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Bitcoin miners may not get all the credit they deserve when it comes to pushing the innovation envelope. You might even call them modern day wildcatters, or the explorers who search the ends of the earth for untapped oil deposits. Or at least that’s what Gideon Powell, the chief executive of Cholla Inc., a Texas-based…

Jan 27, 2020 at 09:00 UTCTo varying degrees, crypto professionals are worried about a potential disruption of business and impact on prices from coronavirus. (Image via Shutterstock) Jason Wu had to cancel a dozen meetings with his crypto clients in China after the coronavirus epidemic broke out this month. “We planned a 10-city tour to talk…

Dan Held is the founder of crypto portfolio service Picks & Shovels. He previously founded data service ZeroBlock, which sold to Blockchain, and served as VP of product at ChangeTip.  This exclusive opinion piece is part of CoinDesk's "Bitcoin at 10: The Satoshi White Paper" series. Bitcoin's origin is akin to planting a tree. It…

In an interview with CoinDesk TV, CEO Alex Mashinsky explained why CEL has drawn recent interest from altcoin investors.(Shutterstock, modified by CoinDesk)Jan 15, 2021 at 6:45 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 15, 2021 at 7:31 p.m. UTCWhy Celsius Thinks CEL Won’t Receive the Same SEC Treatment as XRPThe CEO of cryptocurrency lender Celsius believes CEL won’t meet…

The lawmakers say Gambaryan is being held hostage and they fear for his life.The Binance exec has been detained in Nigeria for nearly three months and may be suffering from Malaria.A group of U.S. lawmakers asked President Joe Biden to bring back Tigran Gambaryan, the Binance executive who has been detained in Nigeria for almost

There was a time when skeptics and professionals alike held the belief that digital assets, cryptocurrencies in particular, might be nothing but a passing trend. That time has come and gone, and the digital asset ecosystem has matured to a point of acceptance and even acceleration. You're reading Crypto Long & Short , our weekly

Jun 20, 2020 at 16:30 UTCUpdated Jun 20, 2020 at 16:31 UTCThai currency image via ShutterstockThai Central Bank Taps Cement Company for First Digital Currency PaymentsThe Bank of Thailand is developing a prototype payments system which would rely on a central bank digital currency (CBDC).  The central bank announced Thursday that it would target businesses,…

Start with the realization that the cypherpunks were right.Back in the early 1990s, prescient software guys got both excited about the internet and anxious about a future in which it would ruin every meaningful bit of privacy.The cypherpunks’ work and their writings laid out the assumptions that would drive the cryptocurrency industry, years before the…

The U.S. SEC has asked a New York judge to impose a fine of $1.95 billion on Ripple Labs.The SEC asked the Court to consider how easily actors, particularly in the crypto asset space, can today engage in the same sort of conduct as Ripple’s.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked a New