Mount Sinai Hospital to Explore Blockchain Applications

Speaking of Bitcoin on the CoinDesk Podcast Network is brought to you by CrystalBlockchain.com.Why did a joke cryptocurrency with zero ambition find massive success, yet a calculated military campaign with plenty of ambition turned into a massive failure? With the right leverage, ten men can fight like one hundred, and one coin can spend like…

news The Financial Supervisory Authority of Iceland (FME) has approved Reykjavik-based Monerium as its first electronic money institution. The designation, announced Friday, means that Monerium has regulatory approval to provide fiat payment services on a blockchain and use it throughout the European Economic Area. Electronic money is a well-established regulatory framework in Europe that’s been…

news On Friday, Sept. 6, bitcoiners around the world are vowing to run in memory of the late Hal Finney. Anyone is invited and dozens of the technology’s enthusiasts have already pledged to join. Finney has long been touted as one of the first people to see the promise of bitcoin, long before it had…

Lack of risk management in financial bets by the Kujira Foundation led to a 55% drop in KUJI token prices within 24 hours. Liquidations of leveraged positions by Kujira's operational wallet resulted in significant losses and further price declines. Kujira plans to establish a DAO to manage its treasury and core protocols, aiming to reduce

Security researchers have discovered a new botnet that, rather than posing a threat, seems to be seeking out and destroying a type of crypto-mining malware. Called Fbot, the botnet is a variant of one called Satori, which is in turn based on Mirai – a program normally used for DDoS attacks. Unusually, the DDoS module seems…

Jul 15, 2020 at 09:53 UTCMazatlan, Mexico (Vivid Pixels/Shutterstock)Two promoters of the crypto Ponzi scheme OneCoin were found dead in Mexico last month. A report last Friday by La Tercera said the bodies, identified as Oscar Brito Ibarra and Ignacio Ibarra (apparently not relations), had been found in suitcases by local police on June 30.The…

news Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase brought in almost $520 million in global revenue in 2018, according to an estimate from Reuters. The news source based the figure on the exchange’s U.K. revenue, which grew 20 percent last year to 153 million euros ($173 million), according to a filing with the U.K.’s corporate registry. The British side…

Sep 10, 2020 at 16:00 UTCBitcoin News Roundup for Sept. 10, 2020With bitcoin lawsuits in the news and SushiSwap’s migration completed, CoinDesk’s Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup! For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases , subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io. Today’s stories: Some…

news An experimental version of blockchain interoperability protocol Polkadot will go live later this summer. Led by Swiss nonprofit Web3 Foundation, the Polkadot team says the “early, unaudited and unrefined release of Polkadot” will be called Kusama. “Kusama will serve as a proving ground, allowing teams and developers to build and deploy a parachain or try…