SEC Expands Inquiry Into Riot Blockchain, Filing Reveals

Many crypto-industry employees believe that cryptocurrencies will eventually play a much larger role in the overall financial and payments system.For now, though, almost all of them take their salaries in government-issued currencies, or "fiat" in the industry lingo.Some 97% of people in the nascent industry are paid a base salary in fiat, while only 3%

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Pete Pachal is CoinDesk's Chief of Staff for Content. He holds small amounts of BTC, ETH and SOL.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.New tools driven by artificial intelligence (AI) have…

Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has paused the sale of its highly-coveted $500 million stake in artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic, according to a report from Bloomberg.Perella Weinberg, the investment bank handling FTX's bankruptcy, told bidders this month about the pause, people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg. The move followed months of due diligence on the…

news With Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency potentially posing a threat to traditional money on various fronts, China’s central bank could hasten development of its own digital cash, according to a People’s Bank of China (PBoC) official. Speaking at an event at Peking University’s Institute of Digital Finance earlier on Monday, Wang Xin, head of the research bureau at…

news Crypto market data aggregator CoinGecko has a unveiled a new “trust score” for its system of ranking exchanges. The score will use a combination of analytics methods in an effort to achieve a fairer picture of the market, according to Bobby Ong, CoinGecko’s co-founder. Specifically, the new method will combine online traffic analysis by…

Bitcoin (BTC), the largest and oldest cryptocurrency, has been leading the digital asset rally of late, but there are early signs of a so-called "altcoin season" impending, when smaller tokens are outperforming, analysts said.BTC is already near its all-time high set in 2021, hitting $64,000 this week alongside strong inflows into spot bitcoin ETFs. It's

Blockchain network developer Cronos Labs has started looking for eight startups to take part in the third cohort of its $100 million accelerator program aimed at supporting early stage crypto projects.The recruitment phase of the 12-week program commenced Sept. 4 to coincide with the start of Korea Blockchain Week, which runs until Sept. 10, and

Aug 10, 2020 at 20:05 UTCUpdated Aug 10, 2020 at 20:23 UTCReturns for Riot, Marathon and Bitcoin since August 2019Betting against bitcoin has been a losing battle for months amid gaining more than 200% since its March lows. Benefiting from this rally, moreover, cryptocurrency mining stocks trading on U.S. markets are significantly outperforming the benchmark…

The U.K.'s Labour Party won a landslide victory in Thursday's general election. Crypto was not mentioned in the party's election manifesto, but Labour has previously commented on tokenization and the digital pound. The Labour Party won Thursday's U.K. general election with a landslide that ended 14 years of Conservative rule and will install Keir Starmer