Venezuela’s Bitcoin Story Puts It in a Category of One
Venezuela’s peer-to-peer bitcoin activity has been extraordinary, whether measured as an absolute or relative to GDP, according to CoinDesk Research data.
Venezuela’s peer-to-peer bitcoin activity has been extraordinary, whether measured as an absolute or relative to GDP, according to CoinDesk Research data.
When the Nigerian government shut down #EndSARS protestors’ bank accounts, bitcoin and crypto became a way around.
Flash loans attacks have received a lot of press attention. But they're not DeFi's biggest vulnerability, says Chainlink's CMO.
Congressional Democrats blasted the OCC and Acting Comptroller Brooks for spending time on crypto during a pandemic.
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The exchange has awarded a bounty of $200,000 to private investigators who helped now-indicted bad actors who attacked the exchange in 2018.
The founder of the world's largest hedge fund said he sees three main problems with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.
After moving machines out of Sichuan, miners are bringing ASICs back online.
A coalition of Ethereum OGs is tackling Eth 2.0's "lockup" issue with LiquidStake and USDC rewards.
Startup capital in Africa still favors foreign founders at the expense of homegrown projects. A proposal to break the cycle.
Binance Coin and exchange tokens are popping as bitcoin's rally shows signs of temporary exhaustion and Ethereum gets snared in blockchain split.
The number of bitcoin ATMs across the globe has surged amid a coronavirus-induced shift toward contactless payments.
The transparency measure is meant to provide additional certainty for decentralized finance (DeFi) traders who often rely on asset-backed stablecoins.
The bitcoin market is likely to take a breather before continuing its rise toward $20,000 the end of the year, analysts told CoinDesk.
A blockchain-based streaming site is betting tokens can win over artists and fans.
The integration will mean Rakuten Travel Xchange customers can opt to use ShareRing's self-sovereign identity app to access bookings.
Centralized exchange tokens have been skyrocketing this year, but there is one problem behind the astonishing performance: They are becoming more like equity.
Platforms using an older version of the Ethereum client Geth experienced an accidental split of the chain Wednesday morning.
China Construction Bank will issue the debt securities over a blockchain, with trading to be available against bitcoin and U.S. dollars via an exchange partner.
Japanese gaming giant Capcom’s networks have reportedly come under attack, with criminals demanding a bitcoin ransom in exchange for not leaking confidential company information to the public.
The deposit contract for Ethereum’s 2.0 upgrade now holds over 50,000 ETH – 10% of the threshold needed to activate the watershed update.
October’s growth is less than half of September’s 68,000 newly tokenized bitcoins.
Gary Gensler, Simon Johnson and Mehrsa Baradaran are among the policy experts versed in crypto and blockchain issues named to Biden’s transition team.
Bitcoin’s price takes a break while DeFi value locked is at record levels.
Multisignature wallets are cryptocurrency wallets that require two or more private keys to sign and send a transaction.
Billionaire investor Stan Druckenmiller made pro-bitcoin comments on CNBC, joining other high-profile, ultra high-net-worth investors.
XMR, DASH and ZEC "were delisted at the same time for the same reason – to further derisk the company from a regulatory standpoint."
In the latest CoinDesk 20 revision, five assets were replaced by crypto assets that saw recent quarterly volume surges.
Even if they don’t know it yet, Michael Saylor thinks gold investors will eagerly dump the commodity for what he calls a superior store of value – bitcoin.
Cryptographic techniques, like zk-SNARKs and blockchains, could ensure online voting is secure and private.