall financial and payments system.For now, though, almost all of them take their salaries in government-issued currencies, or "fiat" in the industry lingo.Some 97% of people in the nascent industry are paid a base salary in fiat, while only 3%

news Overstock’s security token subsidiary tZERO has announced a partnership with media company BLOQ FLIX to tokenize film financing. The company announced the plans on Thursday, amid a period of reorganization following tZERO’s quarterly loss of $10 million and Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne’s abrupt departure. Through the partnership, referred to as “Blockbuster meets blockchain” in the press…

news Philadelphia Federal Reserve bank president Patrick Harker said it is “inevitable” for the central banks, including the U.S. Federal Reserve, to start issuing digital currency. Speaking at a community banking conference in St. Louis, Harker argued that the U.S. should not be the first big country to issue a national coin, because technology is…

USDC supply has increased by over 14% since the start of December.The increase in liquidity is a sign of fresh capital inflows following the launch of spot bitcoin ETFs in the U.S.The stablecoin's presence is growing in non-U.S. markets.Circle's USDC, the second-largest stablecoin by market cap, is making a comeback, with liquidity increasing worldwide and

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesThe price of bitcoin (BTC) climbed above $42,000 – a level not seen since before the crash of Terra – for the first time since April

Hours after losing a long-running court case filed by U.S. prediction market platform Kalshi, regulators are making a hail Mary pass. Late Friday, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission filed an emergency motion asking a federal judge to grant a temporary stay of her decision in Kalshi's favor. The stay would prevent Kalshi from listing election

feature “It feels like a DAO renaissance.” That’s how Anastasia Andrianova, founder and CEO of blockchain-based financial protocol Akropolis, described her experience from both the Dappcon and ETHBerlin conferences this week. Hosted as parallel conferences for three days at the Technical University of Berlin, roughly 800 ethereum developers from all over the world gathered to…