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Aug 25, 2020 at 20:33 UTCUpdated Aug 25, 2020 at 20:38 UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Dips to $11.1K; Ether Mining Difficulty at Year HighBitcoin is looking bearish while Ethereum miners are reaping more fee revenue than ever before. Bitcoin (BTC) trading around $11,298 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET). Slipping 3.8%…

Mar 10, 2020 at 18:00 UTC"Bithumb had an immediate need for Reactor to manage their hack last year, and wanted to focus on boosting their investigative skills," said Chainalysis' Maddie Kennedy. Image by Danny NelsonCryptocurrency exchange Bithumb is clamping down on suspicious transactions less than a week after South Korea, its home country, moved to…

Devin Finzer is the co-founder of OpenSea, a decentralized marketplace for crypto assets. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  Games frequently serve as an experimental playground for new technology. Since the launch of CryptoKitties – a digital cat-breeding game built on ethereum – roughly a year ago, games have provided a…

Crypto has made “non-compliance . . . [its] business model,” at least according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler. With that belief pervasive among the regulators primarily tasked with regulating securities in the United States, it is no surprise that enforcement actions involving cryptocurrencies are at an all-time high.In just a

Nov 6, 2020 at 14:03 UTCUpdated Nov 6, 2020 at 14:19 UTCTezos logo (Shutterstock)Sygnum Bank, a digital assets company licensed in Switzerland, has launched services for Tezos, its first listing of a proof-of-stake blockchain token. Announcing the news Friday in a blog post, Sygnum said it now offers trading, staking and custody for tezos (XTZ).Users…

news It started with selling beer, but age verification could crack open a whole industry to cryptocurrency. CoinDesk previously reported on the demonstration of Civic’s beer-selling machinery at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW). Now the company is announcing partnerships with 12 major automated retail companies – AAEON, AR Systems, Fastcorp Vending, Global Vending Group,…

Copper has launched a service that allows institutional investors to create securitized tokens for a range of crypto-based products, from token trackers to complex trading strategies. Five funds are already using the "Catalyst" framework to create complex digital asset-based products that can be traded just like a regular stock, the cryptocurrency infrastructure provider said Wednesday.Catalyst…

Multinational bank Standard Chartered (STAN) has started offering exchange services for the digital yuan, China's central bank digital currency (CBDC).The bank's China division is working with City Bank Clearing Services to give customers access to the digital yuan's interconnection platform, offering recharge and redemption, according to an announcement on Monday.Standard Chartered said it has also

news IKEA Iceland has taken part in a commercial transaction on ethereum, using smart contracts and licensed e-money to facilitate the settlement of an order from local retailer Nordic Store. The transaction was carried out on a platform provided by supply chain management firm Tradeshift and used “programmable digital cash” from ConsenSys-backed Monerium, according to an…