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Sep 18, 2020 at 12:30 UTC(Mark Van Scyoc/Shutterstock)Back in 2017, I was the chief operations officer of an enterprise blockchain startup. By all accounts we were a reasonably successful early stage company; we had built prototypes on our permissioned Ethereum Virtual Machine for a range of banks including Deutsche Bank, Barclays, and Credit Suisse. SWIFT…

Nov 12, 2020 at 8:29 p.m. UTCChristopher C. Krebs, director of the Homeland Security Department's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.(Tasos Katopodis/Getty)Trump’s Post-Election Purge Reaches US Cybersecurity AgencyKey cybersecurity officials are exiting (or expecting to be fired from) the U.S. government’s cyber threat protection agency as President Donald Trump’s post-election purge continues.Reuters reported Thursday that Cybersecurity…

Gemini has responded to a New York Post article alleging that the Winklevoss twins withdrew $282 million from crypto lender Genesis last August.The exchange posted a response on X, describing the story as "misleading" and "pure fantasy."Gemini said it elected to increase its liquidity reserves owing to the market turmoil throughout the summer of 2022

One of the major breakout successes this year for the team behind layer-2 blockchain Polygon is Polymarket – the decentralized predictions market where users have flocked this year to place bets on everything from presidential politics to the conclusion of an HBO documentary. What's less clear to crypto analysts examining Polygon's performance metrics is whether

China's latest stimulus appears sanguine compared to the 2015 cycle, according to BCA Research. The housing market bust limits China's ability to generate bullish "credit impulses." The credit impulse is in a structural downtrend, since peaking at 25% in 2008. China has recently unveiled a raft of stimulus measures, the biggest since 2008, torching a

The U.S. arm of crypto exchange Bittrex is set to open for customer withdrawals Thursday following a ruling by a Delaware bankruptcy court, CoinDesk has been told.The exchange filed for bankruptcy in May, and its legal bid to let customers once again access holdings faced opposition from the U.S government, which says it’s still owed…

Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.Bitcoin cash (BCH) has gained 11% over the last 24-hours even as bitcoin has declined.Bitcoin’s price drop follows network congestion that sent transaction fees over the weekend skyward as demand for bitcoin Ordinals ramped…

Bitcoin miner Ionic Digital hired John Penver, who used to work at data center service provider TSS, as CFO. Ionic bought bankrupt crypto lender Celsius' mining assets and plans to IPO this year. 00:52 Why Bitcoin Is the 'Direction God for Crypto' 02:01 Fed Chair Powell on Elevated Inflation; Could Trump's Crypto Enthusiasm Help Win

Apr 17, 2020 at 17:57 UTCUpdated Apr 17, 2020 at 18:04 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/Bjoern WylezichMoney Reimagined: Demand for USD Stablecoins Foreshadows Financial DisruptionPicture a consulting firm with 150 staff worldwide, a global retail chain with a million in-store employees, or a manufacturer that sources high-turnover inventory from more than 50 suppliers in 10 different countries –…