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Mar 27, 2020 at 09:00 UTCCoinbase CEO Brian Armstrong via CoinDeskCoinbase’s Retail Payments Wing Crosses $200M in TransactionsVirus or not, people are still paying for goods in bitcoin.That’s the verdict from new numbers out of Coinbase’s retailer payment portal Coinbase Commerce, which on Thursday passed a milestone in its two-year history: $200 million in total…

Nov 19, 2020 at 2:52 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 19, 2020 at 3:23 p.m. UTCGemini Exchange Is Using ClearBank for UK Banking ServicesClearBank says it has been chosen by the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange to provide its U.K. banking services.U.S.-based Gemini had announced in late September that it was expanding “fully” into the United Kingdom, offering trading…

Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Michael J. Casey is CoinDesk's Chief Content Officer.Christy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the…

Ether's sell-off has stalled at an upward-sloping trendline, characterizing the rally from October lows.The immediate resistance is seen in the range of $3,180-$,3225.Ether's (ETH) sell-off has stalled, with bears hitting a brick wall characterized by an upward-sloping trendline drawn off October and January lows, according to charting platform TradingView.The bears' inability to penetrate that bull-market

The U.S. SEC has asked a New York judge to impose a fine of $1.95 billion on Ripple Labs.The SEC asked the Court to consider how easily actors, particularly in the crypto asset space, can today engage in the same sort of conduct as Ripple’s.The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has asked a New

The bitcoin marketplace has halted withdrawal requests temporarily.(Shutterstock/Minerva Studio)Feb 9, 2021 at 8:57 a.m. UTCKeepChange Foils Bitcoin Theft but Loses User Data in Sunday BreachBitcoin marketplace KeepChange says it has managed to limit the ramifications of a security breach on Sunday.According to a blog post on Monday, the exchange said several bitcoin withdrawal requests had…

news An Indonesian financial watchdog has set out new regulations for the trading of crypto assets on futures exchanges in the country. The Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency (Bappebti), an agency under Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade, announced the new rules Monday, stating that cryptocurrency futures exchanges must be registered and approved before operating. The agency…

Dec 10, 2019 at 10:00 UTCUpdated Dec 10, 2019 at 10:32 UTCSaga Monetary Technologies has finally launched its SGA stablecoin, and it's already planning to break away from its pegged basket of currencies.SGA, the basket-backed stablecoin envisioned last year by the Saga Foundation, is a long-term play tailoring to two very different goals of the…

CoinDesk columnist Nic Carter is partner at Castle Island Ventures, a public blockchain-focused venture fund based in Cambridge, Mass. He is also the co-founder of Coin Metrics, a blockchain analytics startup.Veterans of the blocksize war that raged from 2015 to 2017 in Bitcoin were met with a curious sight this week: Bitcoiners complaining about high…