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Bitcoin has retraced 40 percent of the rally from the June low of $5,755, signaling a short-term bullish-to-bearish trend change.

Jun 11, 2020 at 11:16 UTCFirst Mover: Fed Sees No Inflation Through 2021, But Bitcoiners Are Betting on It AnywayThere’s no end in sight to loose monetary policy at the Federal Reserve, and that’s just fine with bitcoin bulls.   Officials with the U.S. central bank, led by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, said Wednesday that…

Dubai-based BitOasis recently acquired a license to act as a broker-dealer in Bahrain. CoinDCX is among the most prominent crypto exchanges in India, boasting a user base of over 15 million. 07:47 How Upcoming Elections Around the World Could Impact the Crypto Industry 07:47 How Upcoming Elections Around the World Could Impact the Crypto Industry

Jesse Hamilton is CoinDesk's deputy managing editor for global policy and regulation. He doesn't hold any crypto.The unusual joint meeting of the two most crypto-relevant committees in the U.S. House of Representatives was called to work out the best legislative approach to digital assets, but one of the top Democrats questioned whether Congress should be…

Dec 3, 2020 at 6:43 p.m. UTC(Alex Wroblewski/Getty Images News)Why Stablecoins Are the First Battleground of the Coming Crypto Regulation WarsThe STABLE Act would force all stablecoin issuers to have bank licenses, a shot across the bow that portends an emerging legal challenge for the industry.For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m.…

Crypto exchange Coinbase won a reprieve from the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday, after the high court ruled that a lawsuit filed by one of the exchange's users couldn't proceed until Coinbase defends an appeal of a lower court ruling.The ruling, which won a 5-4 majority, allows Coinbase to continue its effort to compel arbitration…

An arbitration body in China has ruled that despite the country's central bank's ban on cryptocurrency trading, bitcoin should still be legally protected as a property with economic values. The Shenzhen Court of International Arbitration published a case analysis on Thursday via WeChat, detailing its ruling on a recent economic dispute that involved a business…

Staking rates are to crypto what interest rates are to traditional finance. Ethereum’s transition a year ago to proof-of-stake with “The Merge” was an incredible accomplishment for its ecosystem that delivered obvious enhancements to network security and reduced its energy footprint by 99.95%.This shift, which made it so validators are rewarded with both protocol emissions

news San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has said that the cost of handling government subpoenas is fast becoming a “barrier to entry” in the U.S. On Saturday, the exchange tweeted an infographic from its “2018 Transparency Report,” indicating that the law enforcement and other inquiries it has received from various government agencies around the world…