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Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
The world's longest running exchange will soon allow deposits and withdrawals made in GBP.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire calls for Congress to treat digital assets as their own asset class in testimony for Tuesday's Senate Banking hearing.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
In a Twitter AMA on Monday, Square Crypto made it clear that its focus is on building for bitcoin, not for Cash App.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
The developers behind decentralized marketplace OpenBazaar have released a mobile counterpart.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
Crypto finance solutions may be finding lower regulatory hurdles abroad as one of the most venerable exchanges takes to the islands.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
Nevada-based Prime Trust has launched a real-time settlement service for crypto and fiat transfers among clients.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
The DoD thinks blockchain can help authenticate its agents, secure interagency communication, and handle petabytes of data to predict attacks.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
Robert A. Cohen pursued actions against a number ICOs and crypto exchange platforms as Cyber Unit chief. He will resign in August.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
The NYCQ Fund is a tokenized venture fund with holdings in Coinbase, Bakkt, Nomics, and Tagomi.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
Bitcoin's bulls have reason to be optimistic despite the recent 33 percent price drop, as a long-term technical indicator has turned bullish.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
The European arm of Japan-based cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer has launched a bitcoin buying and selling service aimed to be easy to use.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
Facebook has acknowledged what many have been saying that regulatory issues may be an insurmountable barrier to its Libra project.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
With $3.25 million in new funding, Smart Valor says it's launching the first regulated bitcoin exchange in crypto-friendly Switzerland.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
Tether has a real-world use case Chinese importers of cheap goods in Russia use it to send millions home daily.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
Bitcoin wallet provider and blockchain explorer Blockchain just launched its first exchange platform, the PIT.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
Claiming it can handle many more transactions per second than existing blockchains, Solana has raised capital to ramp up development.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
The blockchain smartphone makers are working together to boost crypto adoption, with Pundi X's wallet being added to the Galaxy S10's options.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
Since the token launched in early July, more than 230,000 YouNow and XSplit users and content creators have been given 'Props.'

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
The U.S. Senate Banking Committee is about to hold its hearing on regulation for cryptocurrencies and blockchain. Here's how you can watch it.

Via Coindesk – 4:05 pm July 30, 2019
Mark Karpeles, former CEO of the early bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox, must face a class action lawsuit inPhiladelphia over the firm's 2014 collapse.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm July 28, 2019
From Silicon Valley to Washington, DC, Facebook's Libra is causing concern everywhere it turns up. This CoinDesk video explores what happened in the halls of power when the first major corporation joined the crypto party.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
Three witnesses including the self-defined Nakamoto's wife, biographer, and contractual overseer are called to testify.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
Facebook's CEO said it will spend however long it takes to get regulators on board before launching Libra.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
U.S. prosecutors have charged the head of a bitcoin escrow company with defrauding investors for $7 million.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
Bancor raised $153 million as one of the top initial coin offerings of 2017. With its BNT token trading near all-time lows, here's an update on the project.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
The Venezuelan president and his administration are said to be using proceeds from the airline industry and cryptocurrency to avoid sanctions.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
Justin Sun said he postponed the Buffett lunch due to kidney stones. But that didn't stop him from briefly mingling at a Tron party Thursday night.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
Grant Thornton audited more than $10 billion spread over 40 cryptocurrencies in more than 100 million addresses.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
The SEC has issued a no-action letter to Pocketful of Quarters PoQ, a gaming startup looking to issue tokens on ethereum.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
Monex Group, the Japanese financial services company that owns the Coincheck crypto exchange, has applied to join Facebook's Libra project.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
MIT fellow Alex Lipton claims Facebook borrowed the guts of its Libra project from a paper he co-authored last year.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
The bullish mood in the bitcoin market is at its weakest in five months, according to key technical indicator.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
Crypto investment app Abra is cutting back the crypto options for U.S. customers citing regulatory uncertainty and restrictions in the country.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
The IRS has begun contacting U.S. taxpayers, warning them about possible back taxes owed on their crypto holdings.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
The lightning network, seen as the future of bitcoin payments, is now a bit easier to monitor. This Wednesday, Lightning Labs released a new network analysis tool dubbed &8220Lndmon&8221 that bitcoin lightning network users can use to pull up data about the state of their node and the rest of the network. The offering features &8230

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
While post offices sometimes offer banking services, Croatian Post is looking at launching a nationwide cryptocurrency exchange service.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
Huawei's CEO said Even China is able to issue such currencies, why wait for Libra

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
Prosecutors have filed a complaint against the infamous crypto exchange BTC-e calling a haven for crime.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
CEO Alex Adelman says the average Lolli user has earned $26 in bitcoin rebates.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
Less than half of the donations made to the Binance Charity Foundation are accounted for on its website.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 28, 2019
Matthew Trudeau, chief strategy officer at crypto asset exchange ErisX, responds to a recent article on high-frequency trading by CoinDesk

Via Coindesk – 8:55 pm July 24, 2019
Online electronics and software retail giant Newegg has expanded bitcoin payments to nearly all of its served countries in partnership with BitPay.

Via Coindesk – 8:55 pm July 24, 2019
Refereum says a partnership with Fortnite competitor PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will reward players with the startup's RFR tokens.

Via Coindesk – 8:55 pm July 24, 2019
Compared with bitcoin, people in the U.S. don't trust Facebook's anticipated new stablecoin Libra, according to a new survey.

Via Coindesk – 8:55 pm July 24, 2019
A new report suggests that cloud containers are the next target for mining malware.

Via Coindesk – 8:55 pm July 24, 2019
Secretary Steven Mnuchin said, I will personally not be loaded up on bitcoin in 10 years.n

Via Coindesk – 8:55 pm July 24, 2019
Prominent Asian investment firm FBG Capital is backing Dapp.com's attempt to build an easy-to-use Dapp Store.

Via Coindesk – 12:35 pm July 24, 2019
The 6 named members of the state's Digital Currency Taskforce will assist in determining how to regulate, define, and use cryptocurrencies.

Via Coindesk – 12:35 pm July 24, 2019
If, as the saying goes, any publicity is good publicity, then Tuesday was a great day for Tron CEO Justin Sun.

Via Coindesk – 12:35 pm July 24, 2019
The New York Times is testing blockchain solutions to authenticate news photos in partnership with IBM Garage.

Via Coindesk – 12:35 pm July 24, 2019
The Senate Banking Committee has scheduled a hearing on cryptocurrency and blockchain regulatory frameworks for July 30.

Via Coindesk – 12:35 pm July 24, 2019
The Research and Innovation Division will include an in-house team that supervises cryptocurrencies.

Via Coindesk – 12:35 pm July 24, 2019
The wallet will maintain user's anonymity, but will also be recoverable.

Via Coindesk – 12:35 pm July 24, 2019
Facebook hasn't responded to a request by Switzerlands data privacy regulator for more details on Libra, despite the project being based in Geneva.

Via Coindesk – 12:35 pm July 24, 2019
BitFlyer Blockchain and Japanese business giantSumitomo Corporation will develop a blockchain app allowing users tosign rental contracts and more.

Via Coindesk – 12:35 pm July 24, 2019
Bitcoin is on the defensive for the fourth straight day and may be facing a further drop toward $9,050.

Via Coindesk – 12:35 pm July 24, 2019
We've seen the guns, booze and wild tweets. But now John McAfee is allegedly missing.

Via Coindesk – 12:35 pm July 24, 2019
While Facebook's Libra project was said to have 28 founding partners when unveiled, that isn't quite the case, says Visa CEO Alfred F. Kelly.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm July 23, 2019
Utah County is to pilot the mobile voting app from Voatz in its municipal primary election in August.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm July 23, 2019
Bitcoin fell below key support above $10,000 earlier today and could be facing a deeper drop, according to price and volume analysis.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm July 23, 2019
British regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, is being impersonated in an email promoting a cryptocurrency scam.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm July 23, 2019
Genesis Global Trading's lending business remains on a growth tear, especially its loans of dollars and stablecoins.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm July 23, 2019
OTC trader Dong Zhao's crypto lending startup has lined up $21 million in commitments for a BNB-like token sale.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm July 23, 2019
In this session of CoinDesk LIVE we'll explore the future of tokens as we move past the ICO Wild West.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 pm July 23, 2019
During his tenure Chairman Choi Jong-ku took a hard line against ICOs but enacted some favorable policies towards blockchain businesses.

Via Coindesk – 11:35 am July 23, 2019
Crypto investorMichael Terpin has won an early victory in his attempt to sueAT&038T over a SIM-swapping hack that lost a claimed $24 million.

Via Coindesk – 11:35 am July 23, 2019
German startup Fundament has obtained regulatory approval to sell $280 million-worth of a real estate-backed ethereum token to retail investors.

Via Coindesk – 11:35 am July 23, 2019
A Chinese news source said Sun's postponement of the lunch with Warren Buffett may not be for health reasons as was claimed earlier today.

Via Coindesk – 11:35 am July 23, 2019
The panel also encouraged some distributed ledger projects including a government-owned cryptocurrency.

Via Coindesk – 6:05 am July 23, 2019
Lawmakers at last weeks hearings took pains to distinguish Facebooks Libra from the broader crypto space, showing a new maturity in their approach.

Via Coindesk – 1:05 am July 23, 2019
Supposed New York residents and companies that used Bitfinex's trading platform were actually foreign entities, according to a new filing by the exchange's attorneys.

Via Coindesk – 1:05 am July 23, 2019
Tron founder Justin Sun's hotly-anticipated lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett has been postponed.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
The cadastral map will offer a chance for everyone to claim a stake in the moon before Jeff Bezos claims it.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
While some traders prefer to watch multiple indicators for buy signals on their charts, others prefer a simpler setup like the Awesome Oscillator.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
A site called US Veteran Token looks to be using goodwill toward military vets to scam investors. And one of our bios was stolen to promote it.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
Facebook's Libra is trying to simultaneously be pro-privacy and pro-KYC this forms an inherent contradiction.n

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
Sun will sit down with Buffett, Circle's Jeremy Allaire, and Yoni Assia, founder and CEO of eToro.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
The self-regulatory body for brokers and exchanges has quietly extended its deadline for member firms to report their crypto activity.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
Nearly2.7 trillion won US$2.3 billion have been lost to cryptocurrency crimes in the last two years, not including exchange hacks.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
Bitcoin ended its longest losing streak in seven months over the weekend, but the outlook still remains bearish.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
FairX, a crypto bank that planned to run on the Stellar network, ran out of steam.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
A parliamentary committee worries about Facebook holding financial details on its potentially billions of Libra users.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
The crypto exchange left a database open on the internet and leaked data for up to 300,000 users.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
Uganda's government is supporting a project using blockchain tech to fight the problem of counterfeit medicines.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
The AFOX platform will allow for the tokenization of media contracts and the selling of advertisements in the futures and options markets.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
Bakkt is scheduled to begin testing its bitcoin futures contracts Monday, more than six months after its originally planned launch date.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
Circle is moving the majority of its Poloniex exchange operations offshore, citing a lack of regulatory frameworks in the U.S.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
The $323 million in funding from crypto notables, including Ribbit Capital and Sequoia, brings Robinhood's valuation to $6.7 billion.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
Like a traditional DNS, the ethereum naming service will allow .eth names to propagate on the internet.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
Iran is officially recognizing bitcoin mining as an industry it will regulate and for which it will set electricity rates.

Via Coindesk – 11:05 pm July 22, 2019
The wallet has implications for ride-sharing, autonomous vehicles, and on-the-go payments, according to the company.

Via Coindesk – 3:05 pm July 20, 2019
He can try, argues Noelle Acheson but the risk he might succeed is outweighed by the benefits of the heightened conversation.

Via Coindesk – 3:05 pm July 20, 2019
After a $40 million Series B, buzzy crypto startup Anchorage is setting up a new subsidiary in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Via Coindesk – 12:30 am July 20, 2019
A bold maneuver in the dark nets a group of wannabe crypto thieves in Birmingham, U.K., very little.

Via Coindesk – 12:30 am July 20, 2019
Someone in South Korea appears to be trying to take advantage of Samsung's blockchain efforts by nabbing the Samsung Coin trademark.

Via Coindesk – 12:30 am July 20, 2019
Dmitri Vasilev, the former CEO of now-defunct crypto exchange WEX, has reportedly been arrested in Italy.

Via Coindesk – 12:30 am July 20, 2019
R3 has hired software sales pro Cathy Minter as chief revenue officer to grow the user base for its paid DLT product, Corda Enterprise.

Via Coindesk – 12:30 am July 20, 2019
KPMG is piloting a way to handle massive amounts of telecom data prior to the full implementation of 5G service. They're trying blockchain.

Via Coindesk – 12:30 am July 20, 2019
The former head of a ConsenSys-incubated startup filed paperwork to sue the venture studio and its founder, Joe Lubin.

Via Coindesk – 1:30 pm July 19, 2019
Scandal after scandal hasn't done Facebook any favors, says former CTFC advisor Jeff Bandman.