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This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesBankrupt crypto exchange FTX and its debtors have asked the U.S. bankruptcy court of Delaware to approve the sale of some trust assets, funds of Grayscale

Lyllah Ledesma is a CoinDesk Markets reporter currently based in Europe. She holds bitcoin, ether and small amounts of other crypto assets.Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team.This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your…

"U.S. spot ether ETFs that incorporate staking could become large enough to change validator concentrations in the Ethereum network, for better or worse," S&P analysts wrote in a report published Tuesday. "It is therefore critical to understand how ETF issuers' choices will drive concentration risks."S&P is right: concentration or centralization risk exists in all crypto.

The crypto industry can breathe a sigh of relief: It looks like a federal U.S. regulator will let the world's largest traditional finance asset managers and other firms list and trade shares of a vehicle giving retail and institutional investors exposure to the price of a decentralized, trustless, stateless digital asset (if you're in the

feature CoinDesk has acquired documents detailing a draft proposal for new cryptocurrency mining regulations in Iran, which sources in Tehran say is well on its way toward official approval. Based on the translated proposal from the Cabinet of Iran, licensed and registered cryptocurrency miners will be required to submit information such as their list of…

news Yesterday, ethereum celebrated its fourth birthday. Four years ago, on July 30, 2015, the world’s first general-purpose blockchain platform went live. Called ethereum, the platform was the first of its kind to feature a Turing-complete virtual machine and native programming language able to deploy code of any algorithmic complexity. “Before ethereum, developers had to…

markets View Bitcoin is looking north, with the hourly chart reporting a golden cross. Key resistance at $8,820 could be put to test over the next few days. On the downside. $7,800 is the level to beat for the bears. A widely tracked short-term bitcoin price indicator has turned bullish, strengthening the case for a…

Millions of email addresses associated with the crypto market capitalization website CoinMarketCap (CMC) have been compromised.According to the data security breach website haveibeenpwned, 3.1 million addresses are now trading on “hacking forums.” The addresses are trading via dark web marketplaces, one source told CoinDesk Sunday.CMC said Saturday it had become aware that batches of data…

Jan 28, 2020 at 20:00 UTCWhen markets get hot, new FUD emerges. @nlw looks at three categories of FUD most likely to come up in the next bull market. For early access to new episodes, subscribe today via Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify or your preferred platform.We’re over $9,000! That means a lot of good…