Greenidge Generation Holdings Inc. has signed a hosting agreement with Core Scientific, Inc. in which Core Scientific will operate and host 6,914 Greenidge-owned bitcoin miners at its facilities in Dalton, GA and Calvert City, KY. "The…
Price Analysis April 13: BTC, ETH, XRP, BCH,…
Famed investor Mike Novogratz believes that additional crypto adoption and more drastic central bank actions will benefit Bitcoin. The Galaxy Digital CEO said that hedge funds and high-net worth individuals have been buying Bitcoin (BTC).…
Open Source PPE: Inside the Project Decentralizing Face…
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the United States federal government gave passing thought to its stockpile of respiratory masks. Respiratory masks, long downplayed by health and government officials as an effective precautionary measure, are now a…
Blockchain Bites: ‘Immunity Passports,’ a Darknet Pharmacist and…
You're reading Blockchain Bites, the daily roundup of the most pivotal stories in blockchain and crypto news, and why they're significant. You can subscribe to this and all of CoinDesk's newsletters here. Top Shelf PrivacyTechnologists building blockchain-based…
Bitcoin Vaults: Developer Bryan Bishop Releases Prototype for…
"People are not good at securing their keys," said Bryan Bishop, a longtime bitcoin developer. "To the extent that we can write software better and secure [bitcoin] better, that's a win. As CoinDesk previously reported,…
Crypto Long & Short: DeFi and Traditional Finance…
Decentralized finance (DeFi) and traditional finance are perhaps not as oil-and-water as most think. There are few topics as controversial in the crypto sector as decentralized finance. Many believe it is the future of finance…
Ross Ulbricht’s 9th Price Analysis Predicts Bitcoin Prices…
The founder of the Silk Road marketplace, Ross Ulbricht, has published another analysis that attempts to predict the price of bitcoin. Ulbricht started sharing his price examinations last December and he leveraged the patterns of…
Why UBS Analysts Expect a Strong Gold Reversal…
Gold prices continue to soar as expectations of the worst recession the world has ever seen grow by the day due to the last impact the coronavirus will have on the economy. However, UBS analysts…
This Unintended Side Effect Is Plaguing Bitcoin Cash…
Anticipation over the up and coming Bitcoin block reward halving continues to make headlines. But Bitcoin Cash, which forked from the original chain in the middle of 2017, already had its halving on Wednesday, April…