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Mar 27, 2020 at 18:00 UTCUpdated Mar 27, 2020 at 18:44 UTCIvan Aivazovsky, "Shipwreck on Stormy Seas" (Credit: Sotheby's/Wikimedia Commons)In a role reversal befitting these topsy-turvy times, Wall Street has recently seen more turbulence than the top cryptocurrency. The S&P 500’s 30-day volatility of daily returns, or historical volatility, jumped to 200 percent Wednesday, nearly 10…

China's Communist Party is moving to make blockchain literacy the norm with the publication of a guide book for officials and members.

news Kaleido’s software-as-a-service blockchain solution now works on Microsoft Azure as well as Amazon Web Services (AWS). According to an analysis by Keybanc reported by CNBC, that now gives Kaleido clients access to more than 80 percent of cloud infrastructure clients, with support for the top two providers of cloud services. According to the company,…

Donald Trump is out with his latest digital collectible gimmick: Something resembling an NFT on the Bitcoin blockchain that effectively costs $9,900 but, unlike normal NFTs, cannot be traded by its owners anytime soon.The former U.S. president's NFT venture announced in a post on X that collectors who pay $99 apiece for 100 of his

Jun 29, 2020 at 12:00 UTCUpdated Jun 29, 2020 at 12:04 UTCBitcoin chalked out minor price gains on Sunday, ending its longest run of daily losses for half a year. The leading cryptocurrency by market value jumped 1.2%, having suffered losses in each of the preceding five days, according to CoinDesk’s Bitcoin Price Index. Prices…

Mar 24, 2020 at 06:00 UTCChainalysis is working with its first P2P crypto exchange, Paxful. (Image via Shutterstock)Peer-to-peer exchange Paxful has deployed Chainalysis’ cryptocurrency investigations and transaction intelligence software tools, the companies announced Monday in a joint press release.The deal represents an about-face for Chainalysis, one of the industry’s most prominent crypto surveillance developers and…

The Optimism blockchain ecoystem is getting its own "alternative data availability" or "alt-DA" chain, called Redstone – courtesy of the development team Lattice.Currently still operating as a test network, Redstone aims to be cost-effective for on-chain games and decentralized applications.Optimism is an ecosystem of so-called layer-2 chains, designed for cheaper and faster transactions, including the

Aug 19, 2020 at 19:40 UTCThis isn't how a cash and carry trade works (Pixabay).Institutional demand for stablecoins may cool because yield on “carry trades” has been cut in half since Monday. The annualized rolling one-month futures basis shot as high as 28% at the start of the week on the Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange OKEx,…

Nigeria's tax authority charged Binance with tax evasion, local news outlets reported Monday.The charges come after a tense few weeks during which two senior executives of the crypto exchange were detained by authorities.Local media reported that one of the two executives escaped and may have left the country.Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, was charged