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As the coronavirus pandemic makes remote work a necessity, a leading software engineer at a Ripple team offers advice

The search engine developer downloaded monero mining scripts onto 200 of Baidu's servers.

Bakkt has now totally raised over $480 million after closing a new $300 million financing round on March 13

As institutions unload bitcoin, crypto's traditional base - retail investors - is doing most of the buying, market participants said.

Key Bitcoin metrics show the network and digital asset are holding up well as equities markets turn bearish and COVID-19 halts economies across the globe

CoinDCX to provide $1.3 million through a pilot program that aims to increase crypto adoption in India

The Cardano Foundation is being sued by former research partner Z/Yen Group Limited, a UK blockchain thinktank

A number of attendees who contracted COVID-19 at an Ethereum conference in Paris have gone public with their diagnoses in what some are calling an act of "radical transparency."

The world needs a good cause to cheer right now in these tense times. Luckily, St. Patrick’s Day is coming up this Tuesday, March 17. To celebrate the holiday and give players an extra reason to smile, Bitcoin Games is...

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Today's recovery from the intraday lows is a positive sign as it confirms demand at lower levels

Far from reassuring the markets, the Fed's dramatic action over the weekend seems to have spooked them instead.

Bitcoin prices have been on a roller-coaster ride since Sunday afternoon after the Federal Reserve slashed rates a full percentage point and promised to pump $700 billion into the U.S. economy. But now bitcoin volume is ...

Coinbase's chief legal officer is designated by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to serve at major position at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by cryptocurrency exchanges that we found last week and today. Have we missed something? Do you have information ab...

Safeguarding privacy rights is tricky during a time of pandemic and panic.

Users of the Starbucks iPhone app are now being presented with "Bakkt Cash" as a payment option.

A Baidu employee who mined Monero on company servers is jailed for three years

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On Sunday, the U.S. Federal Reserve slashed the benchmark short-term rate by 100 basis points bringing it to zero. In addition to the rate cut, the Fed promised $700 billion in bond purchases and eliminated all reserve r...

After the past week, bitcoin will never again be considered a safe haven investment, argues Noelle Acheson. And that's not a bad thing...

Coinbase chief legal officer Brian Brooks will be the new COO and first deputy at Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees banking regulation in the U.S.