This is an opinion editorial by Steven Hay, a writer, former trader and art dealer.The Ordinals controversy is still simmering and seems set to flare up again soon. Although Ordinals’ block space usage had been…
Bitcoin: A Global Port in a Market Storm?
Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and CoinDesk’s director of research. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a weekly newsletter…
The Multi Trillion-Dollar Stimulus Package: These Are the…
The coronavirus outbreak has caused considerable damage to the global economy and this week the U.S. is facing the onslaught of the scare. As Republicans and Democrats battle in congress over a 2020 stimulus plan,…
CoinDeal Token – a Wide Range of Earning…
Launched in the second quarter of 2019, CDL Token is a rapidly growing project, which has more and more to offer for its users. From the very beginning, CDL was not supposed to be an…
Telegram users can now use PolySwarm’s free malware…
PolySwarm, a crowd-sourced cyber threat detection platform, announced today that Telegram users and channel mods can now use a free tool called the Scanbot – to stay protected from malicious content. Messaging app Telegram is…
‘Buy Bitcoin’ Searches Skyrocket, Volumes Spike, Account Signups…
Exchange data and statistics from Google Trends, Twitter, and Baidu show that despite the recent price drop people are looking to buy bitcoin. During the week of the crypto market massacre that started on March…
Coronavirus Bailouts: US Banking Watchdogs Waive Hundreds of…
In 2019, cryptocurrency and blockchain businesses saw more regulation than any year prior. G20 finance ministers, central bank governors, and regulators cracked down hard on the bitcoin industry. However, during the covid-19 scare, U.S. authorities…
KYC and AML Compliance for Crypto Exchanges. Guide…
The beginning of 2020 was quite stressful for most cryptocurrency exchanges. On January 10, 2020, the 5th Anti Money Laundering (AML) Directive took effect. Some platforms announced their closure, while some threw all their strength…
What On-Chain Analytics Tell Us About Bitcoin Transactions…
Bitcoin (BTC) has been the most interesting asset over the last decade and on-chain analytics can prove such a statement. Since its inception, and until the first quarter of 2020, Bitcoin has increased over 1,000,000%…