XRP Cryptocurrency Now Down 90% From 2018 Price High

news A U.S. ice hockey team has launched a blockchain-based app allowing fans to ensure their merchandise and memorabilia are the real deal. Announced by the LA Kings Wednesday, the app uses augmented reality (AR) to be able recognize an authentic piece of registered merchandise versus a fake or unregistered and possibly stolen item, according to…

news So-called lightning network “watchtowers” — a much-anticipated next step for securing the network — are coming soon. Watchtowers have long been considered a missing piece of bitcoin’s lightning layer, as they’re crucial for squashing fraud on the experimental, off-chain network that could make bitcoin payments faster and more scalable. With version 0.7 of the LND…

Bitcoin's (BTC) recent drop below the $30,000 level sent smaller cryptocurrencies tumbling Wednesday afternoon.BTC's price fell to as low as $29,874, a 2.2% decline over the past 24 hours, according to CoinDesk data. The decline led to a sudden sell-off in altcoin – short for alternative cryptocurrencies – markets, which suffered 5-10% drops from Tuesday,…

Aug 5, 2020 at 14:58 UTCUpdated Aug 5, 2020 at 15:22 UTCCraig Wright (CoinDesk archives)Ex-Wife’s Testimony Suggests Craig Wright ‘Defrauded’ Court, Kleiman Lawyers ClaimRecent testimony from Craig Wright’s ex-wife suggests he misled the court on the nature of the Tulip Trust, an entity key to the ongoing Kleiman dispute, lawyers for the plaintiff claim. In…

Strong hands backed ether's rally to record highs, on-chain data suggests.Ether prices over the last week.(CoinDesk 20)Jan 25, 2021 at 11:29 a.m. UTCBig Investors Stacked up Ether as Price Rose to Record HighStrong hands look to be backing the recent rally to record highs for Ethereum’s ether cryptocurrency.The number of whale addresses (those holding at…

The U.S. added 187,000 jobs in August versus expectations for 170,000 and up from a downwardly revised 157,000 in July (revised from 187,000).The unemployment rate for August was 3.8% versus forecasts for 3.5% and last month's 3.5%.The price of bitcoin (BTC) was little-changed at just above $26,000 in the minutes following Friday morning's report from

Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Nikhilesh De is CoinDesk's managing editor for global policy and regulation. He owns marginal amounts of bitcoin and ether.Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash,…

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