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Announced today, the Blockstack testnet is open. Developers can now simulate the Stacks blockchain's new, hybrid consensus mechanism, which Blockstack calls Proof-of-Transfer (PoX).

The peer-to-peer trading service allows investors to directly trade security tokens directly and simply.

With bitcoin's price drop and imminent halving, mining farms in China are struggling to fill slots despite the coming rainy season, when power is cheap.

A new bitcoin privacy technology was born this week, using the Lightning Network and inspired by the politics of the COVID-19 crisis.

Bitcoin futures premiums have jumped into "contango" levels, a bullish signal.

Cointelegraph Talks Recap: Our first panel of speakers discuss the ramifications of COVID-19 on FinTech Development

Total Bitcoin fees paid over the last 24 hours increased by 50.7% to over $9,500, while the mean fee increased by 58.8%

Cryptocurrency lender Dydx advanced a total of $1.14 billion in digital asset loans over the past 12 months. But about 70% of the money was borrowed in just two months, February and March, as coronavirus-linked volatilit...

Following departure of Bakkt's CEO, new leadership will focus on integrating Bridge2 Solutions

Is there a way to reopen the economy that doesn't involve draconian surveillance measures?

There's a "general expectation for a pick up in volatility" around CME expiry.

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Harry Halpin, a speaker at Consensus: Distributed, talks about his lockdown, and how Crypto Twitter was right, for once.

Immunity passes could allow people who have had the virus to return to normal life. Here's how they work, and why we might worry.

Binance launches the Venmo of Africa, Cuba gets a new exchange and Starbucks will trial the "digital yuan."

The coronavirus pandemic has wrought financial chaos for all sorts of assets and commodities - including a massive crypto dip and plummeting oil prices. But with a barrel of crude diving into the negative zone earlier th...

Mike Blandina, Bakkt's CEO since December 2019, will be stepping down from the role, CoinDesk has learned.

XRP price is showing strength but has been outperformed by XLM over the past month

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Bitcoin is going around and around while Italy uses the blockchain to prevent fake news. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast.

Grayscale holds 1.7% of the Bitcoin supply and that says a lot about institutional demand for crypto

Bitcoin halving 2020: What will be the best strategy afterward -- to hold or to sell?