Losing the Lambos: It’s Time to Get Serious About Crypto’s Big Questions

Placed under provisional liquidation last month, Mirror Trading had claimed to be able to offer returns of 10% a month using bots to trade client's bitcoin.(Havoc/Shutterstock)Jan 15, 2021 at 9:17 a.m. UTCLiquidators of South African Bitcoin Trading Club Request Greater Probe PowersProvisional liquidators are seeking greater powers to investigate a defunct cryptocurrency trading firm after…

Dec 30, 2020 at 9:19 p.m. UTC(solarseven/Getty Images)Democracy Demands a Say in the Future of MoneyThe money we use is changing fast, much faster than we recognize. With the convergence of various exponentially accelerating technologies, such as encryption and distributed ledgers, the imminent future of money is digital, direct and democratic.This winter, bitcoin is once…

Richard Malish is General Counsel at NICE Actimize where he counsels on global anti-money laundering, fraud, trading compliance and banking regulatory matters. The New York Attorney General ("NY AG") recently issued a report on its fact-finding enquiries to multiple virtual currency trading platforms believed to be operating in New York. One of its many interesting…

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Nov 19, 2020 at 9:47 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 19, 2020 at 10:10 p.m. UTC(Photo by Mathew Schwartz/Unsplash)Travel Tech Firm Monaker Group Eyes Regulated Thai ICO MarketMonaker Group, which builds booking platforms for the travel industry, is venturing into tokenized assets with the indirect acquisition of Thailand’s Longroot initial coin offering (ICO) portal.The Nasdaq traded company…

Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Jack Schickler is a CoinDesk reporter focused on crypto regulations, based in Brussels, Belgium. He doesn’t own any crypto.Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash,…

On March 8, rumors of trouble at SVB caused digital assets to become entangled in the situation. The announcement that $3.3 billion of Circle's dollar-backed USDC stablecoin was held at SVB caused the stablecoin to depeg from the U.S. dollar.This led to digital asset investors selling positions on major exchanges. Bitcoin dropped from 22,410 to…

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesUniswap, a decentralized exchange built on Ethereum, has seen its governance token, UNI, rally over the past 24 hours. UNI climbed over 15%, outperforming the rest

news Opera is working to integrate support for Tron’s TRX and TRC-standard tokens in its browser-based crypto wallet. After the integration of the TRON blockchain is complete, the browser’s over 300 million users worldwide will be able to use the tokens within the browser, Opera said Wednesday. The integration will also allow users to play Tron games…