Former CFTC Chair Gary Gensler, who’s leading Joe Biden’s financial oversight team, may be tapped as Deputy Treasury Secretary.
Grayscale’s Bitcoin Cash and Litecoin offerings are trading at a more than 1000% premium compared to underlying asset value, according to market performance data published on its website.
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Bitcoin’s price rise stalled out just before hitting $19,500 Wednesday. The Ethereum network’s fees are in an upswing.
Canadian exchange Coinsquare has added two new executives to its board of directors.
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Galaxy Digital’s institutional bitcoin fund raised an average of $1.6 million from its 33 unnamed investors.
This year, come prepared to explain the asset that has everyone from famous financiers to political dissidents talking about a money revolution.
China’s state-sanctioned blockchain infrastructure provider BSN is adding cross-chain protocol Polkadot, decentralized cloud data startup Oasis and China-based project Bityuan to its network.
Some OKEx’s users in China are determined to leave the exchange despite new incentives designed to keep them.
Quick Take
- The initial phase of Eth2 — the next-generation of Ethereum — is rolling out next week. It represents the first step in Ethereum’s transition into a proof-of-stake network.
- But there’s still a lot of work left to do for the full Eth2 upgrade, Justin Drake, Eth2 researcher at the Ethereum Foundation, told The Block.
- The rest of the Eth2 journey won’t be without its challenges.
In a fragmented global market, price quotes are all over the place. That’s why CoinDesk created the Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) and is standing by it.
