Bitcoin had another down day. How long the cryptocurrency follows stocks, and whether next month’s halving juices its price, remain open questions.
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The U.S. patent office has granted Blockstack intellectual property rights around its single sign-on service for dapps.
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The American-led global order has been unraveling for 30 years, and COVID-19 may be the blow that changes it once and for all.
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Customers spent fewer bitcoins at darknet markets over the last two months despite the slide in the cryptocurrency’s price, according to data from blockchain surveillance firm Chainalysis.
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A federal judge denied Telegram’s request to issue Gram tokens to non-U.S. investors.
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Bitfury has dedicated its GPU miners to the Folding@home project, which is studying the novel coronavirus in hopes of developing a vaccine.
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While bitcoin and the broader crypto market fell during Q1 amid a global crisis, a few coins outperformed. Here are a few notable winners and losers.
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Coinbase has put $1.1 million in USDC into the pools powering two of the more popular DeFi applications on Ethereum: Uniswap and PoolTogether.
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A new mesh network runs on crypto and the Bitcoin markets might not hit $20K. It’s CoinDesk’s Markets Daily Podcast.
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Binance has been offering “generous” referral bonuses for its new crypto mining pool.
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