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news Hans-Ole Jochumsen, who retired the last fall as vice chairman of NASDAQ Europe, has joined the advisory board of Concordium Foundation, the Swiss non-profit developing a cryptocurrency with a built-in compliance function. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Jochumsen will guide Concordium’s compliance efforts, providing expertise in taxation, know-your-customer (KYC) practices, and transaction provenance. The stock market…

A blockchain trade finance platform spearheaded by China's central bank has entered the testing phase ahead of an official roll-out. According to a report from 21st Century Business Herald on Tuesday, the first phase of the so-called Bay Area Trade Finance Blockchain Platform is already deployed across financial institutions in the southern city of Shenzhen and is…

Jan 24, 2020 at 15:00 UTCUpdated Jan 24, 2020 at 15:12 UTCYour PGP Key? Make Sure It’s Up to DateIdentity thieves now have another tool at their disposal: bitcoin hashing power. That’s the conclusion from a new cryptanalysis paper published earlier this month on SHA-1 (pronounced “shaw”), a once-popular hash function created by the National Security…

news Taylor Monahan, the CEO of crypto wallet startup MyCrypto, has been moderator for the ethereum subreddit channel since 2016. That year, the ethereum Reddit channel was just breaking over the 10,000 subscribers mark, according to SubRedditStats. Today, the same channel boasts over 400,000 subscribers and is ranked within the top 600 most popular channels…

The investor spotlight is now shining on DeFi tokens and trading.CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexFeb 1, 2021 at 9:46 p.m. UTCMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Trading Tepidly at $33.7K While SushiSwap Eats Raw Market ShareBitcoin is taking a break, staying in a tight trading range with lower than average volume compared to the past month. Meanwhile, alternative…

Oct 15, 2020 at 19:00 UTCUpdated Oct 15, 2020 at 19:34 UTC(D-Keine/iStock via Getty Images Plus)Is Crypto Converging With Public Markets?Between bitcoin treasury holdings growing and crypto-focused SPACs, private crypto markets and public equities markets are closer than ever.For more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts,…

news Facebook’s Libra must achieve the highest standards of U.S. regulatory compliance prior to any launch, a U.S. Treasury official has said. Speaking to reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, Sigal Mandelker, under secretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, said not only Libra, but other cryptocurrencies operating in all or part of the U.S. will…

Bitcoin's daily chart is set to show a so-called death cross, a major bearish technical pattern, for the first time since January 2022.Past data show the death cross is not reliable as a standalone indicator.Strengthening U.S. dollar and macro developments suggest tough times ahead for risk assets, including cryptocurrencies.The bitcoin (BTC) price seems set on

The National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) has seized $1.5 million worth of cryptocurrency from Yuriy Shchigol, Ukraine's former head of the State Special Communications Service, according to local news outlet RBC.The seizure, which involved $1.2 million worth of tether (USDT) and 6.9 bitcoin (BTC), was supported by the Supreme Anti-Corruption Court in Ukraine.Schigol and