Reintroduced Congressional Bill Would Call for Feds to Study Terrorist Uses for Crypto

Sep 15, 2020 at 03:20 UTCWu Jihan image via CoinDesk archiveIn a new twist of Bitmain’s ongoing power fight, co-founder Jihan Wu has regained the legal representative status of the bitcoin mining giant. China’s business registration record update on Sept. 14 shows Wu has again become the legal representative and executive director of Beijing Bitmain…

news Hosho was founded under the premise it could safely sell smart contract shovels in a tokenized gold rush – in fact, the company’s name itself means ‘security’ in Japanese, “We thought we were going to go to the moon and audit lots of ICOs,” Hartej Sawhney, co-founder and president of the company told CoinDesk in…

news According to the artist who calls himself Cryptograffiti, art could be a way to help the public to understand cryptocurrencies, The San Francisco artist displayed his work at the event Bitcoin2019 where he talked to CoinDesk about the impact of art in the cryptocurrency space and his work in South America. “I devoted my work…

Of all the cryptocurrency projects describing themselves as "decentralized exchanges" (DEXs), Bisq may live up to the description better than most. Operating since 2017, when it was originally called Bitsquare, the Bisq DEX runs directly on the user's computer, rather than a hosted site, as many of the self-described DEXs currently do. And while DEXs…

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has been pushing for lawmakers to grant it extended powers to battle illicit finance using crypto.One of the government's requests is for special jurisdiction over non-U.S. stablecoin issuers, such as Tether.The U.S. Department of the Treasury is pressing lawmakers for a new set of powers that would give the

Mar 24, 2020 at 15:59 UTCUpdated Mar 24, 2020 at 16:28 UTCUS Senate Floats ‘Digital Dollar’ Bill After House Scrubs Term From Coronavirus Relief PlanA draft bill posted Tuesday to the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs defines a "digital dollar" and details how it might be maintained. The bill echoes language…

Shares crypto-related companies surged for a second straight day after bitcoin (BTC) traded above $34,000, fueled by hopes that a spot-price exchange-traded fund (ETF) for the largest cryptocurrency may finally be approved by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).Stocks of crypto exchange Coinbase (COIN), software company MicroStrategy (MSTR) – which held more than 158,000

Franklin Templeton's OnChain U.S. Government Money Market Fund can now be traded on Ethereum. The fund is already available on several other blockchains, including most recently Base, Aptos, and Avalanche. Ethereum is by far the most popular pick among issuers, handling $1.6 billion worth of tokenized assets. 01:45 Bitcoin Tops $93K Lifetime High As U.S.

“If I go out on the street now and ask, 'Hey, what is 100 terawatt hours? What is six gigawatt hours?' people don't know,” said Neumüller in an interview with CoinDesk. “So we have tried to contextualized it in the form of pictures, specifically with the buildings and, of course, the raspberry. This makes these…