Wealth Manager Canaccord: Bitcoin ETF Approval More Likely in 2019

Aug 18, 2020 at 18:30 UTCUpdated Aug 18, 2020 at 18:43 UTCWhy the Decentralized Web’s Development Is UnstoppableSteven McKie is a founding partner and managing director at Amentum Capital, developer on HandyMiner and HandyBrowser for Handshake and host of the BlockChannel podcast. A version of this article first appeared on Medium. The time to home…

Bitcoin remains above $70K as Asia begins its trading dayOne trader told CoinDesk that its too early to tell if slowing GBTC outflows will be a positive sign for bitcoin's priceBitcoin (BTC) looks to extend Wednesday's gain, trading near $70,800 while ether {{ETH}} changed hands above $3,500 as the market continues to digest a higher-than-expected

Sep 15, 2020 at 12:56 UTCCrypto investors inverting the gold-price scale is starting to seem like the sane thing to do. (Pixabay, modified by CoinDesk)First Mover: Bitcoin Investors the Sane Ones as Federal Reserve Cheers Inflation, Price Nears $11KOne of the interesting things about cryptocurrency investors is that they really do look at the world very…

news ConsenSys chief strategy officer Sam Cassatt is stepping down to launch a new venture fund, Aligned Capital, with the backing of ConsenSys founder Joe Lubin. ConsenSys said Cassatt will stay on with the ethereum venture studio in an advisory capacity. Speaking Friday at San Francisco’s TransTech Conference, Cassatt said his fund is seeking to…

Apr 13, 2020 at 20:21 UTCUpdated Apr 13, 2020 at 20:22 UTCThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Emergency Operations Center, via CDC, on UnsplashEurope Debates COVID-19 Contact Tracing That Respects PrivacyThis weekend, Google and Apple announced a massive coronavirus partnership. In the coming months, they’ll be rolling out updates to their operating systems to enable “contact…

One of my key questions about the next era in crypto and blockchain is this: How will all the capital likely be deployed into digital assets and cryptocurrencies as they become better regulated?More than 90% of the world’s financial and business assets are considered “on-shore” – that is, they are owned and managed by entities

Dec 17, 2019 at 10:00 UTCUpdated Dec 17, 2019 at 10:06 UTCLex Sokolin, global fintech co-head at ConsenSysThis post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Lex Sokolin is Global Fintech Co-Head at ConsenSys, a Brooklyn-based blockchain software…

Bitcoin (BTC) trading volumes on Binance have tumbled this month as lawsuits and regulatory scrutiny mount on the world’s largest crypto exchange.According to K33 Research, Binance’s 7-day average spot BTC volume is down 57% since the beginning of September versus roughly flat readings at a number of other exchanges. Volumes at U.S.-based competitor Coinbase are

Researchers at the University of California–San Diego will receive more than $800,000 to develop a distributed ledger to store scientific data.