Technician in Italy Used Airport’s Computers to Mine Ethereum in Italy: Report

A group of Polygon founders and researchers proposed a token upgrade that would replace the network's MATIC token with POL in a move that lets POL function as a single token for all Polygon-based networks.These networks include the main Polygon blockchain, the Polygon zkEVM network, and various supernets – application-specific blockchains that run atop the…

Jan 22, 2020 at 15:00 UTCHackernoon Annotations page screenshotHacker Noon is putting its money where its pen is, embedding blockchain features into its new publishing platform. Annotations on Hacker Noon’s blog-styled content, with some 4 million monthly readers, will now be locally hosted on users' spare storage space, said Hacker Noon CEO David Smooke in a…

Feb 15, 2020 at 14:00 UTCPhoto by Sharon McCutcheon on UnsplashWe Think 10-Minute Settlement Is Slow but That’s Crazy, Feat. CoinDesk Research’s Noelle AchesonCoinDesk Head of Research Noelle Acheson joins the Amun State of Crypto crew to discuss the advantages, disadvantages and eccentricities of crypto markets, exchanges, settlement and more.In this deep-dive conversation, the group…

Dec 11, 2020 at 5:14 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 11, 2020 at 5:33 p.m. UTCMicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor(CoinDesk archives)MicroStrategy Offering to Fund More Bitcoin Buys Boosted to $650M After Notes Buyer Bought $100M MoreMicroStrategy announced Friday it raised $650 million, up from a recently boosted $550 million, in a convertible senior note sale designed to allow…

feature ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– A former academic, Elizabeth Stark likes to play devil’s advocate. Take, for instance, her appearance at the Crypto Springs conference in October 2018. It’s a sunny morning in Palm Springs, California, and most attendees are lounging by the pool; onstage, however, Stark is busy describing some of the darker potential scenarios for the…

The legislation offers crypto companies such as wallets and exchanges a license for operating across the bloc in exchange for meeting governance and consumer protection norms, and also introduces reserve requirements for stablecoins. If approved, it will be published in the EU’s official journal and takes effect between one and three years later.

CoinMarketCap, the most-visited aggregator of cryptocurrency market data, has changed the way it uses data from the Bitfinex exchange in response to a report by CoinDesk. On Tuesday, CoinDesk pointed out that a trading pair shown on CoinMarketCap – seemingly, for trades between the tether stablecoin (USDT) and U.S. dollars – did not, in fact,…

Feb 21, 2020 at 11:15 UTCViewBitcoin's daily money flow index has turned bearish, supporting the case for deeper a price pullback put forward by Wednesday's bearish engulfing candle. On the downside, support is seen at $9,400, a level that restricted downside in the previous two days. A violation there would expose the higher low created…

Featured SpeakerJenny JohnsonPresident and CEOFranklin TempletonJenny will discuss developing crypto-linked investment products in a bear market, the mood among her clients and her lon...Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team.Featured SpeakerJenny…