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President Biden's emergency order to halt the Chinese-tied mining on the doorstep of a nuclear-missile base hit days after mining giant CleanSpark struck a deal to buy the property.
It is getting harder to buy XMR, but every day that monero continues to exist is proof positive of its value, says CoinDesk's Dan Kuhn.
The stock was the second worst performing among crypto stocks on Thursday.
The exploiter may not be making any money from the attack.
The aim of the Smart NAV pilot was to test a process to bring and disseminate fund data on multiple blockchains, a key step for tokenization.
The U.S. Senate joined the House of Representatives on Thursday in seeking to erase the controversial Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) crypto policy known as Staff Accounting Bulletin No. 121,...
First there was "The Bait." Then there was "Unblinding the block," followed by "The Search," and ultimately "The Propagation." U.S. prosecutors detailed an incredibly complicated Ethereum exploit in a...
France's securities regulator has issued a renewed warning against crypto exchange Bybit, urging customers to “make arrangements for the eventuality that the platform [may] suddenly cease to provide s...
Financial advisors seeking to navigate the crypto custody landscape must understand the full spectrum of crypto custody options, balancing innovation with risk management to optimize client portfolios...
The U.S. Treasury Department wants to continue beefing up anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing efforts around digital assets, as part of its broader strategy to tamp down on illicit f...
Alexey Pertsev, a developer of Tornado Cash, was sentenced to 64 months in prison for money laundering.
The bank sees limited upside for the bitcoin price in the near term due to a number of headwinds.
Spot bitcoin exchange-traded funds debuted with a giant splash in January, quickly attracting billions of dollars of investment. But who was buying them and why have inflows stalled in recent weeks? W...
The miner’s bitcoin stash is a protective feature for investors and opportunistic capital for the business to use for growth, the report said.
Notcoin, a gaming token that has more than 35 million users, has began trading at a $TKTK fully diluted value (FDV), according to TradingView.
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals. For the period of May 16-22.
Georgetown Law professor Christopher Brummer leads an annual event on emerging financial technology in Washington that became a top forum for crypto issues in recent years. Now he's joining the sector...
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for May 16, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
The Securities and Exchange Board of India submitted a recommendation that several regulators should oversee trade in cryptocurrencies, Reuters reported citing documents.
The ether-bitcoin ratio slides to a three-year low, extending year-to-date losses to nearly 16%.
One trading desk has seen an uptick in call buying activity with targets of as high as $120,000 for December 2024.
Pertsev was found guilty of money laundering on Tuesday by a Dutch judge.
Increased transactions on the Shibarium blockchain will lead to a higher burn rate for the SHIB token, reducing its circulating supply.
The CME is already the top bitcoin futures exchange by open interest, while the offshore, non-regulated Binance dominates the spot market.
Coinbase is developing a service which will specifically target Australia' self-managed pensions sector, the exchange's Asia-Pacific Managing Director John O’Loghlen told Bloomberg.
The net percent of global central banks cutting rates is increasing in a positive sign for risk assets, including cryptocurrencies.
Neel Somani, the founder and CEO of Eclipse Labs, stepped down after sexual assault allegations recently surfaced.
Two Canadian men have been arrested and charged with fraud for allegedly swindling investors out of $40 million CAD – approximately $30 million USD – in a crypto and foreign exchange investment scheme...
After Tuesday’s surprising disclosure of a $161 million allocation from the State of WIsconsin, more investment whales turned out to have been part of the unprecedented success of the ETFs.
In a highly technical overview of an exploit that has since been patched, government prosecutors find that exploiting code is a crime. CoinDesk reached out to several experts in the Ethereum community...
Sluggish U.S. retail sales and softer inflation reports have opened the way for the next leg up in the crypto rally, Swissblock said.
The result of next week's expected vote on U.S. legislation to regulate the cryptocurrency industry will strongly influence the odds the U.S. Senate gets on board, said Rep. Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.),...
In this week's issue, we've got the scoop on a new possible rival to restaking pioneer EigenLayer. PLUS Are meme coins an investable asset class? With the latest Runes data and $70M of project fundrai...
Decentralized machine perception, managed by tokens and cryptographically secure, could offer a privacy and effectiveness upgrade over centralized systems, says Nils Pihl, CEO and Founder of Auki Labs...
The former BlackRock executive is replacing outgoing CEO Tim Buckley, effective July 8.
Software engineer Rafael Cordón’s Simple Proof system helped prevent fraud in Guatemala’s most recent presidential election. Can this technology be used to insure against election interference in oth...
The alleged 12-second attack related to the controversial practice known as MEV, or maximal extractable value.
A House proposal to revoke the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 is likely to pass through the Senate in a vote on Thursday, multiple people familiar with the sit...
The market is just beginning and there’s a lot of room for growth, says Eliezer Ndinga, Head of Strategy and Business Development for Digital Assets at 21.co. Here’s what could drive the market.
Despite the drop in bitcoin’s price since April’s halving, there are still plenty of reasons to be bullish about BTC and crypto, says Paul Marino, Chief Revenue Officer at GraniteShares.
After ending its crypto custody plan, Nasdaq pivoted to tokenized U.S. Treasuries, but progress was too sluggish for some now-former employees, a person familiar with the matter said.
While Worldcoin's technology is based on iris scans, Humanity Protocol uses palm prints.
The pseudonymous investor – early to both Ethereum and Litecoin – has lived large. He is a speaker at this year’s Consensus festival in Austin, Texas, May 29-31.
The decentralized indexing protocol has raised over $17 million lifetime from venture capital firms and community investors.
Aimed at institutional investors, the systematic-based fund will seek to profit off uptrends in crypto markets while sidestepping the downtrends.