What It’s Like to Be a Woman In China’s Get-Rich-Quick Crypto Culture

Mar 23, 2020 at 00:05 UTCUpdated Mar 23, 2020 at 00:20 UTCThe Australian share market fell sharply during its opening session of trading on Monday (AEST) after the country's Prime Minister announced drastic measures to curb the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).Reeling from its worst week since the global financial crisis in 2008-2009, the benchmark S&P/ASX200…

Google Cloud(Adam Berry/Getty Images)Google Cloud Does Not Intend to Take EOS Rewards as a Block ProducerGoogle Cloud is not getting into EOS for the tokens. “Google Cloud is not getting into crypto mining. This is really an infrastructure play for us,” Google Cloud Developer Advocate Allen Day told CoinDesk via a spokesperson.On Tuesday, Block.one, the company…

Nov 25, 2020 at 3:03 p.m. UTCGabor Gurbacs, director of digital-asset strategy at VanEck(CoinDesk archives)VanEck Launches Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Note on Deutsche BoerseVanEck, the New York-based investment management firm with around $50 billion in AUM, has launched a bitcoin exchange-traded-note (ETN) that for trading on the Deutsche Boerse Xetra.Listed on the Frankfurt, Germany-based trading venue Wednesday,…

If you follow the market news about bitcoin, you will have seen the price increase at the end of 2023 in anticipation of U.S. approval of spot bitcoin ETFs. Applicants had until Dec. 29 to update their applications with the SEC in anticipation of possible approvals in early January.Are you ready to answer client questions

news More than a year after he sold one of China’s longest-running bitcoin exchanges, Bobby Lee, co-founder and former CEO of BTCC, is back. Announced Thursday at CoinDesk’s Invest: Asia event in Singapore, Lee’s new venture, Ballet, is rolling out a hardware wallet supporting multiple cryptocurrencies. To differentiate its product and spur adoption outside crypto circles,…

Jun 30, 2020 at 13:00 UTCElliptic Follows Chainalysis in Adding Zcash to Monitoring PlatformBlockchain analysis company Elliptic has added two privacy coins to its monitoring platform. Announced Tuesday, the addition of zcash (ZEC) and horizen (ZEN) will provide exchanges and institutional investors insight into when a transaction trail ends so they can take additional due-diligence…

Jan 9, 2020 at 23:22 UTCUpdated Jan 9, 2020 at 23:23 UTCVintage sardine tins photo by John Biggs for CoinDeskIt smelled fishy from the start.On Wednesday, MY Sardines, a Luxembourg-based company, announced its intention to launch a cryptocurrency backed by –  are you sitting? – vintage sardines. Word of the unconventional initial coin offering (ICO) prompted…

feature In 2019, the Singapore-based exchange conglomerate Huobi Group is prioritizing Wall Street partnerships for the first time. Since it was founded six years ago, Huobi Group has come to dominate several global crypto exchange markets, thanks in part to its popularity among deep-pocketed Chinese traders. According to company officials, Huobi Group has managed $1…

From the price of coffee to the national debt as a percentage of GDP, these 11 numbers provide a picture of a fast changing global economy.  For 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. This episode is sponsored by Crypto.com, Bitstamp and Nexo.io.…