The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…
Blockchain Bites: Canada Approves Bitcoin ETF, Options Markets…
Editor’s Note: Welcome to the year of the Ox. Blockchain Bites will not publish on President’s Day, Monday, Feb. 15. Three stories Bull market buzz The first bitcoin exchange-traded fund in North America has been…
First Mover: Bullish ($1 Million) Bitcoin Forecast as…
Editor’s Note: Happy Chinese Lunar New Year! First Mover will not publish on Monday, February 15, which is Presidents’ Day in the U.S. Cryptocurrency markets will be open, as they always are. Price Point Bitcoin…
First Mover: A Bullish ($1 Million) Bitcoin Forecast…
Editor’s Note: Happy Chinese Lunar New Year! First Mover will not publish on Monday, February 15, which is Presidents’ Day in the U.S. Cryptocurrency markets will be open, as they always are. Price Point Bitcoin…
In First Activation Meeting, Bitcoin Developers Discuss Paths…
Taproot was merged into Bitcoin Core in October 2020, leaving only the activation method for this highly-anticipated protocol upgrade focused on adding smart contract flexibility and more transactional privacy to Bitcoin. Last week, the Bitcoin…
First Mover: As Wall Street Fixates on Inflation…
Price Point Bitcoin (BTC) was lower, after an intraday price spike on Tuesday took the largest cryptocurrency to a new all-time high of $48,226.25, based CoinDesk 20 data. $50K in sight: “Bitcoin needs a…
First Mover: Federal Reserve Soup Now Includes Bitcoin,…
Bitcoin (BTC) was higher for a second day, pushing toward the upper end of the range between roughly $30,000 and $36,000 where it has traded for the past couple weeks. Ether (ETH), the second-biggest cryptocurrency,…
Federal Reserve Soup Now Includes Bitcoin, DeFi, Silver,…
Bitcoin (BTC) was higher for a second day, pushing toward the upper end of the range between roughly $30,000 and $36,000 where it has traded for the past couple weeks. Ether (ETH), the second-biggest cryptocurrency,…
First Mover: Silver Is the New GameStop as…
Bitcoin (BTC) quickly settled back into the past couple weeks’ range between roughly $30,000 and $36,000, after a short-lived price spike Friday when Elon Musk, the electric-vehicle and private-spaceflight entrepreneur who’s also reportedly the world’s…
Money Reimagined: Narratives Wall Street Can’t Control
Welcome to Money Reimagined. This was the week the internet finally defeated Wall Street – at least for a few days. The wild rally in GameStop’s stock, fueled by an army of Reddit retail day…
First Mover: Crypto Gawks at GameStop, Sees Shades…
Bitcoin’s (BTC) price was higher, though staying in a range over the past week of between roughly $30,000 and $34,000. “Signs of market exhaustion from the bulls are becoming more prevalent,” said Lennard Neo, head…
First Mover: Biden’s $1.9T Plan Shows ‘Blue Wave’…
(EDITOR’S NOTE: First Mover will not publish Monday, Jan. 18, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the U.S., a CoinDesk company holiday. The cryptocurrency market will be open, as it always is.) …
First Mover: Cryptocurrency Euphoria Hits Breaking Point as…
The recent euphoria in cryptocurrencies morphed into a severe sell-off, as bitcoin prices dove 12% on Monday, which would be the most for a single calendar day since March. Prices for the largest cryptocurrency had soared…
UK Judge Rejects US Extradition Requests for Julian…
On Monday, a British judge rejected the U.S. request to extradite the Australian editor, publisher, and activist Julian Assange. Following the U.K. judge’s decision, the current president of Mexico, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has offered…
Valid Points: A Year in Review by Your…
In less than 48 hours, 2020 will be behind us. It almost seems too big a task to recount all that has happened in this world, in this industry and in our own personal lives…
First Mover: XRP Plunges 20% as Traders Assess…
Bitcoin (BTC) was little changed, with prices appearing unable to hold levels above $24,000. “Bitcoin has moved vertically for a few weeks now and pullbacks will happen,” the Norwegian cryptocurrency-analysis firm Arcane Research wrote Tuesday in a…
Bitcoin’s Inception: A 340-Page Book Compiles All of…
Bitcoin’s mysterious creator, Satoshi Nakamoto, first appeared on the web when the software programmer (or programmers) published the Bitcoin white paper on Halloween 2008. After the paper published and the crypto network launched, the inventor…
What Pushed Bitcoin Over $20K, and What’s Next?
Well folks, the day has finally come: Bitcoin is past $20K. And not only that–at press time, Bitcoin was more than halfway towards reaching the $25,000 mark, and doesn’t appear to be slowing down anytime…
Bitcoin Dissidents: Those Who Need It Most
“You can say that Bitcoin’s headquarters is in Lagos now. Or in Minsk. Or Hong Kong.” The year 2020, shaped by the global pandemic and political and economic crises worldwide, made us reconsider many things.…
First Mover: Why Mohamed El-Erian Might Have Held…
Bitcoin was lower, staying in the past week’s range of roughly $18,500 to $19,700. Prices are up 167% year to date, having started off 2020 at around $7,160. “There is no doubt that $20,000 remains…
Why New Bitcoin Investors Shouldn’t Be Deterred By…
Bitcoin has recently caught fire with institutions, corporations, and hedge funds in 2020, as a defensive strategy to protect wealth against the non-stop money printing press that was turned on after Black Thursday. The store…
Bitcoin moves $500K around the globe every second,…
Blockstream’s Samson Mow wants to move the conversation away from Bitcoin’s (BTC) performance in transactions per second and toward its role in ushering in “a new financial paradigm,” that is, serving as a permissionless medium…
Previously Unpublished Emails of Satoshi Nakamoto Present a…
Newly discovered emails between Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, and the late Hal Finney deepen the mystery around the cryptocurrency’s origins. The three emails come from Bitcoin’s earliest days, when its future was uncertain. They…
Bitcoin Is the Biggest Big Short
Short-sellers, who make money when the price of a targeted financial instrument declines, aren’t always popular with corporate or government leaders. Those on the receiving end of contrarian bets against stocks or currencies tend to…
First Mover: Bitcoin’s Latest Rally Proving Irresistible as…
Bitcoin was lower, pausing a powerful rally that has seen the largest cryptocurrency jump 25% in October to the highest levels since June 2019. Traditional financial-media outlets like Bloomberg News were writing about it. Prices appeared to…
After PayPal & Paul Tudor Jones, Bitcoin Tops…
It has been a big week for Bitcoin. At press time Bitcoin has held levels above $12,000 since Wednesday, and appeared to be on track to break through the $13,000 resistance. Join your industry leaders…
After PayPal & Paul Tudor Jones, Bitcoin Tops…
It’s been a big week for Bitcoin. At press time Bitcoin has held levels above $12,000 since Wednesday, and appeared to be on track to break through the $13,000 resistance. Join your industry leaders at…
YouTube’s sleazy decline into scam promotion
Last weekend, I was watching a sports stream on YouTube. Talented, fearless athletes on the screen, a glass of wine in one hand and a purring cat under the other — you know, those perfect…
Meet the Yield Farmers Plowing Cryptocurrency’s Riskiest Trend
One is a Grammy Award-winning musician with lots of spare time. Another is a software engineer with nowhere to go during the pandemic. There’s also an editor for a data site and a fund manager…
Blockchain Bites: DeFi Meets NFTs, TSLA Beats Bitcoin…
Bitcoin is moving off exchanges, has been less volatile than TLSA and broke its record for longest streak trading above five figures. Also: Bitwise’s bitcoin fund has more than doubled in size, KuCoin was hacked…
Blockchain Bites: Airdrops, Record Volumes, $1B BTC on…
There is now more than $1 billion worth of bitcoin on Ethereum, record-setting transaction volume is boosting Ethereum miners’ revenue and VeChain joins China’s food safety watchdog to build track and trace capabilities. Top shelf…
Maria Bustillos on Tokenizing Journalism, the Death of…
Maria Bustillos, founding editor of the digital magazine Popula, is also one of the founding members of Brick House, an umbrella of independent publishers operating under a collectivist business model. An earlier supporter, and benefactor,…
Commentary: Fed Chair Jerome Powell Details Inflation Target…
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell explains the U.S. central bank’s economic approach, including how it will address its previous 2% inflation goal over the next decade. CoinDesk’s First Mover Editor, Bradley Keoun, has already laid…
Blockchain Bites: Major Acquisitions, Bitcoin Futures Liquidations and…
FTX acquired Blockfolio, ConsenSys acquired Quorum and police have seized the third-largest exchange in South Korea. And news broke the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has formalized new “accredited investor” rules. You’re reading Blockchain Bites,…
Blockchain Bites: Aave’s Advance, BitMEX’s Block, Turkey’s Bitcoin…
A branch of the Fed is looking at 30 blockchain networks to possibly support a “digital dollar,” Turkey is experiencing a bitcoin bull run and the Aave protocol has taken a leap forward for DeFi. You’re reading Blockchain…
First Mover: Anything-Goes Token Market Repudiates Rich-Only Venture…
Price point Bitcoin was up slightly at about $11,776 early Monday, rising along with European equities, stock futures, gold, copper and oil amid optimism over a coronavirus vaccine and treatments. The dollar weakened. The largest cryptocurrency…
Bitcoin Stalls, Ethereum 2.0 Outage, IRS Crypto Crackdown:…
Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. Top Stories This Week Pro traders unfazed by Bitcoin price stalling at $12,400, data shows…
Will Bitcoin’s Weekend Push Past $10k Break the…
The price of Bitcoin caught an unexpected bullish wave over the weekend: after sitting between $8,500 and $9,500 for around two months, the price of Bitcoin finally pushed over the $10,000 mark. The The abrupt…
News.Bitcoin.com Lead Writer Jamie Redman Named One of…
Lead Writer at News.Bitcoin.com, Jamie Redman has made Redeeem.com’s list of twelve influential go-to crypto bloggers. Redeeem says the list comprises names behind some of the most informative crypto news articles. In its citation, Redeeem…
Blockchain Bites: Bitmain’s $4B Valuation, Cambodia’s CBDC and…
Bitcoin is one of the only sources of funding available for the “pirate” science site, Sci-Hub, which is quietly engaged in war against copyrights. Despite Bitcoin’s ability to disintermediate money from politics, a new quantum…
Benjamin R. Tucker: Why I Am An Anarchist
Why am I an Anarchist? That is the question which the editor of the Twentieth Century has requested me to answer for his readers. I comply; but, to be frank, I find it a difficult…
As Political Unrest Unfolds, Bitcoin Tests $10k Again–Will…
Yesterday, the price of Bitcoin briefly passed over $10,000–shooting up from roughly $9,700 to around $10,120 over the course of several hours, in the first stage of what turned out to be a nearly perfect…
The Decentralized Web Has Plans, if Not Solutions,…
Last week President Donald Trump accused Twitter of stifling his speech after it accused him of spreading misinformation. In an escalating series of actions, Twitter took the unprecedented step of fact-checking the U.S. President and…
The Decentralized Web Has Plans, if Not Solutions,…
Last week President Donald Trump accused Twitter of stifling his speech after it accused him of spreading misinformation. In an escalating series of actions, Twitter took the unprecedented step of fact-checking the U.S. President and…
Investing in the Right Crypto Could Generate 7x…
Crypterium (CRPT), the namesake utility token of the award-winning fintech startup, is listed as one of the most valuable assets of the year 2020. The well-known crypto expert and editor of Palm Beach Research Group…
The Man Who Forecast a Currency Cold War
Many of the impacts of COVID-19 are easy to grasp. Every day we see the gutting news: the rising body count, the millions of unemployed, the makeshift morgues in public parks. We grieve for those…
Bitcoin Won as Store of Value in Coronavirus…
Bitcoin (BTC) has in fact functioned very well as a store of value before the coronavirus crisis, raw data suggests. In a Twitter discussion on May 1, Travis Kling, head of crypto hedge fund Ikigai,…