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GDA Capital: Cryptocurrency Mining on Blockchain Networks
This report from GDA Capital offers insight into the fundamentals of blockchain mining (with examples particularly pertinent to Bitcoin’s...
Coin Metrics: State of the Market December 2020
Coin Metrics' State of the Market provides an overview of the crypto asset markets, looking at spot, derivative and on-chain activity....
Crypto-Fund Assets Hit All-Time High With US Bitcoin Futures ETF on Cusp
Investors piled into crypto funds last week ahead of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) approval of the nation’s first...
Argo Blockchain’s Texas Mining Facility Will Propel Shares Higher, Analysts Say
Five Wall Street firms including Jefferies and Barclays initiated research coverage of Argo Blockchain (NASDAQ: ARBK) on Monday, with buy...
The Bitwise/ETF Trends 2021 Benchmark Survey of Financial Advisor Attitudes Toward Cryptoassets
Crypto fund manager Bitwise and financial media site ETF Trends joined forces for the third consecutive year to benchmark how financial...
GDA Capital: Security Token Offerings (STOs)
GDA Capital takes a look at the state of security token offerings (STOs), focusing on what fundamentally constitutes security tokens/STOs,...
Brazilians Have Acquired $4B in Cryptocurrencies in 2021, Central Bank Says
Brazilians acquired $496 million in cryptocurrencies in August and have already acquired $4.27 billion so far in 2021, the country’s...
Report: Indonesia leads global surge in interest in crypto
Amid the ongoing growth in cryptocurrency adoption worldwide, countries like Indonesia and Chile have seen a significant influx of public...
DappRadar: 2020 Dapp Industry Report
DappRadar looks at the evolution of the decentralized finance ecosystem in 2020, at the major events and trends of the year, as well as...
Lushsux: A decade of ass-whoopin’ and skullduggery in a single NFT
Lushsux’s street art is celebrated by Banksy and Beeple; his NFTs have made millions; and he has a landmark auction planned for a “major...
Crypto 2022: Policy Week
For years officialdom wanted nothing to do with the crypto space. Whatever bitcoiners said about changing the world, policymakers largely...
Shiba Inu eyes ‘much wow’ 90% breakout as SHIB price paints a textbook bull pattern
The Shiba Inu (SHIB) market is in a very strong bull market in 2021, and one major continuation pattern on its longer timeframe charts...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report January 2021
Kaiko’s January 2021 report looks at the month’s BTC and ETH volume and volatility surge, liquidity issues, DeFi token performance, and...
TokenInsight: 2020 Cryptocurrency Options Industry Report
This report by TokenInsight looks at the evolution of cryptocurrency options over 2020, highlighting their growing volumes and premiums,...
New York Attorney General Directs Two Crypto Lending Platforms to Cease Activities
New York Attorney General Letitia James ordered two crypto lending platforms to cease their activities, which were determined to be...
Local Businesses in New York Urge Governor to Impose Statewide Bitcoin Mining Moratorium
The governor of New York state, Kathy Hochul, has been urged by a group of local companies to deny business permits to bitcoin miners. The...
Arcane Research: Banking on Bitcoin – The State of Bitcoin As Collateral
Arcane Research takes a deep dive into the crypto lending industry, focusing on bitcoin’s emerging role as an ideal collateral asset,...
DappRadar: How to Value Hashmask NFTs
A timely primer from DappRadar, given the intensifying media and investor attention on NFTs, on how to value Hashmasks, a relatively new...
Bitcoin + Ether: An Investor’s Perspective
What are the different value propositions of bitcoin and ether? How do they behave in the market, and how does their infrastructure...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report February 2021
Kaiko’s monthly report for February looks at markets reaching all-time highs, institutions and new funds moving volumes, forced...
CryptoCompare: Digital Asset Management Review February 2021
CryptoCompare’s Digital Asset Management Review aims to provide an overview of the global digital asset investment products landscape,...
DappRadar: Dapp Industry Report February 2021
DappRadar’s latest report looks at the growth of decentralized applications (dapps) in February, looking at, among other things, Ethereum...
Stablecoins Like Tether Could Pose New Risks to Securities Markets, Warns Fitch
Stablecoins such as tether (USDT), now a significant investor in the $1.1 trillion commercial paper market, could introduce new risks into...
CoinDesk Quarterly Review 2021 Q1
Over 100+ slides, CoinDesk Research covers the main developments over Q1 2021 in crypto markets, covering Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi,...
Crypto News Roundup for Oct. 18, 2021
This episode is sponsored by Kava, Nexo.io and Market Intel by Chainalysis.Today’s Stories:Bitcoin Faces Resistance Above $62K After...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report March 2021
Kaiko’s latest monthly report looks back at the milestones and trends of one of the most consequential quarters in the history of crypto...
DappRadar: Dapp Industry Report Q1 2021
This quarterly review of the decentralized application (dapp) industry shows astonishing growth (over 600%), as NFT excitement proved that...
Does Bitcoin Have an Energy Problem?
Is Bitcoin bad for the environment? This CoinDesk Research report looks at the data behind the most common critiques and shows that, while...
Cryptocurrency Exchange Bakkt Falls in First Day of Trading After SPAC Deal
Cryptocurrency exchange Bakkt, which is majority-owned by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), was trading down 2.4% in its first day of...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report April 2021
Kaiko’s latest monthly report looks at the divergence between BTC and ETH, Coinbase’s stock exchange debut, stablecoin tether’s...
CrossTower: A Look Into the Valuable Properties of NFTs
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have soared in popularity in just the last few months, but questions abound regarding NFT valuations....
TokenInsight: 2021Q1 Crypto Futures & Options Market
This report by TokenInsight looks at the evolution of cryptocurrency futures & options over 2021 Q1, highlighting growing volumes and...
TokenInsight: 2021 Polkadot Ecosystem
This report by TokenInsight looks into the projects built on Polkadot’s ecosystem and the underpinning market data of the Polkadot...
More Than $200M Lost to Crypto Fraud in the UK This Year
Crypto fraud has accounted for losses of over £146 million ($200 million) in the U.K. this year, according to the City of London...
Kaiko Research: Monthly Market Report May 2021
Kaiko’s latest monthly report looks at crypto market volatility, record spot trading volumes, the rise of ETH, BTC's faltering "digital...
Cardano Subsidiary Emurgo in Partnership With Pan-African Venture Studio
Emurgo, the investment arm of Cardano, has partnered one of its subsidiaries with Adanian Labs, a pan-African venture studio that is...
EIP 1559: Ethereum's Fee Market Upgrade Explained
In July, Ethereum is expected to undergo a backwards-incompatible upgrade, also called a "hard fork." One of the most highly anticipated...
The Investor’s Perspective on the Bitcoin Taproot Upgrade
In June, Bitcoin miners signaled support for Taproot, a bundle of three upgrades to Bitcoin aimed at improving network security, privacy...
A New Crypto Bear Market Begins: CoinDesk Quarterly Review 2021 Q2
The second quarter of 2021 was characterized by price retracing in most crypto assets in the CoinDesk 20, signaling the early beginnings...
The First ‘Move-to-Earn’ NFT Game Just Raised $8.3M
Genopets, a Solana-based non-fungible token (NFT) “move-to-earn” game where players are rewarded for the steps they take in real life, has...
CoinFLEX AMM+ Arena: Bring Your Competitive Edge to the AMM Experience
PRESS RELEASE. CoinFLEX, a crypto futures exchange, is the first centralized exchange to launch a hybrid Automated Market Maker called...
Rosengren claims US CBDC will be separate from other digital assets
A digital currency may be coming to the US soon, but blockchain won’t play a crucial role in its development Former President of the...
Crypto tax rule will be decisive in South Korea’s upcoming election
South Korean presidential candidates have started calling for changes in the crypto tax rules to charm the younger generation The...
Where to buy Prince Floki Inu as PrinceFloki sees 1998% returns
The Prince Floki Inu token has registered huge gains in the past 14 hours and the token is trading at $0.0000013 at the time of writing....
BIT Mining Invests Another $11M in Ohio Crypto Mining Data Center
Cryptocurrency mining company BIT Mining (NYSE: BTCM) is investing a further $11 million in the Ohio site it is developing with Viking...
Where to buy Rabbit Finance as RABBIT gains by 254%
The Rabbit Finance token has seen a bull run in the past 24 hours and the token is trading at $0.13 at the time of writing. The RABBIT...
Where to buy Gooreo as the token rises by 130%
The Gooreo token has seen gains of 130% in the past 24 hours and the coin could possibly 2X if the bulls decide to extend the rally. The...
XRP price ‘unaffected’ by SEC case: Mike Novogratz
XRP's value rebounded off lows of $0.17 in January to reach highs near $2 despite negative sentiment around the SEC case The US Securities...
Where to buy Stacks as STX registers huge rally
The Stacks token is currently trading at $2.68 with 29% gains in a day. The STX coin could possibly rise by another 20-30% if the bulls...
Russia, Belarus Move to Introduce Special Electricity Tariffs for Crypto Miners
Authorities in Belarus and the Russian Federation are taking steps to separate cryptocurrency miners from other groups of power users and...
ProShares ETF to Start NYSE Trading on Tuesday: Report
ProShares will launch a bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) tomorrow, the New York Times reported, citing DealBook.The Securities...
Bitcoin Faces Resistance Above $62K After Record Weekly Close
Bitcoin ended Sunday (UTC) well above $61,000, confirming its highest weekly close on record and putting the lifetime price record of...
Indexed Finance ‘identifies’ attacker behind $16 million hack
The DeFi protocol was hacked on Thursday, with the attacker allegedly stealing $16 million Indexed Finance, a decentralised finance (DeFi)...
USDC Added to Hedera Hashgraph as Enterprise-Minded Network Eyes DeFi
USDC, the dollar-backed stablecoin used to grease the wheels of cryptocurrency trading, has made its way into the Hedera Hashgraph...
Grayscale Investments hints at possible Bitcoin ETF
The investment manager reportedly awaited SEC's approval for a futures-based Bitcoin ETF before filing an application for its GBTC fund...
All-time high weekly close — 5 things to watch in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin (BTC) simply refuses to die this week as a dip below $60,000 barely lasts an hour and bears are burned yet again. After a fairly...
Liquidator of Defunct South African Crypto Exchange Says He Found a 54 BTC Discrepancy in Ice3’s Accounts
A court-appointed liquidator, Dewald Breytenbach of National Liquidators, recently claimed that out of the 76 bitcoins that belonged to...
CME Sees Record Open Interest in Bitcoin Futures Ahead of ETF Debut
The amount of money locked in the bitcoin futures contracts on the global derivatives giant Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) surged to...
Central Bank of Brazil Reports Brazilians Have Bought More Than $4 Billion in Cryptocurrency This Year
Brazilians have brought over $4 billion of cryptocurrencies to the country, according to numbers from the Central Bank of Brazil. The...
As Bitcoin’s Price Spikes Pods of BTC Whales Begin to Shrink in Size
Recent metrics from a variety of analytical web portals show that the quantity of bitcoin whales has been shrinking in recent times. The...
Popular BTM Operator: Bitcoin of America Adds Ethereum to Its Bitcoin ATMs
PRESS RELEASE. Bitcoin of America is a popular virtual currency exchange, registered as a money services business with the United States...
‘Big Short’ Investor Michael Burry Not Shorting Bitcoin, Warns ‘Cryptocurrencies Are in a Bubble’
Hedge fund manager Michael Burry, famed for forecasting the 2008 financial crisis, has confirmed that he has not been shorting...
Rich Dad Poor Dad’s Robert Kiyosaki Sees ‘Very Bright’ Future for Bitcoin, Plans to Buy More BTC After Next Pullback
Robert Kiyosaki, the best-selling author of Rich Dad Poor Dad, now says bitcoin’s future is “very bright,” after...
Centric Swap leads ‘Uptober’ after a swift 1,000% gain. Here’s why it could go higher
In the past few weeks, Centric Swap (CNS), a dual-token model that gives stakers a fixed hourly yield that “stabilizes over time as it...
Top 5 cryptocurrencies to watch this week: BTC, ETH, SOL, MATIC, FTM
On Oct. 15, news that a Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) could start trading as early as next week sent Bitcoin price to $62,933...
Coinbase Publishes Proposal for Crypto Regulation Pushing 4 Core Recommendations
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has published its proposal for crypto regulation after “more than 75 meetings with stakeholders in...
The ‘Holding Billionaires Accountable’ Lie — Media, Big Tech Fact Checkers Mischaracterize Angst Toward Biden’s Tax Proposal
U.S. citizens and financial institutions are concerned about the Biden administration’s goals to get banks to report to the...
Next Bitcoin price crash will be ‘shallower’ than 80%, says Pantera Capital CEO
Bitcoin (BTC) market’s tendency to crash by over 80% after logging strong bull runs might come to an end. That is according to a new...
Valve Bans Games Built on Blockchain, NFTs, and Cryptocurrencies From Steam Gaming Platform
This past week, Valve, the parent company of the video game digital distribution service Steam updated its distribution onboarding...
Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele Taunts Economist Steve Hanke After Bitcoin’s Price Skyrockets
On October 15, the day bitcoin’s price surpassed the $60K per unit handle, Salvadoran president Nayib Bukele taunted the professor...
Impending Futures-Based Bitcoin ETFs May Boost Cash and Carry Yields
Several bitcoin futures-based exchange-traded funds (ETF) may debut in the U.S. in the coming weeks. These products may revive interest in...
Bitcoin Mining Is Decentralizing – Here’s Proof
There’s at least one industry where the United States now has China beat: bitcoin mining.After Beijing’s crackdown on crypto in September,...
Bitcoin’s Unknown Creator Satoshi Nakamoto Is Now the 20th Wealthiest Person on Earth
In mid-April the creator of the Bitcoin network, Satoshi Nakamoto entered the world’s top 20 richest billionaire list but after...
Grayscale Said Close to Filing to Convert Bitcoin Fund Into Spot ETF, CNBC Says
Grayscale Investments plans on applying to convert the world’s biggest bitcoin fund into a spot exchange-traded fund (ETF) early this...
BTC price eyes all-time high weekly close above $60K ahead of Bitcoin ETF turbulence
Bitcoin (BTC) faces a pivotal weekly close on Oct. 17 with bulls scrambling to squash final resistance before all-time highs. BTC/USD...
Hester Peirce Reclaims the ‘Wild West’ for the Crypto Industry
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this week’s “Long Reads Sunday,” NLW reads SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce’s...
Digital Asset Firm Bakkt to Go Public After Completing Merger — BKKT Shares Set to Trade on NYSE Monday
The digital asset company Bakkt Holdings has completed a merger with a firm called VPC Impact Acquisition Holdings and the combined...
President of Mexico Denies Having Interest in Adopting Bitcoin as Legal Tender
The President of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, denied having any interest in adopting cryptocurrencies as legal tender in the...
JMP Securities Sees Crypto Entering the Mainstream, Says Adoption Has Hit Escape Velocity
Investment banking and asset management firm JMP Securities says that “The crypto economy is entering the mainstream,”...
US Senator Lummis Thanks God for Bitcoin as Congress Discusses Raising Debt Ceiling
U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis said, “Thank God for bitcoin,” during her speech to the Senate about raising the U.S. debt...
Mark Cuban Won’t Invest in Bitcoin ETF, Prefers to Buy BTC Directly
The owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, has said “no” to investing in bitcoin-based exchange-traded funds...
Binance launches $1B BSC fund, BTC futures ETF approval could arrive soon, and Celsius raises $400M: Hodler’s Digest, Oct. 10-16
Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst)...
Economics Professor Warns ‘Cryptocurrencies May Contribute to Monetary and Financial Instability’
Cornell University’s professor of economics and former head of the IMF’s China division, Eswar Prasad, has warned that...
Jack Dorsey Says Square Is Considering Building a ‘Bitcoin Mining System Based on Custom Silicon’
Following the latest report from Cambridge University that shows a large percentage of the Bitcoin network’s hashrate resides in...
Why HODL for 48 hours? Because your altcoin wallet will thank you
It might seem that the volatility of digital assets’ prices and the lightning speed with which crypto markets move would mean that those...
Finance Redefined: Celsius raises $400M, and Rari’s 7.5K% yields, Oct. 11—15
Welcome to the latest edition of Cointelegraph’s decentralized finance (DeFi) newsletter. In a week where Rari Capital achieved the...
Bitcoin entering final stage of major bull trend, crypto analyst says
Trader and cryptocurrency analyst Alessio Rastani believes Bitcoin (BTC) is entering the final stage of the current bull market, which...
The Sure Thing, the Force Multiplier, and the Underdoge
Speaking of Bitcoin on the CoinDesk Podcast Network is brought to you by CrystalBlockchain.com.Why did a joke cryptocurrency with zero...
The Ongoing Effort to Free Ross — Ulbricht’s Clemency Petition Closes in on Half a Million Signatures
As the end of 2021 nears, Ross Ulbricht remains in prison as he continues to serve his draconian double-life prison sentence for creating...
How the Crypto Industry Thinks It Should Be Regulated
This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeOn this edition of “The Breakdown Weekly Recap,” NLW looks at two new policy...