Category: Crypto

Bitcoin is holding its bullish trend while heading into the historically strong month of February.

The top cryptocurrency picked up a bid below $7,000 on Jan. 3 and has been on an upward trajectory ever since, rising to three-month highs near $9,570 on Thursday, according to […]

Silvergate Bank is venturing even further into a field where few financial institutions dare to tiptoe.

The La Jolla, Calif., lender made a name for itself providing hard-to-come-by U.S.-dollar banking services for businesses that deal in […]

“You get to talk to lightning nodes with dollars.”

That’s how Zap CEO Jack Mallers described his lightning wallet’s new U.S. dollar clearing system in a phone interview with CoinDesk. Announced Thursday, the upgrade aims to address a number of hurdles faced by current…

Google recently suspended and removed bitcoin rewards game “Bitcoin Blast” from its Google Play app store for allegedly deceiving users, but it will not explain to the developers what exactly was deceptive about the game. 

On Jan. 20 […]

Trading volumes in bitcoin options listed on the Intercontinental Exchange’s Bakkt platform have completely dried up, even while CME’s options product is seeing strong interest. 

As per Bakkt’s data, not a single bitcoin options contract was traded last week on Bakkt […]

A former senior official with the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) believes the nation should join a global conversation about regulating stablecoins, with a particular focus on the Libra stablecoin.

Min Zhu, former deputy governor at the PBoC, said China should join other nations…

Standard Chartered has invested an undisclosed sum into Contour, a Corda-based blockchain trade platform, to streamline transaction settlement processes.

Contour, which rebranded from Voltron last week, recently tapped R3’s […]

A digital currency could see widespread adoption within the next few years, a new report by Deutsche Bank suggests.

Published Monday, the Deutsche Bank report said digital currencies, while only a decade old, have already been shown to have the “potential to […]

Bitcoin has erased much of the losses seen in the second half of the last week and looks set to revisit resistance near $8,800.

The number one cryptocurrency found bids near $8,270 during the Asian trading hours on Sunday and rose as high as $8,677 around 01:00 UTC Monday […]

Independent Reserve, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in Australia, is expanding to Singapore after an “overwhelmingly positive” response from the regulator.

Adrian Przelozny, CEO and founder of the Sydney-based exchange, announced […]

Hawaiian lawmakers have submitted a bill that allows banks to provide custody for digital assets.

SB2594, introduced on Jan. 18 with bipartisan backing, would make it legal for Hawaiian banks to hold “digital securities,” “virtual currencies,” “digital consumer assets” and other “open blockchain tokens” for their […]

Riccardo Spagni, better known as “Fluffypony,” discusses privacy and whether or not central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are just a fleeting thing. The Monero community leader speaks with CoinDesk’s Leigh Cuen in Davos, Switzerland.

“There’s less hype, but more talk,” said Spagni. “It’s kind of like one of those […]