Privacy-focused cryptocurrency Zcash (ZEC) celebrated its first halving event on Nov. 18. The occasion was marked by the implementation of the Canopy upgrade, which establishes a development fund for the…
Read moreIt’s a lethargic Thursday across most markets, including bitcoin. Yet, on a longer-term view, the big growth story remains the Ethereum network’s DeFi movement, which continues to help drive ether’s…
Read moreAllen Farrington writes at Quillette, Areo and Merion West, as well as extensively on Medium, where he has several much longer essays on Bitcoin, finance, economics and related topics. His…
Read moreFrances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics. Her book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing,” explains how modern money creation and quantitative…
Read moreUshering in bitcoin’s third “halving,” by far the most highly awaited cryptocurrency event of the year, mining pool F2Pool rooted a mysterious message into the blockchain that will now reside…
Read moreAs the sun rises on the second day of Consensus: Distributed, CoinDesk TV will draw to a close. We kicked off our virtual event with a 24-hour non-stop live stream featuring more…
Read moreWe’re not even halfway through the first full day of Consensus: Distributed, and the world may never be the same. The most ambitious conference of its kind kicked off with…
Read moreBitcoin’s long-anticipated halving event took place Monday afternoon New York time. Now what? At the time it took place (19:23 UTC or 3:30 p.m. ET), bitcoin was trading below its…
Read moreCrypto’s biggest conference of the year, Consensus: Distributed, coincides with bitcoin’s third halving event, perhaps the most anticipated event within crypto this year. While a simple act of arithmetic, when…
Read moreWith bitcoin more than doubling in price since “Black Thursday” nearly two months ago, nearly 85% — or 25.79 million — of addresses holding the cryptocurrency are now “in the money,”…
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