Taproot Has Been Merged Into Bitcoin Core: Here’s What That Means

Jan 17, 2020 at 17:15 UTCToday's news:Bitcoin gaining today after two straight days of declines, up 1.3 percent to around $8800The Block reports that Grayscale Investments, a unit of Digital Currency Group, which is the owner of CoinDesk, raised more than $600 million from investors last year. And that’s up from 66% in 2018.The Libra Association, working…

Jun 20, 2020 at 18:54 UTCUpdated Jun 20, 2020 at 19:30 UTCCompound overtook MakerDAO Saturday as the decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol with the most value locked. As of June 20, Compound has $484 million in cryptocurrency locked, while MakerDAO has $481 million, according to DeFi Pulse. The COMP token is trading at $220.25 as of…

“We are excited to kick our European growth strategy into high gear with this application,” Jeremy Allaire, Circle’s chief executive officer, said in an emailed statement, referring to France’s “comprehensive efforts towards innovation-forward crypto regulation.”

feature ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– When it comes to crypto, everyone loves to talk about “community.” Every cryptocurrency has one, we’re led to believe, but often as not the community is just a Telegram channel peppered with demands of “@admin wen airdrop.” There is one cryptocurrency, however, for which the word is anything but a cliche. I’m talking…

MakerDAO community members are going to the polls to express their opinion on what to do with the Sky brand. In an interview with CoinDesk, MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen didn't express a strong opinion on the branding but rather said the community should make a firm decision and then go back to building. While Americans

news A sudden surge in transaction fees on the ethereum classic blockchain has some developers speculating whether cryptocurrency exchanges could be at risk of attack, a development that follows last week’s 51% attack in which more than $200,000 was stolen from at least one exchange. Over the last 24 hours, average transaction fees on the blockchain rose…

Bitcoin maximalists like Max Keiser have spread rumors of a $500 billion BTC purchase by Qatar, which would be larger than the sovereign fund's current holdings. The Qatar Investment Authority has denied investing. But, with BTC increasingly accepted on Wall Street, sovereign funds may add digital assets to their portfolios soon. In recent days, rumors

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler — a frequent foe of the cryptocurrency industry — said he will fully leave the agency the day Donald Trump becomes president in January. He's not just stepping down as head of the main U.S. securities regulator. He will also not stick around as a commissioner, meaning

In this episode, Christine Kim and Will Foxley discuss with Ethereum Foundation researcher Danny Ryan the roll-out of the Ethereum 2.0 development roadmap, starting with the launch of phase 0 and the Beacon Chain. “Not a surprise but a relief.”That’s how Ryan characterized how he felt about the successful activation of the Eth 2.0 network…