The Investor’s Perspective on the Bitcoin Taproot Upgrade

The pilot involved the settlement on a private blockchain of around €2 million.Banque de France(Shutterstock)Jan 19, 2021 at 5:54 p.m. UTCFrench Central Bank Trials Digital Currency for Interbank SettlementBanque de France has successfully conducted a central bank digital currency (CBDC) experiment using a blockchain platform for interbank settlement.According to a Banque de France statement, the…

Jan 23, 2020 at 09:00 UTCLIGHT TOUCH: "As a business owner, I advocate a free-market approach," says Lisa Song Sutton. (Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk)"I would love to sit down with President Trump and have a discussion around bitcoin and cryptocurrency," Lisa Song Sutton, an entrepreneur and bitcoin ATM investor in Las Vegas, told…

Unikrn, an e-sport betting firm that conducted an ICO last year, is now facing a class action suit that accuses it of violating US securities law.

Jun 22, 2020 at 12:08 UTCBitcoin Sees Small Gain as Gold Rallies to One-Month HighBitcoin is reporting moderate gains on Monday as gold, a safe haven asset, rallies amid renewed coronavirus concerns.  At press time, the cryptocurrency is priced around $9,430 – up 1.5% on the day – having put in lows near $9,260 during…

Mercedes-Benz (Uriel Soberanes/Unsplash)Mercedes Maker Daimler Tests Blockchain for Supply-Chain Data SharingOcean Protocol, a blockchain-based data-sharing platform, has completed a proof-of-concept (PoC) with Daimler, showing how the Mercedes-Benz maker can begin monetizing data streams within the company and across its supply chains. Announced Tuesday, the Singapore-based Ocean collaborated with Daimler AG to explore the decentralized sharing…

Analysts at the largest bank in Canada noted that after PayPal and Square’s crypto offerings, the market for tech firms creating crypto wallets has already been validated. Apple CEO Tim Cook.(Shutterstock)Feb 8, 2021 at 6:16 p.m. UTCUpdated Feb 8, 2021 at 6:27 p.m. UTCApple Should Launch Own Crypto Exchange, RBC Analyst SaysApple, the maker of…

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markets Bitcoin (BTC) is witnessing the longest stretch of range-bound price activity in three months. The leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization has been largely restricted to trading between $3,700 and $3,500 since Jan. 11 – the longest stretch at such a narrow range since the end of October. Back then, the market had gone quiet,…

Compound DAO governance exploiter Humpy the Whale was among the targets of lawsuits brought by FTX’s estate last week. In 2021 and 2022 he allegedly bought massive amounts of illiquid tokens, pumping the price, and then used them to take out loans on the crypto exchange that were not repaid. His actions, which exploited a