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Expedia's Connie Chung, senior payments product manager, speaks to CoinDesk about the travel giant's bitcoin payment integration.

Spondoolies CEO Guy Corem talks to CoinDesk about two of the firm's upcoming mining chips and its novel «blockchain lottery» device.

Abra CEO Bill Barhydt talks to CoinDesk about the bitcoin payments startup's long - awaited global rollout next month.

Back in September 2015, some of the researchers spoke to CoinDesk about the «inherent problems» in blockchain design.

D+H executive Moti Porath tells CoinDesk about his firm's recent blockchain integration with its global payments hub.

Josh Harris, DirectPool's Media Director, spoke with CoinDesk about the motivations for starting DirectPool, and explained that the idea was conceived as a response to mining pools like Ghash.io, which recently gained nearly 50 % of the network's hashpower:

Pelle Braendgaard talks to CoinDesk about his company's plans and the challenges bitcoin faces in the developing world.

Consulting giant Deloitte chats to CoinDesk about how and why it started accepting bitcoin in its Toronto office complex.

Petar Zivkovski, director of operations at Whaleclub, told CoinDesk about how trader sentiment changed after bitcoin's sharp rise pushed it above $ 440 on 20th April.

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The market has been red hot, with firms raising about $ 8.7 billion, according to CoinDesk, which tracks the offerings.

That's the finding of a survey of more than 3,000 people conducted in mid-January by CoinDesk, a New York - based provider of price data, information and news about digital tokens.

Blankfein's Bitcoin comments come at a time when some Goldman Sachs clients have signaled interest in the cryptocurrency, which has surged 340 % since the start of the year — a single unit is now worth about $ 4,300 according to CoinDesk.

The trading hype has persisted despite a massive hack of Tokyo - based exchange Coincheck in January that resulted in losses of about 58 billion yen ($ 533 million) worth of virtual currency, according to Coindesk.

On Wednesday, a startup called Brave launched a coin offering to fund a new web browser and raised the equivalent of $ 35 million in about 30 seconds, according to CoinDesk.

Bitcoin itself fell about 2 percent to $ 18,718, according to the CoinDesk bitcoin price index.

In the second quarter, they reached an average of about 291,000 per day for bitcoin and nearly double that when other major cryptocurrencies are included, from about 60,000 per day in 2013, according to researcher CoinDesk.

As previously reported by CoinDesk, a trio of lawmakers - Senator Orrin Hatch, Representative Kevin Brady and Representative Vern Buchanan - requested information about the IRS's overall strategy toward digital currencies in a letter dated 17th May.

Additionally, there are concerns about the governance of the tokens, as detailed in the ICO white paper, and the voting power of the TON Foundation set up to manage the reserve tokens kept by Telegram.MIT professor Christian Catalini previously told CoinDesk that the company should clarify details of its plans, adding that: «Investors should evaluate the capacity of any team to execute on their plan and vision, as well as the protections they have if things go wrong.»

As I said to Marc Hochstein, Coindesk's editor in chief, this morning when asked me that very question about Ripple and Ether,

One bitcoin was worth about $ 16,200 on Wednesday, according to CoinDesk, which values bitcoin based on data from four exchanges.

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The CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index dropped from about $ 585 on Wednesday to as low as $ 477 on Thursday, though by Friday Bitcoin prices were hovering around the $ 500 level.

CoinDesk BlockCypher's CEO speaks out about the dysfunction in bitcoin's community and why she believes new tech could help save it.

Because control of the network is pegged to this distribution, as well as an elected council that has the power to veto certain changes, ethereum developer Vlad Zamfir told CoinDesk that he has his suspicions about how the idea will work in practice.

CoinDesk's Pete Rizzo talks to Coinbase CEO and founder Brian Armstrong about the firm's plans and changes in the wider blockchain arena.

The decision comes only a few months after CoinDesk reported that Kik was thinking about moving its crypto token fully off ethereum and onto stellar due to high transaction fees and slow confirmation times plaguing the ethereum network.

According to CoinDesk data, the price of ether is trading at $ 588.32, a decline of about 4 percent since the open.

CoinDesk Editor Pete Rizzo puts forth an alternate way to think about crypto valuations — one that might poke holes in critics» bubble talk.

CoinDesk speaks to Saxo Bank CEO and co-founder Lars Seier Christensen about his support for bitcoin.

You can read more details about such concerns in this coindesk article.

Since first posting the terms of its convertible bitcoin loan online, DigitalX CEO Leigh Travers told CoinDesk he's been contacted by several «investor relations departments of major blockchain companies» with questions about how they can do the same.

CoinDesk speaks to MoneyGram executive vice president Peter Ohser about why he believes bitcoin will fail to disrupt the remittance market.

Omise decided to conduct an airdrop to raise awareness about the project, but Hasegawa spoke to the broader benefits of the distribution model, writing in an email to CoinDesk — via a spokesperson, «The real value of ethereum projects doing airdrops to all ETH holders is that it's a crypto economic mechanism designed to incentivize ethereum project communities to maintain alignment with the entire ethereum community.»

On Wednesday, a startup called Brave launched a coin offering to fund a new web browser and raised the equivalent of $ 35 million in about 30 seconds, according to CoinDesk.

«In the near future most problems will be about getting Lightning to work in practice,» Swiss university ETH Zürich researcher Conrad Burchert told CoinDesk.

The price then fell about $ 14 to fall under the $ 230 mark, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index.

CoinDesk interviews Circle founders Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville about their $ 76m blockchain payments company, its market strategy and its future.

«The report talks about some proofs - of - concept in SWIFT Innovation Labs but does not describe what they are in enough detail for me to say anything sensible about them,» Birch told CoinDesk.

Bitcoin markets, which rose to a high of $ 2,925.03 during today's trading according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI), are currently trading at around $ 2,732, representing a decline of about 4.9 percent.

Following its publication yesterday, legal experts raised concerns about a view put forward in a CoinDesk opinion article by nChain legal officer Jimmy Nguyen that asserted the upgrade, called Segregated Witness, could face problems under US electronic signature law if activated on the network.

Prices fell to as low as $ 14,502 to start today's trading session, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin Price Index (BPI), about 27 percent from the all - time high of $ 19,783 reported on Dec. 17.

In interview with CoinDesk, Haipo Yang, the founder and CEO of ViaBTC, said that there was nothing that would change his mind about continuing to support multiple developer groups.

While some described the market to CoinDesk as bearish overall, other observers offered a more optimistic stance about the prospects for future price developments.

CoinDesk speaks with representatives from Banco Santander about the bank's blockchain strategy for 2016 and beyond.

Oreskin's comments came as bitcoin prices slid about 5 % to $ 5,294 Wednesday, according to CoinDesk.

CoinDesk reported in February that the country's regulators were looking into about 15 exchanges operating in the country without a license.

That layer aims to speed things up by creating a secondary channel with its own mini digital ledger that keeps excess traffic off of a congested blockchain (you can read more about how that works in this helpful Coindesk explainer).

Nolan Bauerle, director of research at CoinDesk, told IBT Segwit2x was «all about high profile support,» which bgold lacks.

Braintree chief executive Bill Ready is known for his optimism about bitcoin's future as a payments method, telling CoinDesk in November that his firm is working to take bitcoin mainstream.

For instance, CoinDesk is owned by Digital Currency Group (DCG) who in turn has funded 80 - odd companies over the last few years, including about 10 mentioned in this article (such as Coinbase and BTC China).