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Nov 16, 2020 at 10:06 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 16, 2020 at 10:13 p.m. UTC(National Gallery of Art, modified by CoinDesk)Uniswap May Re-Up Rewards as SushiSwap Angles to Catch Itinerant Yield FarmersUniswap community members are scrambling to update yield farming rewards for the automated market maker’s (AMM) native token UNI as the initial liquidity mining program…

Jun 10, 2020 at 08:27 UTCUpdated Jun 10, 2020 at 08:32 UTCBitcoin payroll provider Bitwage has begun offering employees a way of receiving wages paid in cryptocurrency, but without the volatility. Announced Wednesday, company clients can now sign up to the Bitwage platform in order to pay their workers using the USD Coin (USDC) stablecoin,…

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markets View Bitcoin is struggling to produce a stronger price bounce, despite the defense of the 4-hour chart’s 200-candle moving average – a sign of buyer exhaustion. A bear flag breakdown on the 4-hour chart, if confirmed, would open the doors to levels below $7,000. The daily chart continues to call a move lower to…

Cryptocurrency custody specialist BitGo has acquired HeightZero, a firm that provides software tools for wealth managers whose clients may want to invest a proportion of their portfolios in crypto and digital assets. The financial details of the deal were not made public.Crypto has a reputation for fast-paced, speculative and complex trading strategies. Many institutional players

Vice President Kamala Harris appears to have beaten former President Donald Trump in the first debate between the U.S. presidential candidates on Tuesday, based on the direction of prediction bets on Polymarket, while crypto policy went unmentioned. Despite Harris' performance, the two candidates are effectively tied in the Polymarket contract for who will win the

Bitcoin (BTC) bulls may be in for a disappointment, Fairlead Strategies said, as a monthly technical indicator has flashed an "overbought downturn" signal.The stochastic indicator, developed by George C. Lane in the 1950s, recently turned down from above 80, indicating a loss of upward momentum. The indicator oscillates between 0 and 100 with readings above

Mar 10, 2020 at 19:00 UTCAn update on the safe haven narrative as bitcoin (BTC) continues to move with equities plus a crypto startup fundraising roundupFor more episodes and free early access before our regular 3 p.m. Eastern time releases, subscribe with Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocketcasts, Google Podcasts, Castbox, Stitcher, RadioPublica, IHeartRadio or RSS.Whatever you…

news The privacy-minded network Tor helps users to leapfrog one of the trickier aspects of setting up a bitcoin and lightning node, according to bitcoin startup Casa. Casa CTO Jameson Lopp addressed this point during a talk at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2019 conference, where he discussed what Casa has learned about its product – a plug-and-play…