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DoubleLine CEO Jeff Gundlach warns of inflation with a digital U.S. dollar. (DoubleLine Capital)Debate Rages on Whether a Digital Dollar Will Unleash InflationWith record U.S. money printing failing to achieve much-needed economic stimulus, some observers now expect creation of a “digital dollar” central bank digital currency (CBDC) will not only speed payments to consumers but…

Traders believe the selling pressure from Mt. Gox's repayments might be less severe than anticipated, potentially easing concerns about an immediate selloff.Galaxy Research suggests that a significant portion of the distributed Bitcoin may not be immediately sold, as most will likely be held by creditors due to their low-cost basis.Crypto traders say selling pressure from

Coinbase’s layer 2 blockchain, Base, which launched in early August, has seen its daily transactions hit an all-time high, according to data from IntoTheBlock.Base saw 1.88 million transactions on Thursday, higher than layer 2 rivals Arbitrum and Optimism combined, which saw 780,000 and 370,000, respectively.“Interestingly, it is not decentralized finance (DeFi) applications nor non-fungible token

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Apr 30, 2020 at 19:00 UTCFrom Corrupt to Broken: An Insider’s Analysis of the Fed, Feat. Danielle Dimartino BoothAn adviser to the U.S. Federal Reserve through the Great Financial Crisis to 2015 examines the latest in the largest monetary policy experiment in human history. For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3…

Jun 18, 2020 at 19:49 UTCDelta Exchange Launches Crypto Interest Rate SwapsIt was only a matter of time before crypto adapted elements of the $341 trillion interest rate swap market to its own. Traders may now be able to hedge the risks they face from interest rate payment fluctuations in perpetual contracts. And it could also…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Eliza Gkritsi is CoinDesk's crypto mining reporter based in Asia.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Bitcoin miner Mawson Infrastructure (MIGI) said it agreed to sell its sites in Texas to a…

news Blockchain staking-as-a-service startup Battlestar Capital says customers can earn “up to 30 percent” interest annually on their idle cryptocurrency holdings. Revealing the news exclusively to CoinDesk on Tuesday, Battlestar said that it has partnered with cryptocurrency lending startup Celsius Network to launch a large-scale staking service that provides the potentially high returns. While the…

news Delphi Digital Co-Founder Yan Liberman joined CoinDesk’s Brad Keoun on Monday, Nov. 4, to talk about last week’s flash crash on Deribit, a Netherlands-based cryptocurrency exchange, and the outlook for bitcoin. (The following is an edited transcript.) Brad Keoun: We’re here today with Yan Liberman. He’s co-founder of Delphi Digital, which is a research firm founded…