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The Chair of the House Banking Committee has proposed giving free money to all Americans during the COVID-19 crisis. Critics say the move would create 'massive inflation'

Prices in the crypto market are seeing such a steep upward trend that arbitrage traders are able to trade between exchanges to easily capture profit.

Online scammers are now impersonating the World Health Organization to get Bitcoin donations for its COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund

If cryptocurrencies were beer, which would they be?

Massive Coronavirus stimulus packages from the US and EU strengthened equities markets and possibly helped Bitcoin rally to $6,359 today

Huobi's mining arm recorded a 547% surge in operating revenue in 2019 after the business was launched in March 2018

New reports show 562 accounts of Bitcoin blackmail over 2018 and 2019

Tether, the world’s most popular stablecoin, will be using the Simple Ledger Protocol built upon the Bitcoin Cash network for issuing its tokens. Among other things, this means that millions of Bitcoin.com Wallet users...

Source: iStock/hocus-focus After touching the USD 4,000 level less than a week ago, bitcoin (BTC) rallied around 50% and is now trading above USD 6,000 again. At pixel time (18:39 UTC), bitcoin is trading at c. USD 6,249...

Vitalik Buterin. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube, Business Insider Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum, finds money to be a type of game, but out of that game, there may be a solution for people to act towards th...

Tracking mobile-phone data may save lives during the pandemic, but will it become a permanent feature of the surveillance state?

CoreWeave, the largest U.S. miner on the Ethereum blockchain, is redirecting the processing power of 6,000 specialized computer chips toward research to find a therapy for the coronavirus. These graphics processing units...

XRP price dropped to new lows during Bitcoin's 50% correction but the current levels could present an attractive opportunity for traders

The new liquidation mechanism would pull the plug on futures trading should prices become too volatile.

In order to combat the coronavirus outbreak in Venezuela, President Nicolás Maduro has ordered the entire country to quarantine themselves. With an inflation rate that rises more than 10,000% per year, the country’s c...

Chewie, we're home. The markets correct as dollars flash red. Plus, a COVID-19 song. This is CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast.

Bitcoin's difficulty and hash rate are beginning to suffer from its price declines, data warns

The Florida judge has now approved fees and expenses amounting to about a quarter of the amount claimed.

Pascal Gauthier, CEO of Ledger. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Ledger As the cryptocurrency industry adapts to cope with the coronavirus outbreak and its catastrophic effect on the global economy, Paris-based major ...

Steem (STEEM), the social media-like blockchain platform launched in 2016, has seen a massive surge over the past two days, after it decided to evade a hostile takeover by Justin Sun and the Tron Foundation by moving the...

After three weeks of listening, recording and talking bitcoin in Africa, podcaster Anita Posch shares her experiences in part one of this new six-part documentary podcast series.

South Korea's landmark Special Financial Transactions Information Act amendment was promulgated earlier this week, a fortnight after the country's parliament voted unanimously in its favor. Although many industry players...