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A Venezuelan crypto exchange has developed a service that supports crypto payments via SMS text messages, allowing users to enter the financial fold without an internet connection.
Blockchain's bestBrazilian financial regulators' new PIER data-sharing blockchain cost about $250,000 to build and it runs on the Quorum blockchain.
ScamsChainalysis has found crypto scams have taken a hit from COVID-19-led market turbulence.
Miners' anticipationAs the latest bitcoin halving approaches, miners are upgrading equipment, optimizing arrangements, conserving power and more in the race to dominate.
On this week's episode of "Bitcoin Halving 2020: Miner Perspectives," Kristy-Leigh Minehan and Pavel Moravec give an in-depth explanation of what miners are doing to maximize profits and increase operational efficiency.
CoinDesk ResearchMarch 12 changed how investors look at crypto markets and assets, shook out some participants and left others unmoved.
The CoinDesk Quarterly Review is a Q1 analysis of how the narrative has changed for crypto blue-chips like Bitcoin and Ethereum, which assets outperformed, and how the participants in crypto markets are shifting in the wake of Q1's defining event.
CoinDesk Research WebinarMarch 12 changed how investors look at crypto markets and assets, shook out some participants and left others unmoved.
The CoinDesk Quarterly Review is a Q1 analysis of how the narrative has changed for crypto blue-chips like Bitcoin and Ethereum.
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Published on Apr 13, 2020
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Bitcoin is nearing all-time highs in price and market cap last set three years ago.
Japan's megabanks to lead experiment with digital yen
We have, in order, Cheese Bank with a $3.3 million theft, Akropolis with its $2 million loss, Value DeFi with a whopping $6 million exploit and finally Origin Protocol's loss of $7 million.
Number of new Bitcoin addresses spikes amid growing FOMO
Japan's three largest banks, as part of a group of 30 private sector actors, are set to collaborate on an experiment with a digital yen.
Not just Wall Street: Quant trader explains why Bitcoin price is going up
Sam Trabucco, a quantitative trader at Alameda Research, believes four general factors are pushing up the price of Bitcoin.