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Dec 2, 2019 at 12:00 UTCUpdated Dec 2, 2019 at 11:42 UTCWilliam of Orange image via DigitalPearls/ShutterstockDutch Crypto Startups Brawl With Regulators Over Scope of EU Money Laundering RuleThe European Union’s anti-money laundering directive, AMLD5, comes into law this January. EU states must decide how to implement the EU directive as it pertains to cryptocurrency.…

The arrival of the first bitcoin ETFs in the U.S. in January was a turning point for the convergence of traditional and digital assets. For the first time, investors were granted exposure to bitcoin through their traditional brokerage account.The core technology associated with bitcoin, cryptography, is not new but it has re-emerged with blockchain and

One of crypto's most feared attacks may have an elegant solution. At least, that's according to the team behind cryptocurrency project Horizen – formally zencash – which lost more than $500,000 in such an attack, called a 51 percent attack, earlier this year. This attack happens when one single malicious miner controls more than 51 percent of the…

markets View Bitcoin dropped 9.3 percent yesterday on the back of high volumes, invalidating the triangle breakout witnessed last Monday. A UTC close below $3,714 today would validate Sunday’s bearish outside reversal candle and open the doors to levels below $3,400. The longer duration charts are signaling bearish exhaustion, however, and any drop to $3,400 or…

Magnus Resch has been called many things: an art collector, a storyteller and at least once, by CNN, “the world's leading art market economist." He’s run galleries, taught in the Ivy League and has tried to quantify the often opaque world of art collecting.In his new book, “How to Collect Art,” which will be published

The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. (Bobak Ha'Eri/Wikimedia Commons)A federal appeals court on Tuesday affirmed a lower court’s denial of a motion to suppress evidence in a case that hinged on whether the Fourth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution protects Bitcoin blockchain records from warrantless search and seizure. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in…

Aug 14, 2020 at 07:17 UTCUpdated Aug 14, 2020 at 07:26 UTCHong Kong (Bady Abbas/Unsplash)China is planning a major expansion of testing for the central bank-led digital yuan, according to a Wall Street Journal Report on Friday. The country's Ministry of Commerce said earlier today that the digital currency – dubbed DC/EP, for digital currency/electric…

Danny is CoinDesk's Managing Editor for Data & Tokens. He owns BTC, ETH and SOL.A federal judge is keeping the freeze on $35 million in crypto assets held by SpartacusDAO, a crypto investments project whose leader faces a lawsuit from disgruntled investors in its SPA token.Judge Victor Marrero upheld his previously signed restraining order against…

Finance is full of misconceptions. TradFi isn’t, for example, very centralized. The global banking system is incredibly decentralized, with all different kinds of national and regional authorities and entities tying it together. Another myth is that old technology is costly and causing people to not have access to banking services. This isn’t true either. Often