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May 12, 2020 at 16:06 UTCUpdated May 12, 2020 at 16:15 UTCCipherTrace Chief Financial Analyst John Jefferies (Credit: CipherTrace)CipherTrace, a blockchain analytics partner of governments and cryptocurrency exchanges, is pitching itself to a fresh clientele: central banks.The crypto investigations firm announced Tuesday it is establishing a central bank digital currency (CBDC) initiative. As described by…

news Uzbekistan’s Ministry of Energy has introduced a new bill that threatens to stifle the cryptocurrency mining industry in the Central Asian nation. Published on Friday, the draft bill would usher in a sharp hike in the power rates charged to miners – crypto industry participants who use powerful computers to record and secure transactions on blockchains. The…

news Kosala Hemachandra is the founder of MEW (MyEtherWallet), an open-source, client-side interface for generating ethereum wallets and interacting with the ethereum blockchain. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review.  For the most part, Bitcoin and Ethereum have held the title of the top two cryptocurrencies with the largest market capitalization.…

On Thursday, short-term holders sent over $2 billion worth of bitcoin to exchanges at a loss, the most since the yen carry trade unwind on Aug. 5. In the past three days, short-term holders sent more than $6 billion worth of bitcoin to exchanges at a profit, locking in gains as the month drew to

news Updated (09:35 UTC): Added further details from Bloomberg’s full report. Seychelles-based cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX is reportedly being probed by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). The news appeared in brief on Bloomberg Terminal soon before press time on Friday. That was soon followed by a report from Bloomberg citing sources who said the regulator is investigating…

The new unit expands Tether's foray into artificial intelligence, which commenced last year with an investment into Frankfurt-listed Northern Data.Tether has listed roles for a head of AI research and an AI engineer01:03El Salvador Targets Bitcoin Millionaires in New Push to Attract Long-Term Residents02:02OpenAI's Ex-CEO Sam Altman Joins Microsoft; Bullish Completes Purchase of CoinDesk: WSJ02:09BitGo

Dec 14, 2020 at 9:40 a.m. UTC(Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Treasury Dept.)Ex-People’s Bank Chief Says Digital Yuan Not Planned to Replace Global CurrenciesA former governor of China’s central bank believes the digital yuan won’t upset the order of the global monetary system.According to a report by the South China Morning Post on Sunday, Zhou Xiaochuan told attendees…

No, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, the Massachusetts Democrat who typically antagonizes the blockchain industry, has not had a sudden change of heart on Bitcoin.Warren has fashioned herself as one of blockchain's fiercest critics in the Senate, spearheading bills like last year's Digital Asset Anti-Money Laundering Act that aimed to curb the ability for financial institutions

As the Celo blockchain prepares to migrate into a layer 2 network on Ethereum, there's suddenly competition to provide technology to the project.Sandeep Nailwal, co-founder of Polygon Labs, submitted a proposal to the Celo community on Wednesday, pitching that the blockchain make use of Polygon’s Chain Development Kit – a codebase that developers can use