Bitcoin prices continued to march higher on Tuesday, trading through $8,000 for the first time in more than nine months. The price of a single bitcoin BTCUSD, +3.83% hit an intraday day high around $8,300 and in most recent trade the cryptocurrency was…
Category: Bitcoin
Bitcoin Price Surges: BTC Breaks 8,100
Bitcoin’s price has continued to extend its recent rally to a price level beyond $8,000. At 21:30 UTC today, the price world’s largest cryptocurrency rose as high as $8,195 on Coinbase, marking a 17.4 percent or $1214 increase during today’s…
Tor Makes Launching Bitcoin Lightning Nodes Easier for Users, Casa Finds
The privacy-minded network Tor helps users to leapfrog one of the trickier aspects of setting up a bitcoin and lightning node, according to bitcoin startup Casa. Casa CTO Jameson Lopp addressed this point during a talk at CoinDesk’s Consensus 2019…
Children of the Crypto Revolution – Join Us!
The leader in blockchain news, CoinDesk is a media outlet that strives for the highest journalistic standards and abides by a strict set of editorial policies. CoinDesk is an independent operating subsidiary of Digital Currency Group, which invests in cryptocurrencies…
Murder, Censorship and Syria: Crypto and the Future of Uprisings
Rachel-Rose O’Leary is a reporter at CoinDesk, covering how cryptocurrencies are being used in areas of economic, social and political unrest. This article is part of her ongoing dispatches from Rojava, Syria. In August 2011, a hackerspace in Damascus, Syria,…
Bolt Labs Raises $1.5 Million Seed Round to Boost Lightning Privacy
Academic researcher Dr. Ayo Akinyele is working on a cryptographic solution to boost privacy across second-layer blockchain solutions like the lightning network for bitcoin. Akinyele just announced the formation of Bolt Labs, named after the BOLT protocol that aims to…
The Upside of Bitcoin’s Upside (It’s Not What You Think)
Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and member of CoinDesk’s product team. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a newsletter for the institutional market, with news and views on crypto infrastructure delivered every Tuesday. Sign up here.…
Sparkswap Raises $3.5 Million From Initialized, Pantera for Lightning-Powered DEX
UPDATE (April 8, 13:40 UTC): The funding round was led by Initialized Capital, not Pantera Capital. The headline has been updated. A San Francisco-based decentralized exchange (DEX) called Sparkswap launched Monday, becoming the first North American exchange to fully integrate…
The Easiest Way to Send and Lose Bitcoin in 2012
Dan Gallancy tells the story of the Bitcoin that he sent to friends, but never quite got there. Subscribe to CoinDesk on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_c… Site: https://www.coindesk.comFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/CoinDeskTwitter: https://www.twitter.com/coindeskInstagram: https://www.Instagram.com/coindeskNewsletter: https://www.coindesk.com/newsletter/Twitter (Markets): https://www.twitter.com/coindeskmarkets CoinDesk is the leading digital media, events and…
Bitcoin Price Charts Echo Pattern Seen Before 2015 Bull Market
View Bitcoin’s drop from a record high of $20,000 clocked in December 2017 has ended up creating a falling channel similar to the one created in the 18 months leading up to the long-term bullish reversal seen in October 2015.…