Ripple Endorses ‘Preferred’ Crypto Exchanges for XRP Payments

Mar 31, 2020 at 13:00 UTCUpdated Mar 31, 2020 at 13:27 UTCThere is still a lack of clarity around how taxpayers should approach their crypto reporting, respondents told Blox and Sovos in a survey. (Credit: Shutterstock)Crypto Holders Still Face Issues Reporting Tax Liabilities, Survey of CPAs FindsCrypto-literate public accountants are concerned their clients might face…

Nov 9, 2020 at 21:12 UTCUpdated Nov 9, 2020 at 21:27 UTCWhy Bitcoin Needs PhilosophyIt’s unsurprising when computer scientists research Bitcoin. Bitcoin is software, after all. And because Bitcoin uses incentives to shape human behavior, it also makes sense that economists study it, too. As a novel and provably scarce asset that can be transmitted…

Feb 24, 2020 at 23:01 UTCSTAND BACK: Justin Sun's Gucci sneakers on stage at the first NiTron Summit in San Francisco, January 2019. (Photo by Brady Dale for CoinDesk)The people who run the Steem blockchain executed a reversible soft fork Sunday, stopping one of the largest piles of tokens from voting. The move comes days…

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 Prices 00:52 Ether ETFs Saw Biggest Outflows Since July 01:01 Bitcoin Breaks $64K While Gold Soars 00:56 ETH/BTC Ratio Slid to Lowest Since April

Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of Ethereum’s 2014 PremineThe following is excerpted from Camila Russo’s “The Infinite Machine,” an in-depth history of Ethereum, which goes on sale July 14. The sale started on July 22 at midnight in Switzerland. The website they put together for the sale had a real-time counter of the…

Crypto as a whole is, I think, at something of an inflection point. With the recent “bull run” either on hold or cut short with prices below 2021 highs, the mounting crypto-speculative mania of the past decade seems to have settled down. That puts a premium on products that deliver, instead of just making big

"If Bitcoin breaks, then so does our industry as a whole, so we might as well use Bitcoin security for cross-chain DeFi," BOB co-founder Alexei Zamyatin, told CoinDesk. The team behind the project BOB – a reference to "Build everything on Bitcoin" – has presented the network's design to position Bitcoin, the original and thus

Following reports of Bitmain closing a $1 billion pre-IPO investment round, some notable investors have disputed their alleged participation.

feature The Takeaway: The charity arm of Binance was reportedly financed late last year by donations of at least $13 million. However, less than half of the donations made to the Binance Charity Foundation (BCF) are accounted for on BCF’s website, which shows under $6 million worth of crypto. BCF is partnering with the nonprofit…