DappRadar: Dapp Industry Report Q1 2021

Transfer of bitcoin (BTC) from miners to centralized exchanges has picked up the pace since May 31, according to data tracked by blockchain analytics firm Glassnode.Data from Glassnode shows miners or entities minting coins by verifying transactions on the blockchain have moved 6671.99 BTC ($174 million) to exchanges since May 31. On June 3 alone,…

Bitcoin (BTC) is all set to end August with double digit-losses, but a closer look at the price action suggest better times lie ahead for the leading cryptocurrency. At time of writing, BTC is trading at $6,940 – down 10.7 percent from the month's opening price of $7,727, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index. However,…

With bitcoin setting a blistering pace for 2020, Markets Daily is back with the news moving markets, plus a look at several stories on the escalating, global interest in blockchain by governments.No time to listen? scroll down for the complete episode transcript...Tune in as CoinDesk podcasts editor Adam B. Levine and senior markets reporter Brad…

Numerous other applications, known as layer-2 or L2 protocols, are being built in addition to Ethereum's functionality. Research analysts Christopher Jensen and David Alderman from Franklin Templeton Digital Assets discuss how Ethereum underlays the Platform economy.In Ask an Expert, David Lawant from FalconX answers questions about staking and other applications built on Ethereum.You’re reading Crypto

markets View Bitcoin has dived out of a narrowing price range and may see a deeper drop if key trendline support near $10,120 is breached. Acceptance below $10,120 would expose the recent low of $9,855. Some notable observers believe the decline may be reversed following Wednesday’s Federal Reserve rate cut, although historical data suggests otherwise.…

feature The computing power dedicated to mining bitcoin has hit yet another new high, suggesting that more than 600,000 powerful new machines may have come online in the last three months. According to data from crypto mining pool BTC.com, bitcoin’s two-week average hash rate has crossed another major threshold, reaching 85 exahashes per second (EH/s)…

Jul 23, 2020 at 04:45 UTCUpdated Jul 23, 2020 at 04:46 UTCOrchid (Isaac Quesada/Unsplash)An Ethereum-based service for privately browsing the web now has a desktop app for Mac users. Orchid VPN announced the launch in a Wednesday blog post, highlighting the ease with which users can purchase bandwidth using an Apple ID. “This marks one…

Dec 26, 2020 at 1:38 a.m. UTCTurkey to Pilot Digital Currency in 2021, Says Central Bank GovernorTurkey will begin piloting a previously undisclosed digital currency in the second half of 2021, the country’s chief central banker Naci Ağbal told members of parliament Friday. Turkish-language media widely quoted him as follows:“There is an R&D project initiated…

Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He doesn’t own any crypto.Hungary sees no urgent need for a widely available central bank digital currency (CBDC) but is experimenting to see if one could help the unbanked, a senior official said on Wednesday.In principle, as a European Union (EU)…