The Latest News about Cryptocurrency

Joel Birch, co-founder of automated crypto investment platform Stacked, detailed his initial dive into Bitcoin as a way of gambling on the internet.

The CEO of publicly traded MicroStrategy shares why he started to feel like he was "Sitting on a 500-lb block of ice" and how he came to bitcoin as a solution.

Such an effort may show long-term dedication to the asset class.

The back-and-forth between federal and state power is one of the defining tensions of these United States.

Blockchain startup Enigma filed a registration statement for its ENG token with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, banks are reluctant to suggest alternative channels to their customers, says report.

The first stage of the highly anticipated upgrade to the Ethereum blockchain, Ethereum 2.0, is expected to launch by the end of this year.

Roughly 210 of the more than 500 registered and whitelisted investors in INX's initial public offering on Ethereum have put money into the sale as of Friday, Sept. 18, three days after the first distribution transaction took place.

The long-delayed megaproject is tentatively set to open this October.

"Right Place & Right Time," a digital art piece based on Bitcoin's fluctuating price action, has sold for more than $100,000.

These companies capitalize on our digital identities for their lucrative advertising-based business models, capturing enormous value at the expense of the privacy of their users.

While there are many such projects seeking to leverage blockchain solutions to improve climate data and finance green development, the mainstream view of crypto's impact on the environment is dominated by a more narrow, emotionally fraught debate: whether electricity-hungry bitcoin miners are setting us on path to environmental ruin.

While so-called "DeFi degens" are busy bidding up the price of food-themed tokens, on the other end of crypto's DeFi spectrum two teams working on the most popular implementations of Bitcoin's Lightning Network have been busy pushing out new features.

According to a report by decentralized application tracking firm DappRadar, social media can be a "Powerful tool" for predicting token price movements, especially as the DeFi space remains heavily driven by retail hype.

Sep 18, 2020 at 16:00 UTC.As bitcoin battles to establish a foothold above $11K and with DeFi surging on Ethereum, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back for your latest crypto news roundup!

There is now more than $1 billion worth of bitcoin on Ethereum, record-setting transaction volume is boosting Ethereum miners' revenue and VeChain joins China's food safety watchdog to build track and trace capabilities.

Payments-focused cryptocurrency Dash is starting to release insights into its new platform, which enables data to be stored within the network in the form of decentralized cloud service.

BurgerSwap is the first of its kind to be developed on the EVM-compatible Binance Smart Chain.

Uniswap's UNI token may be only two days old, but its price has already risen by around 100%.Data from CoinGecko shows the UNI token price has surged from just under $2.80 to a high of $5.80 in the past 24 hours.

According to data from Whalemap, an on-chain analysis firm that tracks Bitcoin whales, the $9,800 support has weakened.

Which asset is the most popular long-term investment - the answer may not surprise you.

"A new boost for DeFi tokens could be right around the corner," Arcane wrote Tuesday in a report.

The liquidators of defunct cryptocurrency exchange Cryptopia have told users they'll soon be able to register to claim their trapped digital assets, worth a combined $100 million.

Libra gets another member as it strives to have 100 entities on board.

The Chicago DeFi Alliance, launched in April, is poised to help members make a killing from the recent decentralized finance craze.

I identify as such due to a moral judgment I made, one that I arrived at after observing the results of our country's fiat paper money, odious debt and central banking system.

One of the oldest investment firms in crypto has joined the governance organization behind the Facebook-backed Libra project.

After closing a bridge round, my own VCs decided that a token sale would be in the company's future; I left the company to do other things and the company raised more money.

The leading cryptocurrency by market value is trading just over $11,000 at press time, having found bids below $10,800 on Thursday, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index.

Finance - a popular Ethereum-based DeFi protocol - has become one of the most talked-about crypto projects over recent months as its native coin YFI has surged over 1,000,000 percent since its July launch.