The Case for a Bitcoin ETF

Crypto criminals have moved on from bitcoin to other cryptocurrencies, was the main takeaway from a report released Wednesday by blockchain analytics company TRM Labs.While crypto prices have been depressed over the past couple of years, the earnings of scammers and hackers have not, the Elicit Crypto Ecosystem Report showed. Crypto Ponzi schemes extracted at…

Dec 1, 2020 at 12:00 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 1, 2020 at 12:41 p.m. UTCLOW KEY: MicroStrategy, led by Michael Saylor (left), hired Brian Armstrong's Coinbase to help it buy large quantities of BTC without moving the market.(Getty Images/CoinDesk archives)Coinbase Brokered MicroStrategy’s $425M Bitcoin Purchase, Exchange SaysU.S. cryptocurrency platform Coinbase facilitated MicroStrategy’s $425 million bitcoin buy…

May 16: Lita released its Valida zkVM and Valida C Compiler Toolchain, enabling faster, cheaper and more efficient ZKP generation, according to the team: "Valida’s compatibility with LLVM opens the door to a host of conventional programming languages, helping developers to easily transition into the world of decentralized systems. Lita’s benchmarks for Valida’s performance capabilities

The first Securities and Exchange Commission witness in Nigeria's trial against Binance and its executives has been cross-examined. The money-laundering trial reconvenes on July 5. Tigran Gambaryan's health is deteriorating in jail, his family said. Nigeria's money laundering trial against Binance and two executives was adjourned until July 5 following the cross-examination on Monday of

Bitcoin (BTC) prices were little changed in line with a trend of low weekend volatility, with ether and some ecosystem tokens driving gains instead on the back of the relatively new ether (ETH) ETF narrative.Bitcoin hovered around the $51,500 mark in Asian morning hours Monday, while ether regained the $3,100 level. XRP, Cardano’s ADA and

This is a developing story and will be updated frequently.NEW YORK -- Caroline Ellison, former CEO of Alameda Research, testified that she committed fraud at the direction of her ex-boyfriend and former colleague, FTX exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried.Ellison, 28, is the government’s highly anticipated star witness in the six-week trial of Bankman-Fried. She was the

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Stephen Alpher is CoinDesk's co-regional news chief, Americas. He holds BTC above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Chicago-based Radix Trading told the Wall Street Journal that…

The evolution of Web3 has been anything but predictable. From the humble beginnings of Bitcoin through the ICO craze, the advent of Ethereum, and beyond to DeFi and NFTs, technologists have remained steadfast in the power of blockchain technology to fuel the innovation of tomorrow. Yet, Web3's decentralized nature — often seen as its greatest

Investment firm cyber.Fund, an early backer in Ethereum, is committing $100 million to projects that intersect blockchain technology with artificial intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things (IoT).Cyber.Fund, which also backed Cosmos, Solana and Polkadot, is focused on growing the "cybernetic economy," in which blockchain is the bedrock, according to an emailed announcement on Thursday.It