CoinDesk Monthly Review November 2020

news Deloitte, one of the “Big Four” professional services firms, has officially launched a plug-and-play product aimed to help enterprises showcase their blockchain solutions to clients. The firm’s new “Blockchain in a Box” (BIAB) is designed as a mobile unit packed with four built-in nodes and several monitors that can be linked to external services…

news Poloniex is now crediting trading fees to lenders who lost funds in a May market crash involving the obscure cryptocurrency ClAMS. According to an official blog posting, Circle’s Poloniex exchange will cover lost funds by covering trading fees back through June 6. Poloinex’s Clam margin trading market experience a flash-crash on May 26. A 2014…

NEWS Sep 11, 2018 at 19:00 UTC  |  Updated  Sep 11, 2018 at 19:01 UTC The Bank of Russia has successfully conducted an experiment on token issuance, an official said Monday during the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, Russia, news agency TASS reported Tuesday. Ivan Semagin, deputy director of the financial development department of the bank,…

The Graph is an open-sourced indexing protocol used to collect, process and store data from various blockchain applications. It removes the need for data consumers like app developers to expand complex infrastructure for gathering on-chain data. The Graph currently supports indexing data from 26 different blockchain networks, including Ethereum, Near, Arbitrium, Optimism, Polygon, Avalanche, Celo,…

Apr 15, 2020 at 17:19 UTC3D Printing Could Help Now, Except for the IP IssuesCathy Barrera, a CoinDesk columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an economic advisory group, and was chief economist at ZipRecruiter. She has a PhD in business economics from Harvard. From Italian startups to  local school districts, many groups have adopted…

Excitement about the potential approval of spot bitcoin exchange-traded-funds (ETF) has fueled a strong rally in digital assets over the past month, but the move higher seems overdone, JPMorgan (JPM) said in a research report last week.Bullish sentiment has been buoyed by two main arguments, the bank said.“A spot bitcoin ETF approval would help crypto

news A loose group of developers are testing out the idea that the combination of bitcoin and orbital communication might provide a means for stopping governments or other powerful entities from suppressing news they don’t like. Censorship is a worldwide problem, with one of the more recent examples include a new law strengthening the Russian…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.David Z. Morris is CoinDesk's Chief Insights Columnist. He holds Bitcoin, Ethereum, and small amounts of other crypto assets.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Humans have always had a strange relationship…

Jan 5, 2021 at 9:38 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 5, 2021 at 9:39 p.m. UTCCoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price IndexMarket Wrap: Bitcoin Breaks $34K as Ether Futures Interest Jumps $350M in a DayHigher-than-average spot volume, even for the past month, is helping push bitcoin’s price upward at a time when traders are plowing into ether futures at…