To take crypto, Swalwell’s campaign is using The White Company, a blockchain payments firm that accepts bitcoin (BTC), bitcoin cash (BCH), bitcoin SV (BSV), ether (ETH), stellar lumens (XLM), and its own stablecoin WSD that runs on the Stellar netw
It’s been a great month for the cryptocommunity as Bitcoin’s price rose sharply. This growth can be attributed to a combination of factors. One of these factors that can’t be ignored is the Lightning Network. This off-chain protocol continues t
Bitfinex announced today its first foray into the increasingly popular business of initial exchange offerings (IEOs). A new Bitfinex service called Tokinex will announce its first token launch this Thursday, followed by the debut of a second token o
Christian Catalini is on leave from MIT and working at Facebook, two people with knowledge of the situation told CoinDesk. The prominent crypto economist is helping the social media giant with its cryptocurrency efforts, the sources said. Facebook i
Token sales haven’t stopped since the 2017 boom. They’ve just changed names. Initial exchange offerings (IEOs) – where a cryptocurrency exchange offers a direct listing and launch campaign for a new startup token – are earning blockchain c
With gold on the defensive and down roughly 6 percent since mid-February, bitcoin may continue to shine brightly in the near future. After all, experts have found the two assets to be inversely correlated. The 90-day correlation coefficient between
With the Turkish lira dropping to a six-month low against the dollar last week, bitcoin is continuing to pick up even more traction in Istanbul. Andy Cheung, head of operations at the global crypto exchange OKEx, told CoinDesk that over 30,000 Turki
Stock exchange operator Nasdaq is adding yet another cryptocurrency index – this time for the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency, XRP.The company announced Monday that, through its partnership with New Zealand-based blockchain data and research