Bitfury Acquires Minority Stake in Final Frontier, Aims To Expand Services
The Bitfury Group has acquired a minority stake in blockchain services firm Final Frontier. Both organizations are looking to utilize each other’s knowledge and experience in the traditional and...
View ArticleBitmain Restructures Leadership Board Positions Ahead of IPO
According to recent reports, Chinese cryptocurrency mining giant, Bitmain, is undergoing a major leadership shuffle as the company restructures its board of directors ahead of its imminent IPO on the...
View ArticleThailand Uses Blockchain-Supported Electronic Voting System in Primaries
Thailand’s Democrat Party has become the first political party to use blockchain technology to elect its leaders in a primary election, which was held from November 1–9, 2018. In a live e-voting...
View ArticleBitcoin Price Decline Will Persist until Mid-2019: Crypto Analyst Willy Woo
When the bitcoin price flatlined near $6,500 in mid-October, many crypto analysts predicted that the bears had finally become winded following a market downturn that has persisted for nearly a year and...
View ArticleForthcoming Crypto Fund Extremely Bullish on Crypto Infrastructure and Adoption
A cryptocurrency fund that is scheduled for launch early next year believes that the current slump in prices is distracting people from the ever-growing adoption rates of both consumers and investors...
View ArticleRipple CEO Brad Garlinghouse: We’re Not Partnering with SWIFT — We’re Taking...
Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse went on Bloomberg TV for an interview about the usefulness of his company’s technology and told the interviewer that “any digital asset in the long-term is going to be...
View ArticleTarget Twitter Account Hacked, Platform Defenseless Against Crypto Scammers
The official, verified Twitter account of a leading U.S. retailer has been compromised by hackers, who are leveraging the account to steal cryptocurrencies from investors in an apparent giveaway scam....
View ArticleBinance Will Support USDC Trading Starting November 17
Binance — one of the most popular digital currency exchanges across the globe — has announced that it will be adding the fiat-collateralized stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) to its trading platform on...
View ArticleBinance Warns Iranian Traders to Withdraw Crypto Amid Sanctions
Binance is advising its remaining users in Iran to withdraw their money as the cryptocurrency exchange seeks to comply with international sanctions.
View ArticleFork Wars: Bitcoin Cash Dev. Warns that CoinGeek Will Attack ABC
During a largely celebratory live stream regarding the ability of Bitcoin ABC’s upgraded version of Bitcoin Cash to survive and thrive in a post-fork universe, Bitcoin ABC’s self-proclaimed “benevolent...
View ArticleReport: ICO Funding Stumbles in Q3, Regulation a Primary Factor
A recent report details just how weak initial coin offering (ICO) fundraising is becoming amidst the persisting 2018 crypto bear market, with Q3 being the least successful fundraising quarter for ICOs...
View ArticleBitcoin Price Analysis: Yearly Support Breaks as Bitcoin Tests Underlying Demand
After months and months of consolidation, the yearly support finally broke and now bitcoin has found itself in the lower $5000s for the first time since 2017: Figure 1: BTC-USD, Daily Candles, Broken...
View ArticleWhat We Know About Bitcoin Cash’s Two Blockchains
The bitcoin cash blockchain officially split today into two competing networks – but the story seems to be far from over.
View ArticleBitcoin Cash: ABC Network Suffered Spam Attack as Hard Fork Activated
Immediately after the Bitcoin Cash hard fork, the blocks on the Bitcoin ABC chain started filling up with nonsensically small transactions. At the time of writing shortly after the fork, three such...
View ArticleBrian Kelly: Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork Caused “Crypto Civil War”
Brian Kelly, founder and CEO of cryptocurrency investment firm BKCM, has said the market is experiencing a “crypto civil war” as the announced “hard fork” in Bitcoin Cash failed to gain consensus...
View ArticleCrypto Exchange OKCoin Expands to Latin America & Opens Fiat Market
Popular cryptocurrency exchange OKCoin has recently revealed, through a press release shared with CCN, that it expanded to the Latin American market, with a platform that’s set to let users trade top...
View ArticleOkCoin Exchange Launches Operation in Argentina in Conquest of Latin America
OkCoin, a leading digital asset platform for fiat and token trading headquartered in Beijing, has expanded its operation to Argentina and is about to do the same in other Latin America countries....
View ArticleAfter Friday’s SEC Actions, Experts Say ICO Party ‘Is Truly Over’
Friday’s charges against Airfox and Paragon Coin may hint at how the SEC will regulate ICOs going forward.
View ArticleOne Day After the Bitcoin Cash Hard Fork: Takeaways and Latest Developments
Bitcoin Cash, the “big block” project that forked away from the Bitcoin blockchain in August 2017, “hard forked” (split) into two different coins: “Bitcoin Cash ABC” (BCH ABC) and “Bitcoin Cash SV”...
View ArticleTutorial: How to Use CoinDesk’s Crypto-Economics Explorer
CoinDesk’s Crypto-Economics Explorer is our innovative new data tool that brings together a host of data types. Here’s how to make the most of it.
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