Crypto derivatives volume had a record month in May - and volatility contributes to fueling that growth.

Bitmain's ousted co-founder reportedly retook the company's office building while a protocol update made Bitcoin more resilient to state attacks.

Bloomberg thinks BTC could hit $20K. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.

Switzerland, 4th June 2020. Swiss-based crypto platform Eidoo is upgrading its native utility token into a governance token that will power a new cross-chain DAO.

Bloomberg analysts are the latest to jump on the bandwagon of experts expecting bitcoin to revisit its record high in 2020.

The most popular way to use bitcoin off-chain is on Ethereum, data shows.

On June 1, 2020, Bitcoin.com’s Roger Ver donated $10,000 in bitcoin cash to Casa de Amparo's children center due to the impact of Covid-19.

Bitcoin Core released a new software update Wednesday. Notably, the it includes experimental software to hedge against attacks from nation-states and ISPs.

Miners need to liquidate their holdings almost daily to fund the cost of mining.

Not so good news for fans of $10K BTC. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.

Long time trader John Bollinger has warned that bitcoin's flash rally to over $10,400 on Monday was fake, adding that losses might be on the way.

Ethereum Classic has largely followed Ethereum in lockstep. But as the larger chain goes toward Proof-of-Stake, ETC is sticking with Proof-of-Work.

The newly added support gives the Vietnamese market and other regions the ability to trade bitcoin cash for VNDT- Vietnam dong fiat.

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

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.

With the price of bitcoin briefly breaking above $10,000 before diving back down to the $9,000s, 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.

Another $800,000 worth of bitcoin (BTC) from the Bitfinex hack of four years ago has been moved to an unknown wallet.

The controversial Bitcoin SV cryptocurrency is winning in the crypto markets this year as developers and investors see its blockchain's technical differences as a good thing.

A big short squeeze on BitMEX last night has taken bitcoin passed a major psychological hurdle – some think it's the start of a breakout.

Switzerland's financial regulator, FINMA, has approved two Zurich-based banks to offer a range of cryptocurrency services, including trading and custody.

The economic turmoil in the U.S. and abroad is causing a number of well known investors like Michael Novogratz to focus on bitcoin and gold.

Bitcoin (BTC) has risen above $10,000 for the first time in almost a month as protests in U.S. cities continue to intensify.

Investors who sold bitcoin in May missed out on positive returns during 8 of the past 10 years, according to market data.

Hong Kong-listed SMIC plans to raise $2.8 billion via an initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, in hopes of advancing its chip making practices. The company is working with Canaan Creative to build a new crypto miner.

The bitcoin market has nothing on oil’s volatility in 2020.

Blockchain company Uquid has announced that the Uquid Shop is now live and accepting cryptos like bitcoin cash for payments.

With bitcoin and ether both headed up, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back with your bitcoin news roundup.

With interest rates for government debt near zero, or negative, the fixed income asset class has disappeared. The Bitcoin investment case just gets stronger.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has patented a "simplified" method of allowing blockchains to communicate with one another using domains.

CoinKite, maker of the Coldcard hardware wallet, has introduced two accessories that underscore the near-paranoia required to safely hold bitcoin.

Bitcoin has entered the historically bullish month of June on a positive note, but its recent gains look pale compared to that of ether (ETH), the second-largest cryptocurrency by market value.

ZRX, the native token for decentralized exchange tech provider 0x, was May’s best performing crypto asset, beating bitcoin by a big margin.

The UK government is seizing funds in dormant bank accounts worth approximately $185 million to fund its coronavirus relief efforts.

China has passed the country's long-awaited civil code which expands the scope of inheritance rights to include cryptocurrency, such as bitcoin. Inherited cryptocurrencies will be protected under the new law.

Bitcoin miners have increased in both number and hashpower as the network has already seen a 15-20 exahash per second (EH/s) increase.

With bitcoin and many traditional markets down on the day, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back!

Tether's USDt stablecoin has found itself being used more and more in the DeFi space with Aave labelling it as the fastest growing stablecoin

South Korea will start taxing profits from bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies next year, according to local media reports.

A new TV series tracking the story of Disney-linked blockchain firm Dragonchain was fully funded in cryptocurrency. It's scheduled to go live July 4 on Discovery Science.

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Gibraltar Stock Exchange Group's recently launched digital securities venue has created and dsitributed shares of adtech firm tribeOS.

The Twitter account of BSV-based social media platform Twetch was suspended Thursday without warning, said Twetch co-founder Josh Petty.

JPMorgan Chase has reportedly agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle a crypto class-action lawsuit.

Bitcoin is riding high as short sellers in the crypto derivatives market get squeezed out, triggering automatic buy orders.

Youtube channel “Barely Social” published a video called “Unmasking Satoshi Nakamoto,” which claims Adam Back could be Satoshi.

The Enigma mainnet was rebranded the Secret Network after an on-chain proposal by the community unanimously passed on May 17.

The Stellar Development Foundation has converted its existing $550,000 commitment into a loan to help SatoshiPay get through the next year.

Crypto exchange Coinbase is rolling out its new Tezos staking service to a very select group of western European countries.

What goes up, must come down. That saying just applied to the cryptocurrency named Theta, which recently became a topic of hot discussion due to a supposed Goog

Goldman talks down cryptocurrencies while Minecraft boots up tokenized assets. It's another episode of Markets Daily from CoinDesk!

The blockchain for busines platform VeChain will work to improve the traceability of clinical drugs going across the supply chain for Bayer China

Chainlink, the blockchain oracle provider, apparently has not only a devoted group of backers known as "LINK Marines," but a surprisingly committed crew of long-term investors. Here's why.

Players can now place blockchain assets in their Minecraft servers with Enjin's new plugin.

Ren, a decentralized finance protocol friendly to Ethereum that enables inter-blockchain liquidity, has announced the launch of the RenVM mainnet.

ID2020 was moving too fast to adopt unproven technology, including distributed ledgers, for immunity passes, said prominent researcher Elizabeth Renieris.

Traders were feeling good about bitcoin’s upward trend and pushed it over $9,100 Wednesday.

Polkadot launched the blockchain of blockchains while an IMF official said CBDCs could spur financial innovation.

While the Yuan weakens against the dollar, Coinbase makes an acquisition to grow its institutional trading infrastructure.

The creator of the web portal, Look Into Bitcoin, says a chart often referred to as ‘Hodl Waves’ shows a bull run could be imminent.

Google is teaming up with Theta Labs in a move meant to help the video delivery network onboard users through Google Cloud.

Nearly two years after EOS first launched, the so-called "ethereum killer" has been able to surmount some of the problems that have previously hamstrung it. But is that enough?

Since November 28, 2019, the Cashfusion protocol has helped facilitate 4,583 fusions to-date with roughly 40,564 bitcoin cash ($9.1M).

In the smart home era, we need to take privacy protection into our own hands, says the co-founder of IoTeX. Privacy laws won't help us.

Switzerland's government has rejected a $103 million bailout for local cryptocurrency companies battered by the coronavirus economy.

Remember that time you claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto? It's the inevitable return of CoinDesk's Markets Daily Bitcoin News Roundup.

With the recent rise of Bitcoin prices and the Bitcoin halvening, new entrants into the cryptocurrency field may wonder where they can self-custody their Bitcoin in the most secure way.

As interest in cryptocurrency grows among institutional investors, global investment banks, like Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase, are reexamining their views about bitcoin.

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A dump of 144 addresses, that are also represented in Craig Wright’s recent list, contained a verified message calling Wright a "fraud."

Zcash (ZEC) is due for its first mining reward halving later this year. The event could solve a major problem for the privacy-focused cryptocurrency.

On Monday, Bitcoin Cash (BCH) supporters were introduced to the formation of a Simple Ledger Protocol alliance called the SLP Foundation.

Binance is forced to "technically" support last week's hard fork of the Steem blockchain, according to the cryptocurrency exchange's CEO, Changpeng Zhao.

Noelle Acheson urges us to pay attention to trends and cycles in venture capital investment, especially what it can tell us about crypto market cycles.

Under the Breach claims a hacker is trying to sell customer information that stems from companies like Keepkey, Trezor, and Ledger.

Despite the crypto markets weekly losses of around 3-6%, many digital currency proponents are still optimistic.

The Bitcoin halving was like New Year's Eve with no time differences and everyone committed to a nonviolent revolution against financial tyranny, led by nobody and fought by anybody.

Russian lawmakers have proposed new laws that seek to ban the use of bitcoin (BTC) and other cryptocurrencies in the country, local media reported.

The following essay “The Nature and Origin of Money,” was written by the father of Austrian Economics, Carl Menger, and published in 1892.

On Wednesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called for a mining strategy throughout the oil-rich nation of Iran.

A small 30 BTC transaction ($282,000) from the stash has moved from the Bitfinex hacker’s original address to an unknown bitcoin address.

On May 21, 2020, the infamous Craig Wright submitted a list of blocks and bitcoin addresses to the Florida court.

How the myth-making around Satoshi reinforces what makes bitcoin unique in the landscape of global monies. Satoshi's amazing tech and psychology insights.

A well-known hedge fund manager has warned that governments may ban private gold ownership, making it illegal for people to own gold.

With more than 33% of the bitcoin hashrate lost, reports stemming from Sichuan show that bitcoin miners are dealing with electrical shortages

Binance and eosfinex are joining the oversight team for Equilibrium, the decentralized finance group behind the EOSDT stablecoin.

The Kin Foundation is seeking to move the kin cryptocurrency onto the Solana blockchain, according to a proposal shared with CoinDesk.

RenBTC, the latest implementation of bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain, quietly went live this week.

RenBTC, the latest implementation of bitcoin on the Ethereum blockchain, quietly went live this week.

Gox Rising has offered to buy out creditor claims from the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox. The Brock Pierce-led outfit will pay $800 per Gox Rising has offered to buy out creditor claims from the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox.

Bibox, a global bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchange, recently announced the launch of a new feature for users, the Trading Bot Zone. The Trading Bot Zone

Bitcoin fell for a second day as sentiment grew bearish, though some traders say they’ll buy the dip.

The Kin Foundation is offering a peek under the hood of its operations with a new transparency report published with Messari.

Blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis has dismissed claims ISIS is holding a $300 million bitcoin (BTC) war chest.

Spoooky! BTC saw a ghost yesterday and scared the markets. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast.

Bitcoin.com’s Exchange announced that ESH will now be listed so users can trade or obtain the token to participate in the Ghost airdrop.

Crypto exchange Bittrex has said it will return all the tokens confiscated from Steem community members, and then taken back, during yesterday's hard fork.

Here's why Kyber Network's KNC is this season's hottest token across decentralized cryptocurrency markets.

The current cryptocurrency market is certainly a vast one, to say the least. With all sorts of coins being created by different people from playful fans of inte

The market jumped all over the shop when rumor spread that Bitcoin's mysterious founder, Satoshi Nakamoto, was moving early-mined bitcoin around.

The EOS developer house Block.one is taking a more active role in the ecosystem's governance, and it's issued a set of criteria it will use for voting.

On May 20, 2020, 50 bitcoin mined on February 9, 2009, was moved from the original address to a new address.

Downward bitcoin prices could impact stakeholders more than ever before, including derivatives traders and miners.

Bitcoin tumbled 6% in the span of an hour on Wednesday, bringing a quick end to a four-day rally.

Big Tech firms outlined the dangers of letting the US fall behind in strategic blockchain initiatives while a former Coinbase lawyer is moving to a top government seat.

Bitcoin's halving busted a lot of miners while Samsung adds blockchain e-gaming. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast.

A new Steem hard fork seeks to remove dissenting community members from the blockchain by seizing their tokens – worth over $6 million.

Bitcoin (BTC) miners earned 44% more in transaction fees in the nine days since the halving than they did for the whole of April. If this continues miners will have earned three times as much from transaction fees as they did during previous months.

With staking and a surge of demand for stablecoins, Ethereum has everything it needs to become a viable store-of-value network, like bitcoin.

Tokensoft, a technology platform for enterprises and financial institutions, has used Ethereum's blockchain tech to distribute equity to investors in its $4 million funding round.

Blockchain e-sports streaming platform THETA.tv will soon be available on Samsung's flagship Galaxy S20 smartphones shipped to the U.S.

A new platform dubbed Superhero will allow users such as artists and musicians to boost exposure to their content and receive tips in the form of tokens – all while keeping their personal data private.

Keep Network has released a breakdown of the issues that forced the shutdown of its bitcoin-backed Ethereum token, tBTC, just two days after it launched.

The Bitcoin network just fine-tuned a key parameter to coax back miners who quit after last week's halving hammered their profits.

Customers with at least five purchases, roughly 60% of them buy bitcoin first but only 24% remain exclusively loyal to the digital asset

Ether is outperforming bitcoin in 2020 - but has lower liquidity and different technical dynamics than the world’s largest cryptocurrency.

According to the firm, Grayscale Investments bought up to 33% of all the newly minted bitcoin (BTC) over the last three months.

According to the firm, Grayscale Investments bought up to 33% of all the newly minted bitcoin (BTC) over the last three months.

The Puell Multiple shows bitcoin may still be undervalued.

Harmony announced Tuesday that its mainnet has incorporated staking, allowing users to earn ONE tokens for locking in their current holdings.

The researchers' survey shows that since the post-Covid-19 economy is setting in, trust in bitcoin has grown 29% in the past three years.

What people fail to consider when they criticize Bitcoin's electricity footprint, according to our columnist.

The former JPMorgan blockchain leads at Kadena have inked a deal to use Chainlink’s oracles for pricing crypto assets on Kadena's high-throughput network.

The new lawsuit alleges that Block.one purposefully misled investors to believe EOS would be decentralized in its $4 billion token sale.

Bitcoin's price uptrend could gather pace following the confirmation of the golden crossover in the next few days, analysts say.

Developers of ether mixer Tornado Cash have destroyed their admin keys, turning the privacy tool into permissionless code.

Tether, the oldest and largest stablecoin tied to the U.S dollar, has fallen below par value for the longest stretch since bitcoin dropped to 12-month lows in March.

The headline feature of the new Uniswap will be the ability for anyone to create any token pair they want, so long as it exists on Ethereum.

Thesis has put a pause on deposits into tBTC, its new platform meant to get bitcoin into Ethereum's decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem.

BTC can't seem to break $10K while JK Rowling gets an earful. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.

Bitcoin's recent price rally and industry optimism contrast with the downbeat tone in the U.S. stock market. Even Visa's CEO says digital currencies could be "additive to the payments ecosystem."

Bitcoin's attempt to scale the psychological resistance of $10,000 looks to have stalled again, even as the price of gold soars to new highs.

Despite launching with considerable fanfare in early 2019, grin, the first cryptocurrency to test privacy protocol MimbleWimble, is showing no signs of life.

Synthetix is putting over $40,000 in crypto on the line to entice users to try out the faster beta of its decentralized exchange (DEX).

There is evidence that the S2F model may not be reliable and two critics who have explained publicly why S2F may be bunk.

On May 11, the Bitcoin network experienced its third block reward halving, which had chopped the 12.5 BTC reward to 6.25 coins following the event. It’s

Harry Potter author JK Rowling has become inundated with bitcoin insight and cryptocurrency explanations when she tweeted asking someone to explain to her what bitcoin was. Tesla CEO Elon Musk was among those trying to explain bitcoin to her.

Bitcoin (BTC) is a compelling investment case "for patient, long-term investors" willing to spend the time to understand the top cryptocurrency, a new

It took only three (3) hours for Crypto Twitter to scare JK Rowling away from bitcoin.

Global stock markets did not fare well for the week. “Outside events are much more likely to impact bitcoin’s price, like a possible crash of the economy because of COVID,” said one trader.

Tendermint and Cosmos developer (and part-time pirate) Sunny Aggarwal is the latest intriguing soul to take the CoinDesk Confesssional questionnaire.

The MCO Visa Card, a crypto-to-fiat payments card, is now shipping to 31 European countries in a major program expansion by Crypto.com

BTC hovers at $9K while Australia knocks out Bitcoin sales. This is CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.

Today, at precisely 9 a.m. ET on May 15, 2020, the Bitcoin Cash network completed another upgrade adding new features to the blockchain.

Visa has filed for a cryptocurrency system patent that is meant to replace physical currency. The system, which utilizes both central banks and commercial banks, leverages a private blockchain to improve the payment ecosystem.

Neobanking service provider Bitwala on Thursday introduced a new account that offers its 80,000 European customers passive bitcoin (BTC) income.

Following the third bitcoin halving on May 11, 2020, there’s been a big shift in mining pool distribution, as far as hashrate is concerned.

As the COVID-19 crisis grows, some industries will recover quickly, but some won’t recover at all. In this episode we help you understand which is which.

Ether whales are headed to bitcoin while Reddit rolls out Community Points. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily Podcast.

Polymath is soon to launch the first test network for a dedicated blockchain designed to bring new safeguards for financial institutions working with security tokens.

While bitcoin is fast reversing its pre-halving price drop, hash-rate data suggests miners are still leaving the network.

Reddit is expanding a trial program designed to let users reward each other for their contributions, using the Ethereum blockchain.

Data from Glassnode’s Bitcoin Exchange Net-Flow statistics show that close to 24,000 BTC has been withdrawn since May 11.

Consensus: Distributed saw conversations on the constitutionality of FATF's Travel Rule and DeFi's importance to financial access in the U.S.

The dynamics in the crypto markets might shift as miners bow out. “I think some of the miners might be in trouble. They just took a 50% pay cut overnight with prices remaining where they are,” said one analyst.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun tells Consensus: Distributed why he chose a $2.3T NY Times headline for Bitcoin's last block before the halving.

The CEO of Tezos reveals her biggest fear, and what inspires her most, in an all new CoinDesk Confessional.

The 7-day average of the number of unique addresses holding 10,000 ethers or more fell to 1,050 on Tuesday.

On May 11, 2020, the Bitcoin network completed it’s third block reward halving and the network seems to be chugging along just fine.

Bitcoin is the reason why we're writing these words and you’re reading them now. The first crypto still dominates the industry.

Bitcoin looks stable near $9,000 amid rising speculation the U.S. could ultimately adopt negative interest rates.

Cryptocurrency hedge funds' assets under management have been increasing significantly, rising to more than $2 billion at the end of last year, according to a recent survey.

Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin: “I defer to the client devs on timelines and if they are now saying ‘Q3’ more broadly then I believe them.”

R3, the company behind the Corda blockchain, is edging ever closer to Ethereum, with news of a partnership with enterprise software startup Kaleido.

With the third Bitcoin halving complete, Markets Daily is back with your bitcoin news roundup for look at price movements, problematic privacy and more...

On May 15, the Bitcoin Cash (BCH) blockchain will be upgraded and there will be at least three new features added to the chain.

JPMorgan Chase has reportedly started providing banking services to bitcoin businesses, with the first two clients being Coinbase and Gemini exchanges. JPMorgan also recently recommended having cryptocurrency in an investment portfolio.

Bringing big business to Ethereum's public blockchain is key to reaching "world computer" status, and Besu may be the project to do it.

Chainlink may be solving part of the problem that first drove Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s interest in decentralized applications.

About a third of Bitcoin (BTC) mining firms may already be switching off their machines as the business becomes unprofitable due to a reduction in mining

The Bitcoin blockchain has experienced its third block reward halving on May 11, 2020, at approximately 3:21 p.m EST, even though quite a few countdown

Bitcoin's third halving, a once-every-four-years occurrence and the most anticipated event this year in the cryptocurrency industry, has finally happened.

The average transaction cost for Bitcoin (BTC) soared 414% in the days before the halving, peaking at $3.19 on May 8, from as low as $0.62 on April 26.

Zcash-inspired privacy tools are coming to Bitcoin's Lightning Network and many other blockchain ecosystems, creating a shared cryptocurrency privacy layer.

Vitalik Buterin says the much-delayed Ethereum 2.0 is still on track to launch sometime in July, bringing proof of stake and scalability to the network.

Crypto.com has gathered a record-breaking $360 million worth of insurance to cover the potential loss of cryptocurrencies like bitcoin stored in special offline vaults.

Gavin Wood, an original co-founder of Ethereum, took a few good swipes at the second-largest cryptocurrency he helped create at Consensus: Distributed.

"We’re watching the birthing of a store of value, and whether that succeeds or not only time will tell," he told CNBC.

Bitcoin's third halving, Consensus:Distributed and a pullback after the bulls make another run at $10,000. It's Markets Daily from CoinDesk.

The European Central Bank is looking into what a retail central bank digital currency form of the euro might look like, executive member Yves Mersch said.

From Vitalik to Akon, from Larry Summers to Spencer Dinwiddie, here are the influential speakers and vital conversations you can watch on CoinDesk TV, part of this year's free, virtual, real-time Consensus.

In a touch more than 24-hours time, the third Bitcoin Halving will take place on May 12, 2020, on or around 9:50 p.m. ET.

Other U.S. exchanges, including Kraken, reported all systems as operational during the weekend price crash.

Bitmain reportedly pulled in $300 million in revenue during Q1 2020 and Ebang's recent IPO prospectus shows a $41 million deficit.

A court in Shanghai, China, has reportedly ruled that bitcoin is an asset protected by Chinese law in a case that has dragged on for years. The case involves a theft of two different cryptocurrencies, one being bitcoin, from an American.

Filmmaker Torsten Hoffmann has launched the documentary “Cryptopia: Bitcoin, Blockchains and the Future of the Internet.”

Bitmain remains at the center of the crypto economy, but, in China, "mining avengers" are racing to catch up.

Why beauty mogul Michelle Phan says her 8.9 million YouTube subscribers are ready for bitcoin: "They want to know how to protect their purchasing power."

Casual investors are hearing about bitcoin more often while professionals are taking advantage of a growing derivatives market.

Open interest for CME bitcoin futures made a new all-time high of just under $500 million on Friday. CME’s bitcoin futures market are growing faster than nearly every other bitcoin futures market on a percentage and real growth basis.

Nearly 85% — or 25.79 million — of addresses holding bitcoin are now “in-the-money.”

At Ethereal Summit on Thursday, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao presented some unusual arguments for why he won't disclose where his company's headquarters is.

Paul Tudor Jones discussed his opinion about bitcoin on Thursday saying it reminds him of the part gold played back in the ‘70s.

Developers can now access the tools needed to manage a full-scale Enterprise Ethereum network through Microsoft's Azure marketplace.

Open contracts on bitcoin options rose to record highs on Thursday as the cryptocurrency’s price rose into five figures. It's not necessarily a bullish sign, though.

As the bitcoin halving approaches, independent traders like "Young Tilopa," "Luis J. Sarmiento" and "Brian" look for an edge. Ben Munster meets them.

The Indian cryptocurrency industry has been growing rapidly despite the nationwide lockdown and the coronavirus crisis. Two new cryptocurrency trading platforms are launching in India.

On May 7, 2020, the price of a single bitcoin crossed $10,000 per unit in USD value as the network only has four days until the halving.

Bitcoin's price has broken the $10,000 barrier just days before its next halving.

On May 7, the decentralized finance (defi) startup General Protocols revealed the team has raised over $1 million from investors.