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Mar 4, 2020 at 06:56 UTCUpdated Mar 4, 2020 at 07:12 UTCIndia rupee image via ShutterstockThe Supreme Court of India has ruled against a decision imposed by the country's central bank nearly two years ago that curbed crypto trading in Asia's third-largest economy. According to a report from Bloomberg, a three-judge bench of the court…

Jun 19, 2020 at 22:28 UTCUpdated Jun 19, 2020 at 22:38 UTCJuneteenth Flag (Nafsadh/Wikimedia Commons)‘Satoshi Was a Black Woman’: Blockchain Entrepreneurs Talk Financial Inclusion on JuneteenthRacial diversity and financial inclusion are good for cryptocurrency and blockchain – and the industry has work to do. That was the overarching conclusion of a virtual Juneteenth event put together…

Glenn C Williams Jr, CMT is a Crypto Markets Analyst with an initial background in traditional finance. His experience includes research and analysis of individual cryptocurrencies, defi protocols, and crypto-based funds. He owns BTC, ETH, UNI, DOT, MATIC, and AVAXBradley Keoun is the managing editor of CoinDesk's Tech & Protocols team. He owns less than…

The latest contender for the leadership of the Republican Party said he is an advocate for crypto.“The current regime, clearly, has it out for Bitcoin,” Ron DeSantis said during a Twitter space with Elon Musk and venture capitalist David Sacks in which he officially announced his bid for U.S. president. “And if it continues for…

Feb 20, 2020 at 05:00 UTCUpdated Feb 20, 2020 at 05:06 UTCCoinDesk columnist Hasu is a pseudonymous crypto researcher publishing analysis for Deribit Insights and his personal blog. A recent TokenAnalyst report claims a single entity could be in control of around 50 percent of bitcoin’s hashrate. The observation is based on the fact that…

news A blockchain startup is bringing the fight for free speech to the domain level. Unstoppable Domains announced Thursday a $4 million Series A led by venture capital firm Draper Associates. Boost VC, which led the startup’s seed round, was the only other participant in the Series A. “For global free speech to work, you…

news There’s another Monero mining botnet that’s targeting China. Or maybe it’s one we’ve seen before. Bloggers steeped in the hacker-verse recently exposed a URL spreading a botnet that looks suspiciously like one unleashed by the Outlaw hacking group last year. The Outlaw outfit — a name coined by its discoverers at Trend Micro, who…

Oct 19, 2020 at 10:36 UTCShenzhen store (Sean Fole/Unsplash)First Users Not So Impressed by China’s Digital Yuan: ReportA recent giveaway of China’s in-testing central bank digital currency (CBDC) has reportedly left recipients less than wowed by the user experience.As reported previously, the city of Shenzhen and the People's Bank of China launched a "red envelope"…

Dec 2, 2020 at 4:24 p.m. UTCUpdated Dec 2, 2020 at 4:38 p.m. UTC$10.8M Stolen, Developers Implicated in Alleged Smart Contract ‘Rug Pull’Another decentralized finance (DeFi) project was rug-pulled Tuesday, with some $10.8 million in investor funds stolen due to a hidden backdoor in the project’s smart contracts.Compounder Finance – a self-described clone of Harvest…