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Jan 6, 2021 at 9:04 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 6, 2021 at 9:24 p.m. UTCBitcoin Sets New All-Time High, Roaring Above $36KThe price of bitcoin set yet another all-time high this year, as the leading cryptocurrency crossed $36,000.The price of bitcoin soared to a new-all time high of $36,286.65, before settling down to $36,004.99, up 5.93% over…

Jul 10, 2020 at 16:42 UTC(Darko Pribeg/Unsplash, modified using Photoshop)Bitcoin Wallet Electrum Now Supports Lightning, Watchtowers and Submarine SwapsOne of the most popular Bitcoin wallets, Electrum, now supports Lightning Network payments. The latest swathe of major changes was released in version 4.0, one of its biggest upgrades since the Bitcoin wallet launched in 2011. (Note:…

Aug 18, 2020 at 15:21 UTCBinance’s internal data security team aided Ukrainian cyber cops in busting an alleged cryptocurrency money laundering operation in June, according to a joint press release published Tuesday. Ukrainian authorities say the unnamed group distributed ransomware, washed hacker funds to the tune of $42 million and built a robust darknet laundering…

Over a million dollars'-worth of bitcoin was hidden in a picture – and there's still some left to be found. Called the 310 BTC Bitcoin Challenge, a pseudonymous user going by the name "Pip" stashed a total of 310.61 BTC (worth $2,011,267 at press time) into four digital wallets earlier this month – with the…

news EOS maker Block.One must pay $24 million in penalties for conducting an unregistered securities sale, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced Monday evening. The SEC said in a press release that Block.One “raised the equivalent of several billion dollars” over a one-year period in an unregistered initial coin offering (ICO). (A total…

(Ryan Quintal/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)Gelato Gives Developers a New ‘Money Lego’ Tool for DeFi ApplicationsA new decentralized finance (DeFi) “money Lego” will allow app developers to make it possible for users to automate their transactions. Called Gelato, the protocol moved from alpha to a live and audited v1 on Ethereum’s mainnet on July 3. And,…

The BLS data is expected to show job growth in the year to March 2024 was significantly weaker than initial estimates, according crypto firm SignalPlus and Morgan Stanley. Goldman Sachs believes the data could overstate weakness. 1:02:43 Why Financial Advisors Are So Excited About a Spot Bitcoin ETF 01:14 Whale Watching: The Aggregate Whale Balance

“From a technical aspect, the current price action is overheated and we could see a correction toward $25K in the near term. The major market mover will most likely be FOMC, in about 3 days, where the majority of the analysts believe we will see a 25 bps hike at best,” DiPasquale told CoinDesk in…

Crypto is internet money, and the internet is for robots.We humans barely recognize their gears and sockets -- the crypto arbitrage and MEV bots, social media bot armies and algorithmic content feeds, generative code art and AI illustrations, and the various Zapier agents and automations that run in the background of our experience.Previously, I discussed