West Virginia to Offer Blockchain Voting Statewide in Midterm Elections

In an interview with CoinDesk, Francis X. Suarez explains how he plans to attract the crypto industry to Florida. Mayor Francis X. Suarez(Dan Kuhn)Feb 3, 2021 at 4:08 p.m. UTCMiami Mayor Previews ‘Favorable’ Crypto PolicyMiami Mayor Francis X. Suarez wants his south Florida city to be a hub for crypto. Following in the footprints of…

An ongoing legal battle between XRP investors and payments startup Ripple is entering its next phase. Attorneys for Ripple Labs and its affiliated defendants filed to move a consolidated class-action lawsuit from its previous venue at the San Mateo Superior Court to the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, according to court documents published…

news Outspoken blockchain analyst Tim Swanson is joining U.K.-based Clearmatics, one of the top rivals to his former employer R3. Swanson, the founder and director of research at Post Oak Labs, has been on Clearmatics’ advisory board since 2015. He will come on board full-time next week as head of market intelligence, he told CoinDesk.…

When crises decimate an economy, governments try to look like they are doing something about it. The Great Depression spurred the New Deal, which included both banking regulations and a basic poverty-reducing safety net. The Great Recession brought about far less after millions lost their homes, but Congress could at least pretend that it passed…

Venezuela is set to begin using its "petro" cryptocurrency as an official accounting unit, according to the country's president.

Bitcoin hit a one-month high at $66,700, up 4% over the past 24 hours. Solana rose 8%, topping $170 for the first time since early June. Crypto observers highlight the resiliency of decentralized blockchains as a malfunctioning software update caused worldwide disruptions in IT systems. The crypto rally resumed on Friday with bitcoin (BTC) notching

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter, putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest Prices(CoinDesk)Top StoriesBitcoin fell to its lowest in over a month during the European morning, slumping to $63,500. This is the first time BTC has dropped below $64,000

Bitcoin (BTC) dipped under $26,000 in European morning hours on Monday amid a generally bearish sentiment among crypto traders and the lack of new catalysts to rally markets.BTC fell as low as $25,886 on Binance, CoinGecko data shows, before slightly recovering. Major tokens XRP, cardano's ADA, and solana's SOL fell as much as 2.2%, continuing…

Former U.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne has joined crypto exchange Coinbase's (COIN) advisory council.Osborne, chancellor from 2010 to 2016, becomes the second former U.K. chancellor to join a crypto firm. His immediate successor, Philip Hammond, joined Copper as an adviser in October 2021 and subsequently became the custody company's chairman.The appointment highlights the