Cryptocurrency News

Investment platform CoinShares is urging its customers to lobby the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over impending cryptoasset regulations. In a letter to investors sent today, CoinShares has asked its customers to write emails and text messages to the UK regulator in support of one of its premiere products, exchange-traded …

Here’s what happened this week in Bitcoin.  Financial giant, Wells Fargo is developing a U.S. dollar-linked stablecoin that will run on the firm’s blockchain platform. Dubbed Wells Fargo Digital Cash, the tokenized dollar will be used in a pilot for internal settlement across the company’s business.  Snowden’s new book, …

Trading appears to be off to a positive start on Bakkt following its launch late yesterday. The same cannot be said for Bitcoin which at the moment is experiencing a lull in volume and volatility. Bakkt Bitcoin Volume to Increase Over Time Launching a major institutional investment product for a …

Bitcoin (BTC) donations are providing subsistence for thousands of people in Venezuela amid a crippling economic crisis. Bitcoin Donations Feeding Venezuela’s Poor and Hungry Tweeting on Sunday (September 22, 2019) Bitcoin Venezuela said it had used less than $500 in BTC donations to buy food and other essential items for …

Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov spoke at CoinDesk’s Invest: Asia 2019 conference in Singapore on current products and future developments for the Chainlink platform. A smart contract and API bridging service, Chainlink connects smart contract platforms–like decentralized finance products–to oracles containing real market data and event information. At Invest: Asia, Nazarov …

In June, Bitcoin (BTC) had hit its stride once again, seeing +5% days on top of +5% days. At the time, many traders thought this sort of price action would continue. And could you blame them? After 2018’s brutal bear market collapse, traders were thirsty to see green in their …

Mozilla announced earlier this month that its web browser, Firefox will block third-party trackers for everyone by default. And last week, the company announced another interesting product that could revolutionize the browser market. The new product dubbed Firefox Private Network will act like a virtual private network (VPN) although the …

Investors, builders, and HODLers all came together in Singapore last week for a two-day celebration of all things crypto… and CoinDesk was there. Our exclusive and extensive coverage of Invest: Asia 2019 features a myriad of major players including Ballet’s Bobby Lee and Su Zhu of Three Arrows Capital, alongside countless …

After briefly incurring a significant influx of buying pressure, Bitcoin (BTC) has once again lost its momentum and is now nearing its key psychological support level at $10,000, which has proven to be a strong support level for the cryptocurrency in recent times. In spite of this currently bearish price …

Baidu search trends in 2019 show Chinese bitcoin interest being driven largely by price action news. Meanwhile, ‘BTC’ has become a more popular search term than ‘bitcoin’ according to data from Google Trends. Chinese Bitcoin Interest is News Driven Tweeting on Friday trader and analyst Alex Krüger revealed spikes in …