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…
Aave Reaches a New All-Time High as Cash…
DeFi token asset Aave (AAVE) has been on a bull run for weeks. Yesterday, the asset managed to reach a new all-time high of nearly $290. While the price has since cooled off to $255…
Janet Yellen Clarifies Her Stance on Bitcoin —…
Joe Biden’s pick to become the new U.S. Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, has clarified her stance on bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. This follows her remarks during a Senate hearing when she said that cryptocurrencies are mostly…
How compliance software detects fraud and money laundering…
The crypto industry has boomed over the past 12 months. While 2019 began with a total market cap of $200 billion, the explosion in Bitcoin’s value resulted in this figure surging fivefold as 2020 began…
Are DeFi Tokens Worth Buying in 2021? Experts…
Even though we are only a week in, 2021 has started off with a bang for the crypto world. Amid political chaos in the United States, crypto prices have risen significantly so far this year.…
A Decade Of Dollar-Denominated Debasement Debauchery
01/Nov/2008: A pseudonym of unknown nationality sent an email carrying word of Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer, electronic cash system with no trusted third party. The New York Times 02/Dec/2008: “U.S. Recession began last December, economists say” …
Did Bitcoin prove itself to be a reliable…
Without any doubt, the year 2020 was unlike any other year in the 21st century: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, global governments unstoppably printing money, “lockdowns” and “social distancing” becoming the new normal, protests against racial…
Pantera’s Paul Veradittakit’s 2021 Predictions
It has been an eventful year, to say the least. In terms of blockchain and crypto, we saw several key developments: the halving of Bitcoin, liquidity mining and the explosive growth of several decentralized finance…
Blockchain Bites: Google Goes Down, Nexus CEO and…
Happy Monday. Or maybe not so happy, if you were depending on Google for your job. Here are our top stories today…. Top shelf The Amazon of DeFi?That’s what Yearn Finance is rapidly becoming as…
Bitcoiners Weigh In On The U.S. Presidential Election
Bitcoin is inherently apolitical, in the sense that no third party or government can influence the critical aspects of how the network functions. But politicians can influence Bitcoin tangentially, by introducing regulations that make it…
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…
Cryptographers Are Always Going to Be ‘One Step…
While regulators are trying to restrict privacy in crypto, their efforts may be futile, according to privacy-centric protocol Monero’s maintainer, Riccardo “Fluffypony” Spagni. “The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) wants the same level of insight…
Money Reimagined: Memes Mean Money
Before we get into this week’s column, an announcement, one I’m super excited about. Today, we’re simultaneously launching a new podcast under the same name as this newsletter: CoinDesk’s Money Reimagined. Like the newsletter, it’s…
Blockchain Bites: Tether’s Dispute, Buterin’s Fix and 3…
Tether disputes allegations of market manipulation brought in court, Vitalik Buterin issues a proposal for Ethereum’s high gas fees and Voatz weighed in on whether a longstanding federal law over computer access is overly broad.…
DeFi in 2020: Is Decentralized Finance Really Ready…
2020 has been a dramatic and powerful year for the cryptocurrency space as a whole: Bitcoin’s crashes and surges, waves of new users, and changes in monetary policy seem to be paving the way forward…
Aave CEO Wants to Tokenize Tesla. Elon Musk…
Aave co-founder and CEO Stani Kulechov really wants Tesla to join the decentralized finance (DeFi) craze. Kulechov tweeted at Tesla CEO Elon Musk offering to tokenize Teslas as collateral in Aave (LEND) to borrow assets…
What’s the Deal With Yam Finance?
There are some decentralized finance projects that make flash loans; Yam Finance (YAM) was a DeFi project that made a flash appearance. YAM, which initially described itself as a “minimally viable monetary experiment,” launched on…
Blockchain Heroes Refuse to Accept ‘Old World’ Fiat…
Digital collectibles trading card series Blockchain Heroes launches this week, but won’t be purchasable with old school fiat or credit card payments. Instead trading card fans will only be able to buy packs using WAX…
Blockchain Bites: XRP Sales, INX IPO and Bitcoin…
China’s bitcoin miners are in a rut, Ripple shows signs of sales growth and INX scaled down its IPO vision. You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto…
Despite Stock Market Disaster Predictions, Bitcoin Markets Permeate…
A number of Wall Street veterans like Bear Traps Report author, Larry McDonald, think that markets might see some “disastrous and unimaginable” impacts in the near future. Another seasoned analyst, Larry Williams, believes the S&P…
Shapeshift Launches Self-Custody Trading App for Android and…
Self-custody crypto platform Shapeshift has launched a mobile trading app for iOS and android users to buy and sell digital assets such as Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) without trusting their private keys to a…
Crypto Long & Short: Why the Twitter Hack…
Every year has a handful of days that you’ll never forget. Sometimes for great reasons, sometimes for awful ones, and sometimes because a level of noise and action coalesces into an awareness that something big…
Blockchain Bites: Coinbase’s Untraditional Investor Day and the…
Coinbase will host its first investor day, New York State prosecutors won a jurisdictional dispute involving Bitfinex and a protocol arms race is unfolding in Latin America. Here’s the story: You’re reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup…
WEF’s Sheila Warren: Mass Adoption Depends on Bridging…
The World Economic Forum’s head of blockchain and data policy, Sheila Warren, says that people who have turned away, or been excluded, from traditional financial systems are the ones most likely to drive mass adoption. …
DeFi in Focus: 4 Leading Experts Discuss DeFi’s…
With the recent volatility in the values of certain DeFi governance tokens, DeFi has once again risen to the top of the cryptosphere’s global conversation: as excitement around some of these platforms grows, some analysts…
DeFi in Focus: Join 4 Leading Crypto Experts…
Several large-scale software exploitations and consequential thefts on DeFi platforms over the last several months have shown us that ‘trustless’ systems aren’t as ‘trustless’ the may seem. The Most Diverse Audience to Date at…
Sparrow Raises USD 3.5 Mil in Series a…
80% of US and European Institutional Investors Find Cryptocurrency Appealing: Survey A new survey of about 800 institutional investors in the U.S. and Europe shows strong cryptocurrency adoption, particularly bitcoin. About 80% of institutions said…
HaruBank Collaborates with BitGo to Ensure Security of…
Not So Private: 99% of Zcash and Dash Transactions Traceable, Says Chainalysis Chainalysis says it can track 99% of transactions involving Zcash, and almost all of Dash's - coins that both fancy themselves as private…
With Rising Interest in Plan B Services, River…
River Financial, a Bitcoin-based financial institution, has reported average monthly volume increases of 80 percent, a doubling of clients each month since January 2020 and has recently closed a $5.7 million seed round to continue…
2 in 1 – Learn How to Trade…
Leaked Pentagon War Game Shows Gen Z Using Bitcoin to Battle the Corrupt State The United States has been creating military simulations, otherwise known as ‘war games,’ for years now. In fact, the Pentagon and…
Famed Economist Speaks: ‘US Coronavirus Bailout Scam,’ American…
During the last few weeks, the world has been dealing with the coronavirus outbreak. These days, however, many of the world’s citizens are growing more concerned over the government’s reactions than the virus itself. Moreover,…