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Founded in 2011 as a bitcoin mining hardware manufacturer, Bitfury offers a suite of blockchain services including enterprise blockchain system Exonum, analytics platform Crystal, layer-two payment system Lightning Peach and music platform Surround. The private, for-profit Bitfury Group has raised $170 million, accepting six funding rounds spanning from 2014 to 2018. The company was founded…

news Crypto mining giant Bitmain is launching two new models for its Antminer range of bitcoin mining devices, one of which is its most powerful yet. Announced Friday, the Antminer S17e has a hash rate (mining power) of 64 terahertz per second and a power efficiency of 45 joules per TH. The numbers compare favorably…

news New financial products are coming to tezos (XTZ), one of a handful major proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchains up and running today. On Thursday, crypto startup Amun AG launched the Amun Tezos exchange-traded product (ETP), tracking the tezos cryptocurrency under the XTYZ ticker on the SIX Swiss Stock Exchange, according to a statement. Zurich-based Amun’s Tezos…

Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.Galaxy Digital’s first over-the-counter (OTC) option trade, executed earlier this week, marks a tangible step toward bringing the conventional financial system onto decentralized finance (DeFi) infrastructure.FTX’s blowup and the collapse of several crypto lenders…

Oct 30, 2020 at 18:09 UTCUpdated Oct 30, 2020 at 18:30 UTCDays before a U.S. presidential election marred by court fights over vote counting and partisan allegations of rampant mail-in ballot fraud, Overstock.com is once again touting what it calls a solution: blockchain voting.“If [voting] doesn’t work as well as it should, next week think…

Ledn processed $690 million in loans in the first quarter, 84% of which were to institutions.The firm has doubled its loan book since November 2022.The rise was attributed to spot bitcoin ETF approval in the U.S.00:59Robinhood Is Unlikely to Win in a 'Full-On Battle' With the SEC: Legal Expert00:52Key Bitcoin Indicator Signals Period of Stability

Dec 28, 2020 at 8:06 p.m. UTCOKCoin to Suspend XRP Trading and Deposits on January 4OKCoin said it will suspend XRP trading and deposits on its crypto exchange, effective on January 4, 2021, according to its statement on Monday afternoon. The exchange specified two key dates along the suspension timeline. “At 3 a.m. UTC time…

news Samsung Electronics has just revealed the cryptocurrency wallet for its just launched flagship phone, the Galaxy S10. According to a report from CoinDesk Korea published Sunday, the Samsung Blockchain Wallet is currently compatible only with ether (ETH) and ethereum-based ERC20 tokens. Bitcoin is not yet supported, despite the logo appearing on earlier pre-release presentation…

opinion John Biggs is CoinDesk’s multimedia editor. The views expressed here are his own. Bitcoin just turned 11 and it’s worth looking at what this technology has achieved. First, some context. Facebook is 14 while Twitter is 13. Linux is 28. The World Wide Web – the network you’re reading this on – is 30.…