Preston Byrne: Peirce’s Safe Harbor Proposal Would Be Hilarious if It Weren’t so Serious
In his first column for CoinDesk, Preston Byrne responds to Hester Peirce's proposal for a token sale safe harbor.
In his first column for CoinDesk, Preston Byrne responds to Hester Peirce's proposal for a token sale safe harbor.
SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce has proposed a new way to regulate token sales. If there are better alternatives, she wants to hear about them.
The attacker manipulated price feeds in order to create and profit from an under collateralized loan.
Blocknox, a subsidiary of the second-largest German stock exchange, is expanding its crypto custody service to institutional players.
While a long-term price indicator has flipped bullish, bitcoin is struggling to gather upside traction and looks vulnerable near the seven-week rising trendline support.
The Enjin Platform allows devs to integrate crypto tokens into apps and games.
When ShapeShift implemented KYC requirements, Erik Voorhees lost 95 percent of his users. But he remains as committed to crypto as ever.
The Australian entrepreneur who claims to be the inventor of bitcoin has suggested he might take legal action over claimed infringement of his intellectual property.
Russia is looking at creating a regulatory distinction between asset tokenization and 'pure' cryptocurrencies.
China is taking a great leap forward to develop a central bank digital currency, with more than 80 patents filed by the People’s Bank last week.
The new ETH options will be tradable for just 24 hours before expiry.
Speculation clogs up blockchains, making them harder to use and ultimately less valuable, a working paper suggests.
Fcoin, a crypto exchange that adopted the controversial "trans-fee mining" model, has paused trading and withdrawal services after revealing a shortage of crypto assets worth up to $130 million.
Binance will soon launch a digital asset trading platform to power smaller exchanges in their local markets.
Copper uses its "Walled Garden" infrastructure to allow clients to trade crypto assets more securely from custody.
Sunday's "doji" candle weakened the case for a deeper price pullback, however, a positive follow-through is needed to confirm bull revival.
The world's top cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume is hoping to get the official green light to operate in Singapore.
Beijing-based blockchain startup Conflux has hired the former head of crypto at VC firm Outlier Ventures to lead a North American expansion.
Bitcoin miner maker MicroBT rapidly expanded market share by selling over half a million units in 2019, chipping away at rival Bitmain's dominance.
"When we joined the Libra Association, it wasn't like, 'Oh, hey, Facebook is doing something let's join.' It's really about the difference we're making in the world," said Bison Trails' Viktor Bunin.
Sometimes the very laws meant to enforce privacy can result in companies sharing it.
Demand for DeFi lending services built on ethereum shows a pattern of inverse relationship to the price of ETH. When ether prices are falling, the amount of ETH locked in DeFi tends to rise. Most recent data indicate the relationship operates the other way, too.
A $350,000 hack casts light on the problem of depending on single price oracles.
Colorado Gov. Jared Polis joined CoinDesk at ETHDenver where he talked about the future of crypto regulation.
There are tangible safety implications to consumer privacy violations, says Lindsey Barrett of Georgetown Law.
The CFTC is charging Breonna Clark and Venture Capital Investments with defrauding investors by pretending to run a commodity pool invested in crypto and foreign currency contracts.
To the operators of high-speed computers used to mine for bitcoin, the halving looks more like a doubling — of costs.
The cloud services arm of the Silicon Valley tech giant becomes the 11th member to join the council, but has no plans to further endorse the network.
The blockchain center at the University of Wyoming will feature a Plutus development facility, providing blockchain developers with an applied laboratory for writing code in cardano's smart-contract language.
A new organization composed of TON developers and investors has filed an amicus brief supporting Telegram in its fight against the SEC.