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Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Omkar Godbole was a senior reporter on CoinDesk's Markets team.Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Bitcoin (BTC) has surged 70% this year, hitting…

What Yearn Finance’s ‘Blue Kirby’ Incident Means for PseudonymitySatoshi Nakamoto proved a pseudonymous founder doesn’t have to be a deal breaker. Blue Kirby, however, has reminded cryptocurrency investors that fake names can still be a red flag. For those who didn’t spend last weekend on Crypto Twitter, Blue Kirby is the handle of a now-infamous figure…

The plaintiff lost 15 bitcoin after an interaction with a T-mobile customer who had been victim of a SIM-swapping attack.(Ronstik/Shutterstock)Feb 12, 2021 at 11:15 a.m. UTCUpdated Feb 12, 2021 at 11:16 a.m. UTCT-Mobile Sued Over SIM Attack That Resulted in Loss of $450K in BitcoinT-Mobile is being sued by a customer as a result of…

Sep 9, 2020 at 02:31 UTCUpdated Sep 9, 2020 at 02:34 UTCVenezuela Blocks Access to Coinbase and Remittance Service MercaDolarA digital rights advocacy group in Venezuela said its government has blocked user access to two currency exchange platforms. According to Venezuela Inteligente, President Nicolas Maduro's government is denying its citizens from accessing U.S. crypto exchange…

Nov 4, 2020 at 22:55 UTCUpdated Nov 4, 2020 at 23:19 UTCBlockstream Is Working on Simpler, More Private Multi-Sig Bitcoin TransactionsWith Bitcoin’s long-awaited Taproot upgrade on the horizon, the engineers at Blockstream are working on a new scheme to improve multi-signature transactions. These transactions, which require signatures from more than one private key to authorize spends,…

news Cryptocurrency exchange and mining startup Bcause LLC is a few weeks away from launching its spot market. The Chicago-based company has tentatively set May 23 as the go-live date for bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ether, and litecoin, co-founder and chief marketing officer Thomas Flake told CoinDesk. In anticipation of the launch, it has obtained money transmitter…

Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team.Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.The world's leading central banks appear to have…

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Cat-themed token POPCAT and dog-themed WIF jumped 25%, while smaller tokens MUMU and CATDOG were up 30%. The surge in Solana-based tokens contrasted with declines in major memecoins on other blockchains. Memecoins on the Solana ecosystem surged more than 30% in the past 24 hours, leading gains in the crypto market, as the network’s underlying