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Stronghold Digital, the bitcoin mining company that converts coal waste into power for its operations, surged in its first day of trading on Wednesday after raising $127 million in its initial public offering (IPO).The Kennerdell, Pennsylvania-based miner’s IPO was upsized to $19 per share, after previously pricing its IPO at the range of $16 to…

Crypto exchange EDX Markets, which is backed by Wall Street giants including Citadel Securities and Charles Schwab, tapped Anchorage Digital to provide custody for its clearinghouse business set to launch later this year, the company said Tuesday.The clearinghouse will help settle trades matched on EDX. Anchorage is the only federally chartered crypto bank in the…

Sale of as much as $8 million of nodes to whitelisted buyers would begin on Nov. 6. Additional node sales after that could increase total raised to $37 million. Huddle01's "dRTC Chain" is built using the Ethereum layer-2 project Arbitrum's Orbit software stack, with a test network scheduled to launch two weeks after the node

Jul 15, 2020 at 19:59 UTCHackers pumping a crypto giveaway scam appear to have compromised the Twitter accounts of leading exchanges, individuals and at least one news org. The unknown attackers tweeted identical messages promising that they were "giving back 5000 BTC ($45,889,950) to the community" on Wednesday afternoon from the accounts of Gemini, Binance,…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Bitcoin is down to start the week, dropping to around $29,300, a decrease of 1.92% in the last 24 hours. The CoinDesk Market Index (CMI), which measures the…

Dec 6, 2020 at 10:00 p.m. UTC(Scott Olson/Getty Images)Crypto Long & Short: Why Some Investors Get Bitcoin So Wrong, and What That Says About Its StrengthsIt is frustrating. But at the same time, interesting.Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve heard two well-respected investment managers say that they don’t believe in bitcoin’s supply limit. If…

Celestia Foundation, the team behind the Celestia blockchain network, said Monday that it has raised $100 in a fundraising round led by Bain Capital Crypto. The news comes as as Celestia's native token, TIA, is down 54% since the beginning of 2024, according to CoinMarketCap. Celestia had one of the hottest airdrops of 2023, issuing

The discount on the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), the world’s largest bitcoin (BTC) fund, has slipped to its lowest level since April 2021, ahead of an expected conversion to a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF).Data shows the discount fell to as low as 5.6% on Monday, reaching a level previously seen in June 2021. The

Urban Tea has hired two new executives ahead of its expansion into cryptocurrency mining.Feb 18, 2021 at 9:15 a.m. UTCChinese Retailer Goes From Bubble Tea to Crypto Mining in Unlikely PivotA retailer of specialty teas and baked goods based in Hunan, China is expanding its business into cryptocurrency mining.According to a press release on Thursday,…