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A Japanese analyst says that institutional investors are growing increasingly crypto-keen - and believes that the coronavirus pandemic will only serve to heighten their interest. Per Fisco, via Gentosha, popular Japanese...

The notorious bitcoin halving is expected to happen in 20 days either on or around May 12, 2020. The anticipation leading up to the event is at an all-time high, as last week worldwide queries for the phrase “bitcoin h...

Showing just how small the crypto space is, the recent U.S. stimulus package is 240% larger than the industry all-time high levels

Excessive leverage increases bitcoin's volatility and puts off mainstream capital from entering the market, says Vishal Shah.

EOS Ecosystem, a wallet app returns out to be a scam and possibly runs away with $52M user funds

Ripple Labs and CEO Brad Garlinghouse are suing YouTube over allegations that the video streaming giant has failed to police its platform against fake XRP giveaway scams, resulting in monetary damage to users and reputat...

How might Renaissance approach bitcoin as an underlying asset, given the hedge fund's reputation for using mind-bending math to find profits?

"If we don't fix the data paradigm...we don't really have free will," says Alex McDougall of Bicameral Ventures.

The Dutch Central Bank is making a bid to become the European Union's proving ground for a central bank digital currency.

The world's biggest crypto exchange Binance now tops the list of largest BTC futures markets, while BitMEX continues to suffer market share drop

The Zcash Foundation cut spending by 17% during the first three months of this year due to Covid-19 pressures. In its first-quarter report, the foundation said it spent only $2.68 million from an initial budget of $3.24 ...

Ripple Labs filed a lawsuit against Youtube for its "deliberate inaction" in stopping repeated XRP scams

DeFi fund Framework Ventures has purchased roughly 5 percent of Kava Labs' outstanding token supply ahead of the CDP platform's launch next month.

Big Tech vows not to sue developers using their patents to build solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic while a hacker returns funds stolen this weekend.

Nearly $1 million in bitcoin and ethereum flowed into child sexual abuse material-linked wallet addresses in 2019.

$930,000 in Bitcoin represents a 32% increase over 2018, which had in turn presented a 212% increase over the previous year

A crypto gaming company called Bling says COVID-19 has sent increased traffic to its games

Brad Garlinghouse. Source: a video screenshot, Youtube/Bloomberg Technology Ripple, an American blockchain company focusing on payments technologies, has announced a lawsuit against the video sharing giant YouTube. (Upda...

Bitcoin drops thanks to the oil crisis while a hacker returns $25 million in stolen crypto. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast.

Chainlink and Tezos are among the best performing altcoins of the past 18-months, but will they rally higher as the Bitcoin halving approaches?

Bitcoin-based smart contract solution Rootstock sees a DeFi protocol launch a leveraged token and decentralized stablecoin

The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s monthly index has plunged, suggesting that the U.S. has entered a recession. The index is designed to gauge the overall U.S. economic activity and inflationary pressure. It is a we...