UK Crypto Futures Exchange Adds Bitcoin Cash Contract

Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.Will Canny is CoinDesk's finance reporter.Featured SpeakerAlex ThornHead of Firmwide ResearchGalaxyHear Alex Thorn share his take on "Bitcoin and Inflation: It’s Complicated” at Consensus 2023.FTX’s collapse was the catalyst for a new bullish cycle in cryptocurrency…

This week in prediction markets: Second assassination attempt not boosting Trump’s odds as election betting nears $1 billion on Polymarket Oral arguments set for Thursday in CFTC appeal of the case it lost to Kalshi. Are you ready for 20X leveraged election betting? What will Trump say tonight? Donald Trump survived an apparent second assassination

That Bitmain is a behemoth is hardly news. CoinDesk had previously reported that the cryptocurrency mining hardware maker brought in revenues of $2.5 billion in 2017 and $2 billion in Q1 2018, but with the publication on Wednesday of Bitmain's draft initial public offering (IPO) prospectus – a step towards its much-anticipated listing on the Hong…

It is Election Day in the U.S. At some point in the coming hours, days and weeks, we'll know which major party wins control of the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House. Presidential candidates Kamala Harris and Donald Trump might get most of the headlines, but which political party controls Congress probably

Feb 21, 2020 at 14:30 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/Jacob LundThe organization that created the popular JPEG picture format believes blockchain could be used to verify images, as well as flag fakes and image theft.The Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) said blockchain has "great potential" as the basis of a system that would use a combination of encryption,…

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Eigen Labs, the developer of "restaking" juggernaut EigenLayer, distributed a list of employee wallet addresses to ecosystem projects preparing to launch crypto tokens. Some teams said they asked Eigen Labs for the list, but one said it didn't and felt pressured by the company to send its employees tokens. Experts and insiders say the payouts

The titans of U.S. tech have rapidly gone from being labeled by their critics as self-serving techno-utopianists to being the most vocal propagators of a techno-dystopian narrative.This week, a letter signed by the more than 350 people, including Microsoft founder Bill Gates, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and former Google scientist Geoffrey Hinton (sometimes called the…

Dec 7, 2020 at 5:19 p.m. UTCGrayscale Managing Director Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk archives)Blockchain Bites: $187M Blockchain Bond, $522M BTC Mining Revenue and ‘Ethereum-First’ Institutional InvestorsSingapore is funding blockchain R&D. Germany’s second-largest stock exchange’s crypto app saw $1.21 billion in trading volumes this year. Grayscale is seeing a growing number of “Ethereum-first” institutional buyers. Top shelfEthereum investorsThere’s…