Since May, bitcoin from Hamas’ wallets has been sent to Binance through three transactions, the latest of which happened as recently as June 6. We have a strong track record of assisting law enforcement agencies around the world,” Jung added. Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported bitcoin donations to Hamas surged during the latest […]
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At press time ether’s changing hands at $3,779.81, down 8.48% in the past 24 hours, according to CoinDesk 20. As for bitcoin, the balance of that cryptocurrency held on major exchanges is increasing again after dropping for more than a year, according to data from Glassnode. The price of scaling solution Polygon Network’s native token, […]
The power station operator said it will invest in a “portfolio” of greenhouse gas reduction projects to offset 100% of its miners’ carbon footprint. Greenidge, which is planning to go public through a merger, came under fire last month for its plans to expand its upstate New York bitcoin mining facility. The Greenidge case is […]
The expectation that Coinbase would list and begin trading the asset in the near future was likely one culprit for the FOMO. According to blockchain data from Bitinfocharts, one person owns 28.8% of all doge in circulation, and just 102 wallet holders own another 38.5%. According to CoinDesk Research, dogecoin’s correlation with bitcoin has fallen […]
Bitcoin tanked on Wednesday, hitting multi-month lows near $46,000. The episode shows how the growing trade in cryptocurrency options in recent months has become a force to reckon with for participants in the underlying spot market for bitcoin, with monthly expiries proving to be a catalyst for price volatility. For example, if a trader wants […]
If that happened, according to one analyst, the shares might quickly climb back toward the price of the underlying bitcoin – allowing traders to recapture the discount as a profit while still booking any gains from the cryptocurrency itself. They were subject to a lockup period of six months, but after that, they could then […]
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Bitcoin’s difficulty adjusted upward 21.53%, at 25.04 trillion, after dipping to 20.61 trillion in the last adjustment, according to this journalist’s Bitcoin node. Some of these miners have begun migrating machines to Sichuan for its incipient rainy season, which will supply them with gushes of cheap hydroelectricity. Per rules to coordinate the upgrade, at least […]
Ontier LLP, the law firm representing entrepreneur Craig Wright’s Tulip Trading Limited , has been given the green light by a London High Court to serve papers on 16 Bitcoin-related developers in a fight over funds from the defunct Mt. The wallet is connected to the hack that drained 800,000 BTC from the world’s then-most […]
Bitcoin dominance, the ratio of cryptocurrency’s value to the overall market cap of digital assets, is at the lowest level since April 2018. The leader in news and information on cryptocurrency, digital assets and the future of money, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict […]
Bitcoin remains in a state of calm, but not social media. MACD, which is the shortened form of “moving average convergence divergence,” is an indicator widely used to gauge trend strength and trend changes. The MACD has been a fairly reliable indicator of intermediate price action in the past. Bitcoin’s bull market has already slowed, […]
The cash transfer company plans to introduce bitcoin trades in 20,000 stores across 32 states by Q3, Coinme CEO Neil Bergquist told CoinDesk. According to Coin ATM Radar, fewer than 3,000 crypto kiosks and tellers allow users to sell their bitcoin in person, though nearly 17,000 locations facilitate buys. The leader in news and information […]
We’ve heard a tremendous amount of noise about them, from miners seeking to brand themselves as compliant to bitcoin critics assailing their fungibility. CoinDesk columnist Nic Carter is partner at Castle Island Ventures, a public blockchain-focused venture fund based in Cambridge, Mass. But do virgin coins, and more broadly, distinct miner-generated tiers of coins, actually […]
ETFs operate in a similar fashion to mutual funds, but can be bought and sold throughout the daily trading period on exchanges like stocks. Balchunas labeled the demand from investors as “insane.” Within the first two days of trading of Purpose Investment’s ETF, Canada’s first crypto ETF, the fund collected over $420 million in assets […]
