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Did Corporate Insiders Perfectly Predict the Market Top?
24.9.2020
In August, the volume of personally owned stock sold by corporate executives reached its highest level since 2015, followed by a 10% decline in the S&P500 in September
Over 100 Million People Hold Bitcoin, Altcoins Globally - Report
24.9.2020
Crypto usership is going up at an exponential rate, per researchers at the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance, with over 100 million people worldwide now making use of cryptoassets – a massive increase from the 35 million figure the same researches identified just two years.
According to...
CoinDesk Reporters Discuss FinCEN Files, Venezuela’s Stablecoin Flop and More
24.9.2020
From the CoinDesk Global Macro news desk, this is Borderless - A twice-monthly roundup of the most important stories impacting bitcoin and the crypto sector from around the world
A Gentle Introduction to Using a Docker Container as a Dev Environment
24.9.2020
Sarcasm disclaimer: This article is mostly sarcasm. I do not think that I actually speak for Dylan Thomas and I would never encourage you to foist a light theme on people who don’t want it. No matter how wrong they may be.
When Dylan Thomas penned the words, “Do not go gentle into that good...
Read CoinDesk’s New, Expanded Ethics Policy
24.9.2020
As part of our ongoing efforts to be maximally transparent and accountable to readers, CoinDesk has substantially updated and expanded its ethics policy
Kelta Cafes: Building a Robust Workplace for Blockchain Enthusiasts
24.9.2020
Blockchain technology has experienced a lot of growth in the last few years. The immutable peer-to-peer distributed ledger system created by Satoshi Nakamoto was given a little chance to survive at the initial stage. Still, many people are now betting on several blockchain projects. The popularity...
Violent Reflexivity: Why Market Movements Are More Aggressive Than Ever, Feat. Corey Hoffstein
23.9.2020
How the Fed and the rise of passive investing and volatility strategies have combined to make market movements faster and more severe
Me, Myself and My Multiple Avatars
23.9.2020
In 2030, there are 20-odd versions of "you" floating around the internet. Can you manage all the personas you created?
Survey: Large Number of Yield Farmers Can’t Read Smart Contracts Despite High Risk
23.9.2020
A new Coingecko survey has found that a large number of yield farmers do not know how to read smart contracts despite claiming they understand the risks that come with such investments. According to the survey, which polled 1,347 people, around 40% of decentralized finance (defi) users cannot...
Marty Bent on Why Bitcoin and Big Energy Are Unlikely Allies
22.9.2020
Bitcoin mining can help big energy companies produce more efficiently, increasing American energy independence in the process
Facebook’s Libra Co-Founder Morgan Beller Departs to Return to VC
22.9.2020
Beller, 27, will become a general partner at NFX. She'd worked at a16z before joining Facebook
JD.com to Build Apps for China’s Digital Yuan Project: Report
22.9.2020
The Chinese e-commerce giant has reportedly agreed to help the nation's central bank develop infrastructure including a wallet for its cash-equivalent digital currency
Nova
21.9.2020
Nova is a new (vehemently macOS-only) code editor from Panic, the folks behind Coda. It’s like “Coda 3” except this was such a major re-write that they gave it a whole new name.
I played with some of the betas as they were building it. I got a little discount as it went live, so...
The FinCEN Files Show Banks Don’t Actually Care About Stopping Money Laundering
21.9.2020
The massive leak of suspicious activity reports shows how banks let the government know about likely money laundering, then go right on providing services
Chamath Palihapitiya’s Social Capital Holds Bitcoin From 2013 Amid Talk of Public Listing
21.9.2020
Social Capital, the Silicon Valley venture capital and private equity investment office started by an early Facebook vice president, has held bitcoin since 2013
US Indicts 2 People Stealing $17M in Bitcoin and Ether From Binance, Poloniex, Gemini Users
21.9.2020
Two people have been charged in the U.S. for allegedly using “a sophisticated market manipulation scheme” to defraud and steal $17 million in bitcoin and ether from users of three cryptocurrency exchanges worldwide. The targeted exchanges were Binance, Poloniex, and Gemini. Binance...
Lyn Alden’s Latest: Why Currency Devaluation Is Inevitable
20.9.2020
This week’s “Long Reads Sunday” reading is from macro analyst Lyn Alden and focuses on the inflation vs. deflation debate in historical context
Did Ethereum Learn Anything From the $55M DAO Attack?
20.9.2020
Matthew Leising's new book, "Out of the Ether," tells the story of the attack that almost brought down Ethereum. Here he talks with Dan Kuhn
How Does Kraken’s New Crypto Bank Work?
20.9.2020
This week Kraken Financial became the first crypto company to receive a banking charter. Join CEO David Kinitsky for a look at what it all means and how it'll work with hosts Adam B. Levine, Andreas M. Antonopoulos and Stephanie Murphy
The ‘Hot Swap’ Plan to Switch Ethereum to Proof-of-Stake Explained
19.9.2020
With Ethereum 2.0's much-anticipated move to Proof-of-Stake getting closer, CoinDesk Research Analyst Christine Kim spoke with Ethereum developer Danny Ryan and Liz Steininger, CEO of blockchain security company Least Authority on what users and investors should expect