True Life: I’m a Bitcoin

Poolin co-founder Zhibiao Kevin Pan (CoinDesk archives)A court in China has denied an appeal by bitcoin mining giant Bitmain seeking $30 million in damages from the three co-founders of Poolin, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency mining pools. The Beijing No. 1 Intermediate People’s Court issued a ruling on the appeal on Aug. 31 and…

news The crypto curious will soon be able to dip their toes into bitcoin while grocery shopping. Bitcoin ATM company Coinme is partnering with coins-to-cash converter Coinstar to allow bitcoin purchases through Coinstar kiosks in a number of U.S. states, the companies announced Thursday. At launch, only customers at certain Safeway or Albertsons stores in California,…

I'm conducting my second test of self-custodial Lightning wallets in Zimbabwe, to see which might be best for any rural area. Given that none of the available self-custodial wallets are developed by Africans, they are rarely used or tested here. On top of that, Lightning is still new and complex, building mobile apps that are

deBridge's governance token, DBR, launched with an airdrop distributed to nearly half a million early users and community members. The token, based on Solana, has an initial circulation of 1.8 billion out of a maximum 10 billion supply. Recipients can claim their tokens in two phases, with a penalty for early full withdrawal. Trading for

Feb 7, 2020 at 11:20 UTCUpdated Feb 7, 2020 at 11:22 UTCBTC price chart (Dec. 25 2019-Feb. 7 2020)ViewBitcoin's bullish momentum is staying strong and resistance at $10,000 could soon be put to test. A break higher would expose the October high of $10,350. The hourly chart shows $9,850 has emerged as resistance in the…

The U.S. Federal Reserve's controversial instant payments service, FedNow, went live Thursday with 35 banks and credit unions participating, the central bank announced.Early adopters include JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, with 16 other institutions supporting processing of payments that the Fed argues will offer just-in-time access to paychecks and invoices."The Federal Reserve built the FedNow…

Oct 23, 2020 at 14:20 UTCMany active addresses. (ninita_7/Pixabay)Active Bitcoin Addresses at Highest Since 2017’s $20K Price RecordActive user participation in Bitcoin’s network has accelerated to levels last seen in December 2017, when the cryptocurrency printed record highs near $20,0000. The number of active entities, or clusters of addresses controlled by a single network participant,…

Interest in staking ether (ETH), or locking coins in the Ethereum network to earn passive yield, has surged since Ethereum implemented the Shapella or Shanghai upgrade on April 12.Data tracked by Glassnode show more than 4.4 million coins have been deposited into the staking contract since April 12, taking the tally to 22.58 million."The surge…

news Venture-backed startup Veil has acquired Predictions.Global, the leading site for exploring data on Augur prediction markets. “It’s certainly been the most used and popular third party-developed Augur product thus far,” Veil co-founder Paul Fletcher-Hill told CoinDesk in an email. Veil called Predictions.Global “the CoinMarketCap for the Augur ecosystem” in an announcement post on Medium. Augur…