Over $26M Worth of Bitcoin Associated With 2016 Bitfinex Hack Is on the Move

Mar 10, 2020 at 15:00 UTCUpdated Mar 10, 2020 at 15:41 UTCRichard Craib, Numerai's founder, speaks in New York City, April 2019. (Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk)Numerai is opening its Erasure protocol to the world.Erasure is a smart contract on Ethereum for people to share information and to express confidence about that information by…

Jun 29, 2020 at 20:44 UTCUpdated Jun 29, 2020 at 20:45 UTCBitcoin opened the week still stuck in a price range just above $9,000 Monday, moving less than 0.2% from Friday’s close as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), according to Bitstamp. At 00:00 UTC on Monday (8:00 p.m. Sunday ET), bitcoin (BTC) was changing…

Crypto exchange Kraken filed to dismiss a lawsuit by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday.The SEC sued Kraken last November on allegations it's operating as an unregistered exchange, broker and clearinghouse.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission didn't allege fraud and stretched the definition of a contract in its lawsuit against Kraken, the

feature Banking giant Wells Fargo says its blockchain for internal cross-border money transfers is faster and more efficient than SWIFT, the global messaging system used by over 11,000 financial institutions. Unveiled this week, Wells Fargo Digital Cash uses R3’s Corda Enterprise software to handle internal book transfers, when funds move from a payer’s account to…

Miners appear to have just sold long-dormant bitcoin, sourced from old block rewards, right when BTC plunged from its record high on Tuesday.Given the market's thin liquidity, it could have had an outsized impact on bitcoin's price.Bitcoin's rapid price ascent during the last month, which culminated in a new all-time high and quick reversal on

Warren Buffett (Credit: Shutterstock)Blockchain Bites: Hyperledger Makes Inroads, Bitcoin Gets ‘Harder’ and Buffett’s Not ‘Halving’ ItThere's a lot of action happening in enterprise-grade blockchains. Big Blue's preferred chain, Hyperledger, is being tapped by three energy grid operators, a new consortium to establish digital identities for public and private organizations and has been shown to perform…

Deribit's bitcoin volatility index jumps to its highest since late July. Implied volatility in EUR/USD and U.S. Treasury notes surges to at least one-year highs. Markets price a significant risk premium around the impending U.S. elections. An options-based measure of expected price swings in bitcoin (BTC) has hit a three-month high amid indications from betting

(Lightspring/Shutterstock)Free Speech vs. Cancel Culture: Reasons for OptimismJill Carlson, a CoinDesk columnist, is co-founder of the Open Money Initiative, a non-profit research organization working to guarantee the right to a free and open financial system. She is also an investor in early-stage startups with Slow Ventures. This op-ed is the second of two parts. See…

May 21, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated May 21, 2020 at 13:23 UTCKyber Network CEO Loi Luu (Credit: Kyber Network)Why Kyber Network Tokens Tripled to $100M Despite the Coronavirus RecessionKyber may be the Great Lockdown’s hottest token project. According to the analytics firm Flipside Crypto, the Kyber Network is one of the fastest-growing token projects so far…