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After a day of strong price gains that sent bitcoin (BTC) up by nearly 6% over the past 24 hours to breach the important USD 10,000 level, the options market may have even more good news in store for hopeful investors. A...

For the first time since October 2019, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell admitted to leveraging quantitative easing (QE) tactics. Powell explained on Friday, the central bank is now comfortable with leveraging QE on a ...

Bitcoin price broke the $10,000 barrier and rallied to $10,380 for the first time in 3 months.

An Iranian lawmaker wants his country's central bank to take bitcoin seriously.

Bitcoin's recent price dive may have been nothing more than the result of standard trading activities.

Crypto bank Avanti has raised an angel round from the University of Wyoming Foundation, Anthony Pompliano's Morgan Creek Digital and other investors.

Bitcoin's jump up and right back down is at least partially due to the crypto derivatives markets.

Donald Trump's recent spat with Twitter over the limits of free speech poses a question: Could decentralized media do better? It hasn't yet, as Civil and TruStory show, but Jack Dorsey wants to test some ideas.

Blockchain media startup Civil is shutting down after three years, with its team pivoting to building decentralized identity tools at parent firm ConsenSys.

A Seoul court granted the petition demanded by the prosecutors to freeze crypto wallets owned by the head of the Nth Room case.

Crypto-friendly travel booking platform Travala has reported booking growth as demand for travel returns despite continued coronavirus crisis and extended lockdowns in many places. Its booking revenue in May soared 205% ...

As protests mount in the U.S., we sit down with an outspoken pro-bitcoin, anti-surveillance human-rights advocate.

Dispersion of coins, order book data, and traditional customer growth metrics are three useful ways to compare cryptoassets, according to three crypto industry players. On Monday, during a panel at Messari's Mainnet even...

The Millennial generation will lead humanity to an era of new financial technology as they drive Bitcoin adoption through the next decade.

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 Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Bu...

Blockchain firms led the charge of fintech companies that relocated to Hong Kong in 2019.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), has put out a bounty for $5 million for the arrest and conviction of Venezuela’s superintendent of cryptocurrency. Joselit ...

With the price of bitcoin briefly breaking above $10,000, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back!

Bitcoin's price fell more than $800 in under five minutes on Tuesday, pushing the broader cryptocurrency market into the red.

The price of Bitcoin dropped 14% to $8,600 in less than 15 minutes to $8,600 in an intense long squeeze.

Square Crypto supports Bitcoin's lightning network development, crypto mining pool Poolin expands lending and ICE is going after the petro dollar's creator.

After staying above USD 10,000 for around half a day, bitcoin (BTC) dropped below this important level once again, in 10 minutes erasing all its gains in the past 24 hours. (Updated at 15:51 UTC: updates throughout the e...