One Year Later, A Wave of Apps Is Emerging on Bitcoin Cash

This week’s launch of the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy Exchange-Traded Fund (stock ticker BITO) may have aided the cryptocurrency’s recent price surge to an all-time high, though the perception of bitcoin as an inflation hedge over gold is probably a bigger factor, a JPMorgan strategist wrote Thursday.In its first two days of trading, BITO amassed assets…

Jun 15, 2020 at 18:34 UTCUpdated Jun 15, 2020 at 18:35 UTCCME Group bitcoin options market open interest, May 11 to June 10, 2020 (CoinDesk Research, Skew, CME)Over a recent 30-day period, the total open interest for CME bitcoin options increased more than tenfold, from $35 million on May 11 to $373 million on June…

The U.S. Consumer Price Index (CPI) for May came in softer than expected, rising just 0.1% in May versus 0.4% in April, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Economist forecasts had been for a rise of 0.2%.On a year-over-year basis, the CPI slowed to 4.0% in May versus 4.9% in April and forecasts for…

As the staking industry matures, and more node operators enter the market, the need for performance metrics becomes increasingly important for gaining a competitive edge. The Ethereum staking rate is the closest equivalent to the “risk free rate” of digital currencies. Institutional staking service operators, like Pier Two (where I work as CFO) and Figment

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome PowellBitcoin Drops 2% Following Fed’s First Emergency Rate Cut Since 2008Bitcoin prices slid Tuesday after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced an emergency cut in interest rates to counteract risks to the economy from the spreading coronavirus. The largest cryptocurrency by market value was down 2.2 percent to $8,722 as of 15:28 UTC…

Correspondence between Satoshi Nakamoto and his earliest known collaborator, Martti Malmi, was released as part of an ongoing lawsuit in the United Kingdom regarding the true identity of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator. For some, the documents represent a new avenue of research for anyone looking to finally identify who Satoshi really is. For others, the 120

Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation. He owns marginal amounts of bitcoin and ether.Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX wants to claw back nearly $4 billion in funds from similarly bankrupt Genesis Global Capital, the company said in a court filing Wednesday.Genesis was "largely repaid" the nearly $8 billion in loans made…

The National Hockey League is embracing digital collectibles, two years after several other major sports leagues aped into the NFT-fueled trend.The initiative, NHL Breakaway, was announced in conjunction with Sweet, a platform for brands to create NFT collectibles under the Ethereum ERC-721 standard on Polygon and the Ethereum mainnet, as well as the Tezos standard

Aug 12, 2020 at 21:07 UTCBlockstack co-founder Muneeb Ali speaks at Consensus 2017. (Credit: CoinDesk archives)The Stacks Foundation plans to soon begin awarding grants to Blockstack blockchain projects with its fresh reserve of 100 million Stacks tokens. Grants "will be awarded on a rolling basis," to developers and researchers iterating on Stacks blockchain 2.0, according…