Cryptocurrency News

Gold price reached a new all-time high and the same factors behind its rally could also push Bitcoin price higher.

A weak bitcoin market is not stopping Ethereum-powered DeFi growth.

A "medium-sized" South Korean crypto firm that built a facial mask factory as a response to the coronavirus pandemic has doubled down on its new line of business - and has won Amazon approval to start exporting its perso...

Hackers transferred roughly $12M from wallets connected to the Bitfinex breach, in which 120,000 Bitcoin was stolen in August 2016.

FX Choice, a forex and crypto trading company, is making new allegations that South African bitcoin investment company, Mirror Trading International (MTI) is a multi-level marketing scam. The company says it uncovered th...

An early Facebook product designer-turned angel investor discusses how social media has changed and whether it can be changed again for the better.

With a sly poke at Warren Buffet's comment that Bitcoin is "rat poison squared," c-lightning developers' latest release adds some key new Lightning features.

Four U.S. congressmen have asked the IRS to clarify how block rewards from proof-of-stake networks are taxed, to prevent taxpayers from owing more than they should.

The federal securities watchdog has taken an interest in DeFi's most basic building block.

Crypto exchange Taurus will offer the first crypto debit card backed by Dash in Latin America.

Perpetual swaps that track the price of ether (are coming to dYdX, the company announced Tuesday.

There seems to be a new trend spreading on the decentralized token trading platform Uniswap: creating new versions of hyped DeFi token ampleforth (AMPL). Originally launched as a type of stablecoin alternative in 2019, t...

The Chicago DeFi Alliance (CDA) just launched one of the first accelerator programs devoted entirely to DeFi crypto startups.

China's bitcoin miners are in a rut during a period of intense flooding, Ripple shows signs of sales growth and INX scaled down its IPO vision.

With investment opportunities in traditional markets drying up, bitcoin futures are drawing record interest. CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back for your bitcoin news roundup!

Bitfinex wants to recover Bitcoin stolen from it in 2016, even if that means paying to find the hackers responsible for the attack.

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The price of Chainlink has climbed to new heights as LINK continues to be one of the strongest cryptocurrency market performers of 2020.

Russians voted electronically, using blockchain tech, to keep Putin in power. Now, hackers may be selling the personal data of over a million of those voters.

Medalla, the final testnet before the anticipated launch of Ethereum 2.0 later this year, is now live, the Ethereum Foundation announced Tuesday.

What is being called the final multi-client testnet before Phase 0, or the Beacon Chain, of Ethereum (ETH) 2.0 has been launched. The team behind it calls it a success but doesn't seem to be completely satisfied with its...

As the Turkish lira hits record lows despite foreign reserve selling, Steve Hanke says that only a "gold-backed currency board" can save the economy.