Wikipedia Competitor Everipedia’s Blockchain Is Now Live

The distributed storage blockchain network Sia has successfully completed a planned hard fork, changing its consensus rules in a way that prevents some specialized hardware from mining on the network. "All is working normally now," David Vorick, founder and CEO of Nebulous, the for-profit company behind the Sia network, told CoinDesk on Thursday. The fork,…

Omkar Godbole is a Co-Managing Editor on CoinDesk's Markets team.PEPE, the self-proclaimed "most memeable memecoin," has skyrocketed to more than $500 million in market capitalization in just over two weeks since launch.Still, funding rates in perpetual futures tied to the token remain negative, indicating the dominance of bearish positions in the derivatives market.A perpetual futures…

Jan 28, 2020 at 10:00 UTCUpdated Jan 28, 2020 at 10:09 UTCPROPERTY VALUES: In a possible first, a U.K. high court has recognized bitcoin as property, ordering Bitfinex to freeze an account holding 96 BTC believed to have originated from a ransomware payment. (Image via pxl.store / Shutterstock)A U.K. court has ordered Bitfinex to freeze…

Dan Cawrey is the CEO of Pactum Capital, a financial services firm focused on managing risk with cryptocurrency derivatives. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  Published writers say it. Powerful businesspeople say it. Elite athletes say it. Investors with a track record of smart decision-making say it; “Consistency is the…

Sep 17, 2020 at 13:08 UTCUpdated Sep 17, 2020 at 13:40 UTCFederal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell dons reading glasses prior to Wednesday's press conference. (Federal Reserve, modified by CoinDesk)First Mover: Federal Reserve Does What It Wants to Do as Bitcoin Hits $11KEvery time the Federal Reserve meets, it’s important to remember the only real monetary policy…

May 18, 2020 at 04:05 UTCUpdated May 18, 2020 at 04:13 UTCVROOM: Synthetix thinks optimistic rollups could make decentralized exchanges as speedy as their centralized counterparts. (Credit: Shutterstock) Trading Contest on Synthetix Aims to Showcase Speed of New DEX TechSynthetix is putting over $40,000 in crypto on the line to entice users to try out…

Farm assets like soybeans will be tokenized on a platform from CoreLedger for trading against other assets like cattle or fiat currency.Jan 28, 2021 at 1:06 p.m. UTCHard-Hit Argentinian Farmers May Get Boost From Trading Platform for Tokenized ProduceFarmers struggling amid Argentina’s hyperinflation and the economic effects of the coronavirus pandemic may soon find relief…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Oliver Knight is a CoinDesk reporter based between London and Lisbon. He does not own any crypto.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Polkadot, which describes itself as a "layer 0 blockchain,"…

There is limited upside for cryptocurrency markets in the near-term, Bank of America (BAC) said in a research report Friday.“Low conviction, limited catalysts and outperformance year-to-date leave the digital asset sector stuck in a trading range with a challenging macro backdrop likely capping digital asset upside,” analysts Alkesh Shah and Andrew Moss wrote.The bank says…