Below $7K: Bitcoin Price Looks Indecisive After 19-Day Low

feature For all the talk about liquidity, bitcoin and other crypto-assets are thinly traded. Investors that buy and sell large volumes can’t do so directly, without slippage, or a change in the price between order and execution. They turn to over-the-counter (OTC) desks to manage those trades, whether buying crypto for the first time, or…

Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk's advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers. With blockchain platforms being tested for various business processes, prospective enterprise users that are unwilling to…

May 1, 2020 at 11:47 UTCUpdated May 1, 2020 at 12:06 UTCFirst Mover: Tezos Led Crypto Market With Twice Bitcoin’s Gains in AprilBitcoin? Ether? Ripple? Meh. During a month where cryptocurrencies zoomed, the lesser-known Tezos beat them all. Tezos (XTZ), one of the largest and most prominent among a fast-growing roster of digital coins known as…

Astria, a blockchain project describing itself as the "first decentralized shared sequencing layer," has launched the main network for its alpha release. The project is among those aiming to decentralize blockchain "sequencers" – the component of a layer-2 network that compiles transactions happening on the secondary network, in order to record them on a main

It wasn’t supposed to be possible. Yet, with the advent of Ordinals and BRC-20, the Bitcoin network is seeing an influx of major developments that have unlocked BTCFi — DeFi using Bitcoin as its primary asset. This has brought new capabilities to a network traditionally known for its transactional simplicity, with the total market cap

Before Shopify, building and running an e-commerce site was expensive, operationally intensive and a logistical nightmare. Only large retailers could afford to build and operate an online store that could truly serve a large customer base, which made e-commerce seem like a small market. Enter Shopify: by eliminating the supply constraints — enabling anyone with

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news Crypto exchange Coinbase experienced a brief outage Wednesday afternoon, with both its website and API rendered temporarily inaccessible, as the price of bitcoin dropped more than $1,700 in the span of 15 minutes. According to Coinbase’s status page, the exchange reported major outages across its website, mobile apps and API, though its internal systems appeared to…

news Once again, Facebook will face the fire on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, with the Libra cryptocurrency project taking center stage. Mark Zuckerberg, the social media giant’s founder and CEO, will testify before the House of Representatives Financial Services Committee, arguing that Libra will benefit unbanked individuals and that the U.S. should allow Libra to…