Bitcoin Circles Above $29.5K as Investors Weigh Sluggish GDP, Latest Banking Woes

Oct 15, 2020 at 11:46 UTCStockpile (ediebloom/Getty Images)World’s Growing Stockpile of Negative-Yielding Debt a Positive for Bitcoin, Say AnalystsA global surge in negative-yielding bonds is likely to bolster bitcoin’s appeal as an alternative investment over the long run, experts say.The amount of global debt offering negative yields has more than doubled to $16.3 trillion in…

Jan 23, 2020 at 21:00 UTCUpdated Jan 23, 2020 at 21:09 UTCHawaii's bill would green-light banks as crypto custodians. But it doesn't solve the double-reserve problem that pushed Coinbase out in 2017. Hawaii State Capital via Shutterstock. Hawaiian lawmakers have submitted a bill that allows banks to provide custody for digital assets.SB2594, introduced on Jan.…

Aug 11, 2020 at 07:40 UTCBlockchain-Based Service Network (BSN), a Chinese state-sanctioned blockchain infrastructure project, launched its English-language website for international decentralized applications (dapp) developers on Monday.  First reported by CoinDesk on July 21, the website is part of BSN’s effort to extend its global reach. Developers are now able to build dapps and run nodes…

Mirae Asset Securities, South Korea's largest financial group with over $500 in assets under management, said Thursday that it is working with Ethereum scaling platform Polygon Labs to advance tokenization within finance and boost adoption of Web3 technologies.Polygon Labs will be a technical consultant in The Mirae Asset Security Token Working Group, which is working

opinion 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. In last week’s column — my third on Libra — I referred to a core…

NEWS Oct 19, 2018 at 12:00 UTC The sia blockchain network has released the formal code for an imminent hard fork that will block miners using hardware produced by Bitmain and other major manufacturers. David Vorick, founder and CEO of Nebulous – the for-profit firm behind the $239 million distributed storage protocol – announced the release…

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May 5, 2020 at 14:26 UTCUpdated May 5, 2020 at 14:36 UTCThe Bank of England (Credit: Wikimedia Commons) 4 Ways COVID-19 Will Bring Banks and Regulators to CryptoAjit Tripathi, a CoinDesk columnist, is an executive director at Binance and the crypto co-host of the Breaking Banks Europe podcast. Previously, he served as a Fintech Partner…

Jan 10, 2020 at 17:00 UTCUpdated Jan 10, 2020 at 17:33 UTCMARKETS DAILY: Basketball’s First Celebrity Token Shoots for Monday LaunchAfter years of discussion, Monday may mark the first time accredited investors can buy tokenized shares of a high-profile professional athlete's contract. Markets Daily is back with the latest on the NBA's Spencer Dinwiddie story…