Reclaiming Purpose in Crypto: CoinDesk’s Projects to Watch 2023

The U.S. added 187,000 jobs in August versus expectations for 170,000 and up from a downwardly revised 157,000 in July (revised from 187,000).The unemployment rate for August was 3.8% versus forecasts for 3.5% and last month's 3.5%.The price of bitcoin (BTC) was little-changed at just above $26,000 in the minutes following Friday morning's report from

Six tech giants, including Facebook, Square and PayPal, have been ordered to hand over information relating to payments to the U.S. consumer finance watchdog agency.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has ordered information about the payments products, plans and practices of Google, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Square and PayPal.Of the six companies, Facebook, Square and PayPal’s…

The U.K. Judicial Office shared this extract from the transcript of the COPA v Wright trial on March 14, 2024, after Justice James Mellor ruled that Craig Wright is not Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto. I thank all the parties for their written closing and oral arguments, and they've been very helpful indeed. They will require

Blockchain-based asset-management firm Superstate debuted its first tokenized U.S. Treasury fund offering on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, the company said Thursday in a press release. Superstate created its own private fund to directly hold short duration Treasury bills, and is targeting returns in line with the federal funds rate. Investors may make deposits in U.S.

Mar 23, 2020 at 18:39 UTCStorm image via ShutterstockBitcoin: A Global Port in a Market Storm?Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and CoinDesk’s director of research. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own.The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a weekly newsletter focused on institutional investment in crypto…

feature Hundreds of people are earning bitcoin by taking vacations. The in-browser app Lolli, which allows users to earn bitcoin rewards for online purchases, just added Hotels.com to its list of partners. Now with Booking.com, Priceline, Hilton and Marriott, Lolli CEO Alex Adelman told CoinDesk travel purchases account for 40 percent of sales. “We are…

Jan 11, 2021 at 7:36 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 11, 2021 at 7:39 p.m. UTCNow Is the Time to Advance the Decentralized WebOn Jan. 6, 2021 (or what seems like the 739th day of 2020), a riotous mob stormed the United States Capitol. It has been over 200 years since the last storming of the Capitol…

news Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CommBank) has co-developed a blockchain marketplace that it says could support sustainable development and reward landowners for protecting the environment. Created in partnership with BioDiversity Solutions Australia (BDS), the prototype platform uses digital tokens, dubbed BioTokens, to facilitate trading of biodiversity credits for the New South Wales Government’s Biodiversity Offsets Scheme. The…

FEATURE Between 600,000 and 800,000 bitcoin miners have shut down since mid-November amid declines in price and hashrate across the network, according to the third-largest mining pool. In an interview with CoinDesk, Mao Shixing, founder of F2pool, said his firm’s estimate takes into account the total network hashrate drop and the average hash power of…