There’s a Huge Opportunity for Everyone in Crypto, It’s Called KYC/AML

markets View Bitcoin jumped to a five-week high of $4,100 earlier today, reinforcing the bullish view put forward by the recent bounce from the crucial 30-day moving average support. That, coupled with the flag breakout on the 4-hour chart, indicates scope for a re-test of $4,190 (February high). The short-term bullish case would weaken if…

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team.Analysts at alternative asset management firm Valkyrie Investments are closely monitoring what looks like a "head and shoulders (H&S)" bearish reversal pattern on bitcoin's (BTC) daily chart.The popular technical analysis pattern is characterized by two rallies or shoulders flanking a bigger one, representing the head. Chart…

Anubis, Egyptian god of the dead (Egor Myznik/Unsplash)New Malware Spotted in the Wild That Puts Cryptocurrency Wallets at RiskThe Takeaway: Anubis is a new malware that can target cryptocurrency wallets and other sensitive data. It first became available for sale in darkweb markets in June, and Microsoft has now seen limited attack campaigns using it.Experts…

With crypto shaken to its core from the recent bear market, the phrase 'BUIDL' has become an increasingly popular industry rallying cry, encouraging developers and entrepreneurs to weather the storm and create meaningful products for the next bull run.One community that has embraced this call to action is the Shiba Inu (SHIB) project, a Dogecoin

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) hasn't made enough of a case to warrant an appeals court intervention in its ongoing legal fight with Ripple, the crypto company argued in a new filing Friday.The SEC is seeking a federal judge's approval to appeal her ruling finding that Ripple's programmatic sales of XRP did not

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s entire crypto empire was a “house of cards” that was “built on a lie,” the U.S. Department of Justice said in its opening statement at the FTX founder's trial.Bankman-Fried’s defense team countered that the onetime FTX founder acted in good faith – even as his businesses grew too quickly and collapsed

“We remain bullish on blockchain technology but are changing the way we interact with these asset," said CEO Jonathan Johnson.Overstock CEO Jonathan Johnson(CoinDesk archives)Jan 26, 2021 at 11:25 a.m. UTCOverstock Turns Medici Ventures Into a Fund to Reap Value of Blockchain AssetsUnder a plan to eventually exit its blockchain-related investments, Overstock is converting its Medici…

Mar 10, 2020 at 09:00 UTC"A Mad Dog in a Coffee-House" by Thomas Rowlandson, via WikimediaCrypto Needs a Rational Value Investing ModelJeff Dorman, a CoinDesk columnist, is chief investment officer at Arca where he leads the investment committee and is responsible for portfolio sizing and risk management. He has more than 17 years of trading and…

Franklin Templeton has applied for a spot Ethereum exchange-traded fund (ETF), a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) shows.The asset manager joins BlackRock, Fidelity, Ark and 21Shares, Grayscale, VanEck, Invesco and Galaxy, and Hashdex, who have all submitted applications in recent months.The filing comes roughly four weeks after Franklin, among nine other issuers