XRP Cryptocurrency Now Down 90% From 2018 Price High

Jan 12, 2020 at 14:40 UTCUpdated Jan 12, 2020 at 14:42 UTC‘The Internet Was Illegal’ and Other Early Stories With Zooko WilcoxThe best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! show enlisted CoinDesk reporter Leigh Cuen and early cypherpunk Zooko Wilcox for a conversation on the history,…

Digital bonds and equities could benefit from lighter regulations for a period of around five years, under plans set out by the U.K. Treasury in a consultation published on Tuesday.The government said the new “sandbox” for innovative securities based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) could make markets more efficient, transparent and resilient, and wants to…

Apr 15, 2020 at 17:19 UTC3D Printing Could Help Now, Except for the IP IssuesCathy Barrera, a CoinDesk columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an economic advisory group, and was chief economist at ZipRecruiter. She has a PhD in business economics from Harvard. From Italian startups to  local school districts, many groups have adopted…

Cubist, a blockchain startup co-founded by computer science professors at Carnegie Mellon University and University of California San Diego, publicly released a new "wallet-as-a-service" product, aiming to solve the challenge of making account keys readily available while keeping them secure.The product, CubeSigner, "lets users request signatures through revocable signing sessions instead of giving direct access

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.Bitcoin (BTC) traders are taking a defensive stance ahead of Wednesday's meeting of U.S. Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Commitee (FOMC) meeting, with most expecting a “hawkish” pause,…

markets View Bitcoin gained 7.8 percent on Friday, confirming a falling wedge breakout on the daily chart. The bearish-to-bullish trend change was backed by a jump in trading volumes to levels last seen in mid-November. Prices could soon cross the 50-day moving average resistance at $3,642 and test resistance levels lined up at $3,800 and…

Feb 7, 2020 at 18:00 UTCUpdated Feb 7, 2020 at 18:23 UTCA U.S. judge has asked lawyers from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to provide an opinion in the case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against Telegram's $1.7 billion token sale.On Thursday, Judge Kevin P. Castel of the Southern District of…

Memecoins have always been a feature of crypto, but only recently has the sector grown to become a dominant theme in the ecosystem. Memecoin launchpad “Pump.fun” reached over $100 million in revenue after just 217 days of going live, a record for the crypto industry. Since Pump.fun hit that milestone, the sector has cooled off.

Binance has hired a veteran financial criminal investigation agent to head up suspicious activity reporting as it continues to strengthen its regulatory compliance front.Amjad Qaqish, a former criminal investigation special agent at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), was named as the largest crypto exchange’s director of global suspicious activity reporting on Friday.During his 30…