TokenInsight: 2021Q1 Crypto Futures & Options Market

Sep 22, 2020 at 13:12 UTCUpdated Sep 22, 2020 at 13:13 UTCU.S. election chaos in November might spill over into crypto markets. (Jose Guadalupe Posada/Metropolitan Museum of Art, modified by CoinDesk) First Mover: Bitcoin’s Latest Sell-Off Gets Crypto Traders Mulling Election ChaosIn seeking to explain Monday’s sell-off across traditional markets and cryptocurrencies, the digital-asset firm QCP Capital rattled off…

The dangers of government abuse threaten to outweigh the potential economic benefits of central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), according to the consensus of stakeholders considering the matter at Consensus 2023.Governments can’t be trusted to build public digital money without using it to conduct surveillance on their citizens, many participants said in roundtable discussions held during…

Andreas Szakacs, a co-founder of OmegaPro, alleged to be a cryptocurrency-related scam, was arrested in Turkey in July, Turkish media reported. Turkish authorities seized cold wallets and computers and tracked $160 million of cryptocurrency movements, the reports said. Andreas Szakacs, a co-founder of OmegaPro, was arrested in Turkey in July for his involvement with the

Sep 22, 2020 at 13:45 UTCUpdated Sep 22, 2020 at 13:57 UTC(kenkistler/Shutterstock)The U.S. government has made one of the biggest drug busts in history, with half a tonne of narcotics and millions of dollars in cash and cryptocurrencies taken from dealers that use the dark web. The Department of Justice (DoJ) announced the results of…

This op-ed is part of CoinDesk’s Tax Week, presented by TaxBit. Kristin Smith is CEO of Blockchain Association. Miller Whitehouse-Levine is CEO of the DeFi Education Fund.The long-running scramble for control between America’s administrative agencies and our elected representatives passed another important milestone this week.As the U.S. Treasury Department prepares to finalize a new, expanded

Jun 26, 2020 at 20:38 UTC(Timo Saarenketo/Creative Commons)After the largest options expiry in history, bitcoin ended its fifth week of bouncing around the $9,000s price range. Bitcoin (BTC) was trading around $9,180 as of 20:00 UTC (4 p.m. ET), slipping almost 1% over the previous 24 hours. At 00:00 UTC on Friday (8:00 p.m. Thursday…

High on-chain fees and transaction times for bitcoin can be off-putting to users, the exchange said.(Rawpixel)Feb 2, 2021 at 3:50 p.m. UTCOKEx Exchange to Integrate Bitcoin’s Lightning Network for Faster, Cheaper TransactionsCryptocurrency exchange OKEx says it will integrate the Lightning Network, a Layer-2 bitcoin payments technology, in the second quarter of this year.The addition of…

Dec 31, 2020 at 9:00 a.m. UTCProposed FinCen Rule on Crypto Wallets Would Likely Be Ineffective, Elliptic SaysThe U.S. Treasury Department’s proposed rules which would require users to comply with KYC requirements if they seek to send their crypto to a private wallet could end up being ineffective, according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. In its…

The “unparalleled” nature of Partisia Blockchain’s “provenance and depth of experience” makes it uniquely placed to solve the problem of data privacy in public blockchains, Adrienne Youngman, CEO of Partisia Blockchain Foundation told CoinDesk in an interview on Tuesday. Privacy has been a weakness for public blockchains for years causing enterprises and institutions to be