Mobile bank Revolut has launched in the U.S., with an eye to offering its cryptocurrency services sometime in the near future. The London-based challenger bank announced Tuesday that U.S. customers could now register for an account and sign up for…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] In this episode of CoinDesk’s Markets Daily, crypto investment goes up while BTC price bumps up against $7K.
Marcelo M. Prates is a lawyer at the Central Bank of Brazil and holds a doctorate from Duke University School of Law. The views expressed here are his own and do not reflect the position or policy of any of…
What is bitcoin halving, how will it affect the price, and what does it mean for cryptocurrency in general? We spell it all out for you here. Explore these stories for more: “The halvening” sounds like a horror movie about…
[unable to retrieve full-text content] Will the US launch a digital dollar? And what happens to racers when they can’t race? Find out on CoinDesk’s Markets Daily podcast.
The global market meltdown has indirectly benefited Russia’s bitcoin miners, even as the cryptocurrency’s price tumbled along with other assets. That’s because the Russian national currency has rapidly lost value, dropping from 60 rubles to the dollar to 80 in…
A new political action committee (PAC) is hoping to push crypto-friendly public policy by providing financial support to Congressional candidates. Founded by former Cato Institute staffer Tyler Whirty, HODLpac seeks to advocate for blockchain legislation by directing funds to different…
The Federal Reserve pledged Monday to buy bonds in an unlimited quantity while allocating at least $300 billion to new emergency-lending programs. These measures are being taken as Wall Street reels from fresh predictions of a steep drop-off in economic…
The best Sundays are for long reads and deep conversations. From Boeing to bitcoin in this week’s discussion we’re talking about our disrupted reality, the politically expedient path forward, why it almost certainly won’t work, the alternatives to it, what…
Catherine Coley is the CEO of Binance.US. Previously she was Head of XRP Institutional Liquidity at Ripple after working for Morgan Stanley Foreign Exchange desks in Hong Kong and London. Amid the fear and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, the…