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news Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Chairman Heath Tarbert believes the crypto world will see ethereum futures contracts sometime in 2020. Speaking at Georgetown University in a fireside chat during the first day of DC Fintech Week, Tarbert told moderator Chris Brummer that he “absolutely” believes ether futures could trade in the next six to…

opinion Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and a member of CoinDesk’s product team. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a free newsletter for institutional investors interested in crypto assets. Sign up here. Bitcoin yet again graced global headlines last week, after…

news The Electric Coin Company (ECC), the for-profit company that supports the development of the zcash cryptocurrency has issued its Q3 transparency report, revealing it has so far avoided layoffs during the bear market despite financial losses. According to the report, the company ran an average monthly deficit of 30 percent in Q1. The ECC…

Neha NarulaDirectorDigital Currency InitiativeNeha will join CoinDesk's Michael Casey for "Remember Why We're Here: Crypto's True Purpose."Neha NarulaDirectorDigital Currency InitiativeNeha will join CoinDesk's Michael Casey for "Remember Why We're Here: Crypto's True Purpose."Jeff Wilser is the author of 7 books including Alexander Hamilton's Guide to Life, The Book of Joe: The Life, Wit, and (Sometimes…

Dec 23, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. UTCUpdated Dec 23, 2020 at 4:52 p.m. UTCEthereum developer Virgil Griffith is accused of violating U.S. sanctions law.(CoinDesk archives)Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Will Likely Face Trial Next SeptemberThe U.S. government intends to argue that Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith helped North Koreans better understand how crypto could be used to…

2024 is already shaping up to be a transformative year for digital assets broadly, and bitcoin particularly. With SEC approval for a spot bitcoin ETF last week and bitcoin’s next halving event scheduled for April, we anticipate key shifts in both the supply and demand. Understanding these shifts is critical to understanding what role digital

news After sustained growth over the past three months, computing power on the bitcoin network has seen a fallback as the summer rainy season trails off in China. According to data from Poolin, the world’s largest bitcoin mining pool by real time hash rate, bitcoin’s seven-day average computing (or hashing) power has dropped to around…

Sandali Handagama is a CoinDesk reporter with a focus on crypto regulation and policy. She does not own any crypto.Nigeria’s Securities and Exchange Commission is considering allowing tokenized coin offerings backed by equity, debt or property but “not crypto,” on licensed digital asset exchanges, Bloomberg reported Monday.“We always like to start, as a regulator, with…

feature The Takeaway: Asian institutional investors, mostly high-net-worth individuals and family offices, are increasingly showing interest in digital assets, with some having allocated part of their portfolios to crypto hedge funds. The gloomy macroeconomic outlook and the news of Facebook’s Libra and China’s central bank digital currency have fueled this interest, market participants say. Crypto…