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Bitmain
Mining Giant Bitmain Posts $500 Million Loss in IPO Financial Filing - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Wolfie Zhao
Mining hardware giant Bitmain lost about $500 million in the third quarter of 2018 amid an overall bearish market for cryptocurrency, CoinDesk has …
Bitcoin Exchange
Privacy Crypto Beam Gets Funding from 'Japanese LinkedIn' Recruit - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Yogita Khatri
Privacy-oriented cryptocurrency startup Beam has secured an undisclosed amount of funding from “Japan’s equivalent to LinkedIn” Recruit Co., …
Blockstream Releases Test Code for Bitcoin Tech Upgrade Schnorr - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Alyssa Hertig
Schnorr signatures, a code change likely to be one of the biggest coming upgrades to bitcoin, have now gone from a theoretical idea to real code …
Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Bullish Sentiment for Bitcoin As Long Bets Near 11-Month Highs - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Omkar Godbole
Bullish bets on bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by value, reached 11-month highs on Monday, according to the data from the cryptocurrency …
Social Media
You Can Now Send Bitcoin Tips Over Lightning on Twitter - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Alyssa Hertig
When “liking” your favorite tweet isn’t enough, you can now send small bitcoin transactions. Announced Saturday, the beta app Tippin has released a …
Blockchain
Will the Crypto Community Torch Jamie Dimon? - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Michael J Casey
Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The …
Bitcoin Mining
Bitmain Announces New, More Efficient 7nm Bitcoin Mining Chip - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Daniel Palmer
Bitmain Technologies has announced a new 7-nanometer bitcoin mining processor that it says offers new levels of energy efficiency. The new ASIC …
Commodities
Indonesia Passes Rules for Trading of Cryptocurrency Futures - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Yogita Khatri
An Indonesian financial watchdog has set out new regulations for crypto assets and their trading on futures exchanges in the country. The Commodity …
Market Capitalization
Bitcoin Price Passes $3,700 to Hit One-Month High - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Omkar Godbole
View Bitcoin jumped to one-month highs earlier today, validating the falling wedge breakout seen in the 4-hour chart on Friday. • The outlook as per the …
Ethereum
Craig Wright Claims to Be Satoshi in Critical Response to CFTC on Ethereum - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Yogita Khatri
NChain chief scientist Craig Wright has criticized ethereum to a top U.S. regulator, while again claiming to be bitcoin’s pseudonymous inventor, …
Technology
Ethereum Scaling Tech Monoplasma Wants to Let Dapps Broadcast Crypto - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Christine Kim
Blockchain data platform Streamr has officially released a new open-source ethereum scaling technology called Monoplasma. Inspired by a pre-existing …
Brock Pierce, Mark Karpeles and the War of Words Over Mt Gox's Future - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Nikhilesh De
Brock Pierce wants Mt. Gox creditors to receive 100 percent of whatever they’re owed – or so he says, anyway. Weeks after announcing Gox Rising – his …
Social Media
Ethereum Core Developer Quits Social Media Over 'Conflict of Interest' Attacks - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Christine Kim
Ethereum core developer Afri Schoedon is taking a step back from social media due to an onslaught of online criticism. Tweeting Sunday that he will …
Venture Capital
Crypto Securities Are Years Away from Mainstream, Technologists Say - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Christine Kim
Despite a growing mainstream interest in the use of crypto assets and blockchains as a way to replicate and represent securities, some of the use …
Forex
ConsenSys-Backed Rhombus Reveals New Products for Ethereum Developers - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Christine Kim
Rhombus has released new products designed to help further connect decentralized, ethereum-based blockchain applications to real-world data, the …
Cryptocurrency Exchanges
Rethink, Renew: ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees to Rebrand Crypto Exchange - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Christine Kim
Cryptocurrency exchange startup ShapeShift is planning a major rebrand this year. Announced at ETHDenver, an ethereum developer conference being held …
Market Trends
Mayer Multiples: The Metric That Helps Call Bitcoin Bubbles and Bottoms - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Sam Ouimet
Calling precise market tops and bottoms is next to impossible in the volatile cryptocurrency markets. That said, some traders believe identifying …
YouTube
Bitcoin Is... Bitcoin Just Is What? - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Pete Rizzo
Bitcoin Is… Bitcoin Just Is What?
Market Capitalization
Maker's MKR Crypto Outperforms in February with 37% Gains - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Sebastian Sinclair
The ethereum-based token maker (MKR) is outperforming the broader markets with a 37 percent gain so far in February. Ranked 16th by market …
Carnegie Mellon University
Metrics May Point to Ether Being Undervalued - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Chris Brookins
Christopher Brookins is the founder of Pugilist Ventures, a quantitative crypto fund founded out of Carnegie Mellon. ———— In 2018, the ethereum network …
Blockchain
Decentralized Finance Emerges as Banner Topic at Ethereum Denver Conference - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Christine Kim
“We always needs to ask, ‘Who are we building for?'” Kicking off the annual ethereum hackathon ETHDenver, Aave CEO Stani Kulechov shared an opening …
Apple
Apple Hints at Behind-the-Scenes Blockchain Work in New SEC Filing - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Stan Higgins
Apple has submitted what might seem like an arcane filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) – but the document contains tantalizing …
Investing
tZERO Is Live, But Volume Is Light and Its Token's Price Is Down Sharply - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Anna Baydakova
tZERO is off to a slow start. In the three weeks since the long-awaited launch of Overstock.com’s alternative trading system (ATS) for security …
NYSE Arca
NYSE Arca Filing Kicks Off Countdown for New Bitcoin ETF - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Nikhilesh De
The clock just started on the latest effort to launch a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF). The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) …
QuadrigaCX
What QuadrigaCX Says About Institutional Crypto Investment - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Noelle Acheson
Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and member of CoinDesk’s product team. The following article originally appeared in Institutional …
Apps
8 Illicit Crypto-Mining Windows Apps Removed From Microsoft Store - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Daniel Palmer
A number of apps in Microsoft’s app store have been found to be able to illicitly mine cryptocurrency. The eight apps, discovered by Symantec on Jan. …
Electronics
Luxembourg Passes Bill to Give Blockchain Securities Legal Status - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Daniel Palmer
The European nation of Luxembourg has just passed a bill providing a legal framework for securities issued over blockchains. According to a notice …
Market Capitalization
Bitcoin's Sideways Drift Has Shifted Price Recovery Target to $3.7K - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Omkar Godbole
View Bitcoin’s six-day-long consolidation near $3,600 has neutralized the bullish view put forward by a falling wedge breakout confirmed on Feb. 8. …
Nvidia
Nvidia Says Crypto Drop-Off Help Drive a 'Disappointing' Fourth Quarter - CoinDesk
coindesk.com - Daniel Palmer
U.S.-based graphics card maker Nvidia has said the downturn in sales to cryptocurrency miners drove a “disappointing” fourth quarter. In its latest …