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Last week, over 500 attendees and speakers gathered inside New York's TimesCenter
for CoinDesk's inaugural conference, Consensus 2015.
Over 500 attendees and speakers gathered inside New York's TimesCenter
for CoinDesk's inaugural conference, Consensus 2015.
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for CoinDesk.
As we wrote in our submission
for CoinDesk's 2016 in Review, «In 2017, we need to get our act together.
Not exact matches
In November, Coinbase was ordered by the United States District Court
for the Northern District of California to hand over user data where trading volume exceeded $ 20,000 from 2013 to 2015,
Coindesk reported.
According to
Coindesk, Amazon signed up
for the domain"amazonbitcoin.com» three years ago.
Bitcoin began 2017 at less than $ 1,000 per token, but it has been on an absolute tear in recent months: It crossed $ 5,000 in October and touched above $ 11,000
for the first time less than two months later, according to
CoinDesk data.
«We are pleased with the sale, and we're looking forward to disrupting digital advertising and building a user - centric platform
for supporting the Web,» Eich told
CoinDesk.
Harbor CEO Joshua Stein, told
CoinDesk that the company will use the funding to further develop its ethereum - based R - Token platform, which he said provides
for «compliance at the token level.»
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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.
«What's more interesting is the increased sophistication of the institutional buy side
for cryptocurrencies,» said Nolan Bauerle, director of research at
CoinDesk.
This is a shame, because, as I have previously mentioned on
CoinDesk, Canada is an attractive environment
for bitcoin entities to set up operations since our country does not have,
for example, the state - by - state money transmitting regulations that currently exist in the US.
Revealed exclusively to
CoinDesk, the venture arm of the telecommunications giant is leading a $ 3.3 million seed investment in Blockdaemon, a New York City - based startup that creates enterprise software
for interacting with a wide range of blockchains.
In China, bitcoin miners have been arrested in two cities
for allegedly stealing electricity,
CoinDesk reported.
And U.S. Congressman Patrick McHenry said lawmakers shouldn't rush to create crypto regulations even though fraud is a major issue
for cryptocurrencies,
CoinDesk reported.
After trading in a range
for the last week, bitcoin climbed to an all - time high Sunday of $ 3,012.05, according to
CoinDesk.
Visa Europe Collab's Jon Downing and Epiphyte's Edan Yago discussed the reasons
for embarking on the project, and
for using the bitcoin blockchain instead of a closed network, in this
CoinDesk exclusive.
Every project or token that the fund invests in must show a high potential
for appreciation, Mougayar told
CoinDesk, explaining:
Additionally, this year's total accounts
for more than three - quarters of all venture capital raised
for bitcoin startups since the start of
CoinDesk data in 2012.
In
CoinDesk's «Bitcoin Milestones» series, attorney Marco Santori recalls the heyday of Silk Road, its sudden downfall and its legacy
for bitcoin.
Firstly, it calls
for the immediate reduction of liabilities through the injection of new bitcoins and the purchase of coins at depressed prices on its own exchange, in what sources told
CoinDesk amounted to a bailout of the embattled exchange.
Patrick Murck, counsel at Cooley LLP and fellow at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center
for Internet & Society, told
CoinDesk the token economy could be on the verge of a dramatic shift if the SEC agrees with Gensler.
is available
for purchase on
CoinDesk's research page.
At press time, the cryptocurrency's price had climbed to as much as $ 1,407.05, a 4.4 % increase
for the day, according to the
CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI).
The provider of payments solutions Square reported that
for the first quarter the company's revenues from the sale of bitcoin amounted to $ 34.1 million, reports
CoinDesk.
CoinDesk estimates ICOs have raised nearly $ 13 billion
for blockchain - related startups.
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Green praised Bittrex
for flagging the issue by preventing new ether and asset deposit address generation — and while other major exchanges and wallets have yet to respond, Green told
CoinDesk that he expects ethereum developers to release a new algorithm soon.
As profiled by
CoinDesk, the announcement of an unaffiliated venture known as «litecoin cash» has boosted demand
for the cryptocurrency, although consultants say these anticipating the ensuing tokens to be as priceless as bitcoin cash could need to assume once more.
Bitcoin surged above the $ 17,000 mark
for the first time ever on Thursday, according to
CoinDesk, which calculates the average price of a bitcoin based on data from four popular exchanges.
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CoinDesk is a subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which has an ownership stake in Zcash Company, the
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Announced today at
CoinDesk's Consensus: Invest in New York, TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington revealed he's raising $ 100 million
for a hedge fund that will buy and hold crypto assets while making investments in token sales and (some) equities and debt.
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The new
CoinDesk index represents an average of leading global bitcoin exchanges but the formula is flexible enough to maintain only those exchange rates that conform to certain minimum criteria
for price discovery and validity.
In addition to a real - time API updated every 60 seconds,
CoinDesk will provide a GMT (Greenwich Mean Time) end - of - day closing index price including a high price and a low price
for the daily trading period.
CoinDesk reported in February that the government was moving to put a legal framework
for fintech in place.
While that might sound too good to be true
for the long - waiting ethereum faithful,
CoinDesk has confirmed that the network's creator, Vitalik Buterin, is now in the process of crafting three white papers explaining Casper, the protocol's much - anticipated version of proof - of - stake consensus.
A spokesperson
for the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) later told
CoinDesk «miners and mining pools are exempt from the BitLicense».
«Imagine an individual who purchased 1.5 bitcoins in January of 2017
for $ 1,200 a bitcoin,» Woodin told
CoinDesk.
The Bank of China says, (following the translation by
CoinDesk) that an exchange can not: «Provide a price bidding or middleman service
for the exchange of tokens
for cryptocurrency.»
ICO funding
for the first quarter of 2018 was USD6.3 billion, almost 20 percent higher than the previous year, according to
Coindesk.
«It is still early to call the winner at this stage,» Toya Zhang, senior PR Manager
for OKCoin, told
CoinDesk.
CoinDesk Bitcoin prices surpassed those of gold earlier this month, but the digital asset failed to maintain this position
for long, data reveals.
In this
CoinDesk Op - Ed, Stark argues that the field of «law and blockchain» encompasses two distinct topics: the application of law to the technology, and separately, the potential
for that technology to transform legal systems and services.
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