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Bitcoin hit $7,600 on Thursday, its highest level yet since crashing in early March. The cryptocurrency climbed more than 10% during the last 24 hours spurred by the return of leveraged money. Bitcoin cash (BCH), ethereu...

Arthur Hayes, Co-founder and CEO of BitMEX. Following a downturn in trading volumes after the coronavirus-triggered market panic in March liquidated a massive amount of trades on crypto derivatives platform BitMEX, the e...

Facebook's Calibra team claims a new method could spot in minutes the BFT vulnerabilities that took the community over a decade to discover

Bitcoin traded sideways Friday, staying around $7,500. However, it regained its March losses and is showing upward momentum.

China’s economy is the second-largest in the world and economists believe the country may someday bring a new global order and end the Western hemisphere’s financial rule. In 2020, various reports show that China’s...

Investment firm partners explain how to search for and evaluate crypto startups

In good news for contact tracing, attitudes to big tech companies are softening. But the shift may not be good for "privacy tech."

Poloniex had to halt its activity due to an unexpected issue with the GRIN/BTC trading pair

With companies closing, unemployment rising and investors spooked in the age of the pandemic, NLW speaks with Swan BTC co-founder Yan Pritzker about the experience of launching a startup in the hyper-competitive world of...

The next couple of days are critical as Bitcoin is showing some hesitation close above $7,500

As China rolls out its Blockchain-based Services Network (BSN), an insider describes the "breathtaking" scope of the initiative.

Pineapple and produce purveyor Dole wants to expand its use of blockchain to track goods from all three business divisions in just five years.

The number of addresses holding at least 0.1 BTC hits 3 M as retail investors hedge their savings

Blockchain-based solutions can add value in solving COVID-19 driven problems, says our columnist. But only if people choose to use them.

Coinbase's new service may outcompete Chainlink while AVA Labs is looking to fund DeFi development on its public testnet.

How do you make it so people actually want to download a contact tracing app?

Just recently, a report from Global Macro Investor (GMI) called “The Unfolding” claims that the world is experiencing the biggest economic event that hasn’t been seen in the last 150 years. GMI’s CEO Raoul Pal au...

We don't need to trade our privacy for a better response to the COVID-19 crisis. We need to embrace the full power of cryptography.

BTC could hit $9K this year and Purse might have a second life. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.

Crypto Briefs is your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptocurrency and blockchain-related news - investigating the stories flying under the radar of today's crypto news. Blockchain news Chinese companies have topped new gl...

The SEC has charged three California residents with defrauding investors of $1.8 million through an unregistered token sale.

Bitcoin's price crashed on March 12, which seemingly invalidated the safe haven hypothesis. But reality is far more complex than that