West Virginia to Offer Statewide Blockchain Voting in Midterm Election

With bitcoin setting a blistering pace for 2020, Markets Daily is back with the news moving markets, plus a look at several stories on the escalating, global interest in blockchain by governments.No time to listen? scroll down for the complete episode transcript...Tune in as CoinDesk podcasts editor Adam B. Levine and senior markets reporter Brad…

markets Bitcoin logged double-digit gains in October, outperforming gold for the first time since June. The world’s biggest cryptocurrency by market value ended last month with a gain of 10.26 percent, snapping a three-month losing streak, according to Bitstamp data. Meanwhile, gold gained just 2.74 percent in October, having dropped 3.17 percent in September –…

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Jenny JohnsonPresident and CEOFranklin TempletonJenny will discuss developing crypto-linked investment products in a bear market, the mood among her clients and her lon...Jenny JohnsonPresident and CEOFranklin TempletonJenny will discuss developing crypto-linked investment products in a bear market, the mood among her clients and her lon...Shaurya is the Co-Leader of the CoinDesk tokens and data team,…

Oct 2, 2020 at 20:15 UTCUpdated Oct 2, 2020 at 20:44 UTCMuch of the bitcoin outflow from BitMEX has gone to three of its competitors.(Shutterstock)U.S. regulatory authorities on Thursday brought a series of civil and criminal charges against BitMEX. Since then more than 41,000 bitcoin were withdrawn from the Seychelles-based crypto exchange. Where did it…

zkSNACKs has barred U.S. users from Wasabi Wallet indefinitely.The decision is likely due to the recent Samourai Wallet founders’ arrest and the prosecution of Tornado Cash's developers.The developer of privacy-focused Wasabi Wallet, zkSNACKs, has banned U.S. citizens and residents from using the platform.“In light of recent announcements by U.S. authorities, zkSNACKs is now strictly prohibiting

Coinbase is planning to provide. service to target Australia’s self-managed pensions sector.The exchange’s Asia-Pacific Managing Director John O’Loghlen told Bloomberg, "We don’t see this as cannibalizing the ETF players."Coinbase is developing a service that will specifically target Australia' self-managed pensions sector, the exchange’s Asia-Pacific Managing Director John O’Loghlen told Bloomberg.Crypto’s relationship with the pensions sector

Did CZ and Binance get away with it? Sure, Binance is paying literally billions of dollars and giving the U.S. government unfettered access to its books, while its founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao is looking at maybe a year and a half in federal prison. But Binance the exchange is still operating, while federal

A relatively new platform is trying to expand bitcoin (BTC) usage – beyond trading or investments – by building games on the Bitcoin blockchain that offer payouts on wins, among other uses.New Bitcoin City, which went live last week, currently offers casual games, board games, and strategy games on both web and mobile that run…