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Analysts and mining pools say selling pressure from mining wallets hasn't contributed to recent corrections in bitcoin's price. (Shutterstock)Jan 14, 2021 at 10:24 p.m. UTCBitcoin Miners Aren’t Responsible for Recent Price Dips, Data Shows“Miners are selling” is a popular trope used to explain bitcoin’s occasional downward price action. But on-chain data doesn’t support this narrative,…

In a speech at a Reuters online event Wednesday, Lagarde said bitcoin was a speculative asset.Jan 13, 2021 at 10:29 a.m. UTCECB’s Christine Lagarde Says ‘Speculative’ Bitcoin Needs RegulationEuropean Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said bitcoin has facilitated “funny business” needs to be regulated at a Reuters online event Wednesday.Lagarde also described bitcoin as…

Upbit, a South Korean cryptocurrency exchange, surpassed centralized exchanges Coinbase and OKX in terms of trading volume for the first time in July, according to a report by CCData.Centralized exchanges Coinbase and OKX saw their trading volume decline in July, with Coinbase’s volumes dropping by 11.6% to $28.6 billion, while OKX witnessed a 5.8% decline…

Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Amitoj Singh is CoinDesk's regulatory reporter covering India. He holds BTC and ETH below CoinDesk's…

Jake Chervinsky is a lawyer, just not yours. A litigator with New York-based Kobre & Kim, Chervinsky has become a preeminent Twitter personality thanks to his insightful, informative tweets about cryptocurrency, and particularly ETFs. Chervinsky joins host Nolan Bauerle to talk about the SEC, enforcement, and the Twitter school of law. Register for Consensus to…

markets In ending last week in the red, the world’s fifth-largest cryptocurrency, litecoin, has confirmed its longest weekly losing streak in a year. LTC suffered an 8 percent drop in the week ended Sept. 1, having registered 3.17, 15.10, and 5.74 percent losses in the preceding three weeks, according to Bitfinex data. That is the…

In just over a year since ChatGPT’s debut release, generative AI has arguably become the most influential global narrative today. OpenAI’s early success drove a surge in investor interest for large language models (LLMs) and AI applications, attracting $25 billion in funding in 2023 (up 5x YoY!), in pursuit of the potential multi-trillion-dollar market opportunity.You're

news The Winklevoss twins are adding some muscle to Gemini’s security team. Announced this morning, David Damato will be joining Gemini as the Chief Security Officer. Damato joins Gemini from Tanium, a top cybersecurity firm, where he held the same position for four years. Damoto joins Gemini with over 20 years experience in the field.…

When I first started seeing references to ERC-404 tokens on social media early this week, I thought it was a funny joke — a non-existent token referencing the error message you sometimes see while surfing the web, HTTP 404, meaning “page not found.” When I learned a little later that the project is real, I