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news Bakkt is ready to store customers’ bitcoin. Intercontinental Exchange’s bitcoin subsidiary announced Monday it would provide custody services for institutional clients. Pantera Capital, Galaxy Digital and Tagomi have already signed on as initial customers for “Baakt Warehouse,” with other “marquee firms” expected to join over the next few weeks. When it first launched, Bakkt was…

markets View Bitcoin’s price recovery from the Aug. 29 low of $9,320 is backed by an uptick in the dominance rate to 30-month highs. Weak trading volumes, however, indicate the recovery could be short-lived and a fall back to $9,750 could be in the offing in the next day or two. Weekly chart indicators continue…

news A brief outage Tuesday morning at 10:00AM Eastern took down a number of crypto information and trading sites including Coinbase and CoinMarketCap. The issues cleared up around 10:18AM and most sites seem to be running again. Cloudflare, a CDN provider, first noticed the outage at 1:52PM UTC/9:52 AM Eastern and the impacted sites went…

May 29, 2020 at 16:54 UTCUpdated May 29, 2020 at 17:06 UTCCredit: History in HD/UnsplashBlockchain Bites: Magic’s Raise, Compound’s Distribution and Trump’s Twitter WarThe case for decentralized platforms has never been clearer, as President Donald Trump goes on the offensive against big tech platforms like Twitter and Facebook, said lawyers and technologists surveyed by CoinDesk.…

Aug 18, 2020 at 20:27 UTCUpdated Aug 18, 2020 at 20:28 UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Slides to $11.8K; Uniswap at $7M in Monthly ETH FeesBitcoin’s prices were off from Monday’s high. Meanwhile, high fees on Ethereum helped decentralized exchange Uniswap rake in $7 million over the past month. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around…

Blockchain firm Ripple appointed the CFO of market research firm Nielsen, Warren Jenson, to its board, the firm said on Friday.“For cryptocurrency to successfully deliver on its potential to revolutionize traditional financial infrastructure, companies in the space must prioritize transparency,” Jenson said in a release. “I’m excited to bring my experience to the company and…

Bittrex Won’t Disclose Why It Withdrew Support for Dash, Zcash, MoneroNumerous exchanges, like Bittrex, have delisted coins that have features to protect user privacy.Explanations of why they’ve done so have been vague or non-existent.It has set up clashes between the exchanges and Zcash, Monero and Dash over whether there is actually regulatory pressure to do…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Shaurya is the Co-Leader of the CoinDesk tokens and data team, focusing on decentralized finance, markets, on-chain data, and governance across all major and minor blockchains.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April…

Jan 11, 2021 at 2:44 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 11, 2021 at 2:47 p.m. UTCUS-Listed Chinese Lottery Firm Plans $14.4M Move Into Bitcoin MiningChinese sports lottery firm 500.com (NYSE: WBAI) announced Monday that it has entered into a purchase agreement to acquire bitcoin mining machines.500.com said it expects to issue $14.4 million-worth of its Class A…