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Dec 1, 2020 at 9:50 p.m. UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Falls to $18.1K as Correlation to Ether Picks UpThe price of bitcoin took a bit of a dip, though overall market sentiment remains bullish. Ether’s correlation to bitcoin is going up despite differences in value propositions.Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $19,077 as of…

Sep 23, 2020 at 17:50 UTCUpdated Sep 23, 2020 at 18:23 UTC((Emile Perron/Unsplash))Blockchain Commons Internship Introduces New Developers to Open SourceThe Takeaway:For this year’s Blockchain Commons internship, Christopher Allen had an uncommon “problem”: too many quality applications to turn down.Instead, he expanded the program to accommodate 7 interns where he usually only accepts one.With the…

ErisX Unit Gets CFTC ‘OK’ to Clear Fully Collateralized SwapsEris Clearing LLC, the clearing arm of Eris Exchange, has won the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s blessing to provide clearing services for fully collateralized swaps in addition to its existing business of clearing virtual currency products.Eris Exchange, better known as ErisX, is a Chicago-based crypto futures…

Sorare, a blockchain-based fantasy sports company, was charged with providing unlicensed gambling facilities. The charges, the first brought against a blockchain platform, may signal a precedent for how the Gambling Commission plans to deal with Web3 companies in the future. Sorare, a fantasy sports company, was charged with providing unlicensed gambling facilities in the U.K.

Bearish bets on bitcoin (BTC) have cost traders over $178 million in the past 24 hours as prices soared past a critical resistance level. The jump in bitcoin prices came as a ticker registration bumped hopes of an oncoming spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) approval.Data shows bitcoin-tracked futures accounted for nearly 50% of the total

Nov 29, 2019 at 22:00 UTCUpdated Nov 29, 2019 at 22:01 UTCMansudae Monument at June 11, 2014 in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Photo by: Attila Jandi / Shutterstock.com)US Arrests Ethereum Developer for Training North Koreans to Evade SanctionsVirgil Griffith, who has lately been working at the Ethereum Foundation, has been arrested for allegedly going to a…

Danny is CoinDesk's Managing Editor for Data & Tokens. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL.Crypto trading firm Coinbase is opening a derivatives exchange in Bermuda as part of an international expansion plan that comes as the publicly traded firm faces regulatory headwinds at home.Called Coinbase International Exchange, the new facility will initially let traders bet…

GATHER 'ROUND: Casa CTO Jameson Lopp addresses the virtual attendees of the MIT Bitcoin Expo. (Image courtesy of Udi Wertheimer)Human frailty knows no bounds – even the virtual ones.I attended a virtual reality meetup hosted by bitcoin advocate Udi Wertheimer on Sunday for the MIT Bitcoin Expo. Instead of jaunting up to Cambridge for the…

Bitcoin (BTC), the world's largest cryptocurrency by market value, has pushed above the $45,000 mark for the first time since the day after the spot ETFs began trading on Jan. 11. At press time, BTC was higher by 4.9% over the past 24 hours to $45,034, modestly outperforming a 4.4% rise for the broader CoinDesk