MicroStrategy Buys $175M More in Bitcoin, Upping BTC Holdings to $425M

Apr 24, 2020 at 16:04 UTCUpdated Apr 24, 2020 at 16:17 UTCPhoto by Lianhao Qu on UnsplashMoney Reimagined: A World Where Privacy and Saving Lives Can CoexistDefenders of Washington’s COVID-19 response say it’s unfair to compare surging U.S. death rates with the far lower numbers in countries such as South Korea or Singapore because Americans…

Mar 25, 2020 at 19:47 UTCUpdated Mar 25, 2020 at 20:33 UTCU.S. Capitol image via ShutterstockLegislation introduced in the U.S. Congress this week signals the Overton Window – a metric of what’s politically feasible – is opening in favor of national digital currencies. While it’s unlikely we’ll see a digital dollar any time soon, the coronavirus…

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Bitcoin short-term holders took profits last week, according to CryptoQuant.Ether, Solana’s SOL, BNB Chain’s BNB and Cardano’s ADA slumped more than 9%.Bitcoin (BTC) slipped under $63,000 in European morning hours Tuesday, causing a marketwide tumble that saw overall capitalization drop 8% in the past 24 hours.The losses came after a day of large outflows from

JPMorgan has carried out its first live blockchain-based collateral settlement transaction involving BlackRock and Barclays, the U.S. banking giant said on Wednesday.JPMorgan’s Ethereum-based Onyx blockchain and the bank’s Tokenized Collateral Network (TCN) was used by BlackRock to tokenize shares in one of its money market funds. The tokens were then transferred to Barclays Plc for

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.A bullish inverse head-and-shoulders price pattern is building in the combined market capitalization of altcoins. The term “altcoin” is short for “alternative coin” and, in this case, refers…

news Developers will soon be able to test applications on a live version of blockchain interoperability protocol Polkadot. Kusama, an experimental and unaudited version of the $1.2 billion network, was launched on Friday at the tail-end of Berlin Blockchain Week. As highlighted in a blog post by Polkadot creator Gavin Wood, it will be somewhere…

The price of XRP, the world's third-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, jumped 6 percent on Monday, to reach its highest total in 30 days, according to CoinDesk data. At 15:01 UTC, the cryptocurrency rose to $0.49 cents for the first time since Oct. 8, and was last seen trading at $0.4950, marking roughly a 6.14 percent…

Dec 11, 2019 at 00:00 UTCUpdated Dec 11, 2019 at 00:00 UTCRipple’s Revamped Xpring Platform Looks to Boost XRP DevelopmentRipple has condensed its broad Xpring developer platform into a single site. The new platform aims to allow crypto and non-crypto developers to integrate payments into any mobile application. Now, Xpring.io offers those developers a wallet, new…