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Nov 18, 2020 at 5:31 p.m. UTCBlockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Latest Billionaire Bull, Zcash’s Upgrade, Grayscale’s $10B BreakthroughBitcoin continues to rally, with one indicator suggesting the bulls have room to roam. Zcash, the privacy-minded blockchain network, had its first halving. And acting Comptroller of the Currency Brian Brooks may stay on for a five-year term.Top shelfTop…

Crypto majors experienced a significant decline in the past 24 hours, with meme coins like shiba inu and dogecoin leading the drop.The market is looking toward Friday's U.S. PCE inflation data for guidance on bitcoin's direction, with some analysts predicting a drop to as low as $60,000.Some of the largest cryptocurrencies lost as much as

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Fran is CoinDesk's TV writer and reporter. Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Ethereum-based layer 2 blockchains are likely to benefit from the network's upcoming Shanghai hard fork, also known as…

Feb 26, 2020 at 05:00 UTCEver since FCoin fell insolvent this month, blockchain researchers have been poring over data to figure out what caused the failure and where all the China-based exchange's cryptocurrency went. A recent report from Silicon Valley-based Anchain AI wonders whether funds were pilfered by insiders, challenging FCoin’s official line claiming a data…

Apr 24, 2020 at 16:00 UTCBTC could hit $9K this year and Purse might have a second life. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.Today's stories:For early access before our regular noon Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica or RSS.Disclosure Read More The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic…

Jun 8, 2020 at 11:43 UTCUpdated Jun 8, 2020 at 11:58 UTCCredit: quietbits / Shutterstock.comFirst Mover: As Bitcoiners Eye Inflation Boost, Wall Street Sees Barely Any for Five YearsThere’s a disconnect between crypto markets and Wall Street.  Among bitcoin bulls, a key investment thesis is that the trillions of dollars of money injections by global…

Singapore’s financial regulator has issued a nine-year prohibition order against the founders of Three Arrows Capital, which prohibits them from operating in the country’s regulated financial services industry.Su Zhu and Kyle Davies will be prohibited from performing any regulated activity and from taking part in the management of, acting as a director of, or becoming

news The Kadena blockchain went live on mainnet Monday. Formally called Chainweb, Kadena’s blockchain is a proof-of-work (PoW) network similar to bitcoin. But where bitcoin struggles with processing large transaction volumes, the Kadena network attempts to solve the problem of limited scalability by weaving multiple PoW blockchains together to run concurrently. In doing so, the…

Valkyrie Investments’s bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) has won the blessing of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.The new ETF is set to start trading on Friday, after the bitcoin-linked fund cleared the final regulatory hurdles, a Valkyrie spokesperson said. It will trade on Nasdaq under the ticker BTF on Nasdaq, despite short-lived plans to…