Coinbase Wins Patent for Secure Bitcoin Payments System

The American depositary shares of Argo Blockchain (ARBK), the London-based crypto miner, fell as much as 5% in early U.S. trading, after the company said in a filing that some employees had inadvertently disclosed potentially material non-public information in a conversation. Shares subsequently recovered some and were down about 1% as of the time of…

May 13, 2020 at 16:04 UTCUpdated May 13, 2020 at 16:43 UTCPopular BTC Derivatives Product Goes Live on DeFi’s dYdXThe top bitcoin derivatives product is now available on decentralized finance (DeFi).Andreessen Horowitz-backed dYdX released its Bitcoin Perpetual Contract from private alpha on Wednesday, bringing the most liquid digital asset derivative to Ethereum’s burgeoning DeFi market…

A region home to 4 million people in Northern Syria is looking to cryptocurrency as a way to overcome economic sanctions. Rojava, also known as the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria, has spent the last six years at war for its territory, and now in fragile peacetime, the country is under economic sanctions from all…

Dec 27, 2019 at 18:04 UTCThis post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Ryan Zurrer is founder of Dialectic, a Swiss-based crypto-asset firm focused on on-chain opportunities. Previously, he led investments at Polychain Capital and served as…

news Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro will be taken down today. At least his visage, painted on 1,000 bolivars by cryptocurrency-focused artist cryptograffiti, will be. The destruction of the artist’s newest piece – an 11-foot by 10-foot portrait of the Venezuelan leader – will happen in Cucuta, Colombia, about 500 yards from the Simon Bolivar Bridge,…

NEWS The code for Bitcoin cash’s hard fork has been activated. With neither side of the contentious debate leading up to the hard fork willing to come to a compromise, two competing implementations of the protocol have now been activated. However, it’s unclear at this juncture which of the two will become the dominant software…

Jul 30, 2020 at 05:25 UTCUpdated Jul 30, 2020 at 05:27 UTCWill Foxley, Hayden Adams, Rune Christensen and Robert Leshner discuss DeFi on CoinDesk Live. (Screenshot)CoinDesk Live Recap: Ethereum’s DeFi Luminaries Discuss What’s NextFor decentralized finance (DeFi) to make its mark, it must reach beyond the crypto bubble, said MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen. “Compared to…

Feb 13, 2020 at 15:00 UTCUpdated Feb 13, 2020 at 15:08 UTCDTCC Fintech Symposium 2017. Credit: CoinDesk/Michael del CastilloThe Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) wants the financial sector to form a consortium alongside regulators to reduce risks associated with blockchain. In a white paper published Wednesday, the New York-based post-trade financial services firm said…

Feb 11, 2020 at 14:40 UTCCoinDesk will be on location at ETHDenver this Thursday. We'll be holding an informal reader meet-and-greet so we can get to know the Denver crypto ecosystem.Drop our local writer, Will Foxley, a line at william@coindesk.com if you'll be attending and we'll set a time to chat. The meet-and-greet will start…