CryptoCurrency News: China’s Rainy Season Is Coming. This Time Bitcoin Miners Aren’t Investing

With bitcoin’s price drop and imminent halving, mining farms in China are struggling to fill slots despite the coming rainy season, when power is cheap.

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CryptoCurrency News: Openfinance Warns It Will Delist All Security Tokens Without New Funds

Openfinance says it will delist all security tokens next month if it cannot secure enough fees from issuers to cover operating costs.

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CryptoCurrency News: Market Wrap: Oil Rebounds As Crypto Makes Gains, Especially Ether

Oil’s bounceback performance seems to be taking the driver’s seat in market activity. Bitcoin is also up, and ether’s price performance is even better.

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CryptoCurrency News: Libra’s Long Road From a Facebook Lab to the Global Stage: A Timeline

A detailed chronology of Libra's journey from a skunkworks inside Facebook to a potential global monetary game-changer to a shadow of its former self.

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CryptoCurrency News: Why the Fed Is the Only Sugar Daddy Left, Feat, Luke Gromen

A look at how we went from the Bretton Woods system of gold-backed USD to the QE Infinity of today.

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CryptoCurrency News: As Museums Go Dark, Crypto Art Finds Its Frame

With the physical world closed, artists are presenting their works in the glow of online showrooms, like the new Nifty Gateway.

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CryptoCurrency News: Blockchain Bites: Ripple Sues YouTube, Monero Hits the Box Office and Draper Wants Crypto Everywhere

Is Renaissance bullish on bitcoin? What's the "crypto/lobbyist" revolving door? Will YouTube take down XRP giveaway scams?

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CryptoCurrency News: Italy’s Leading Wire Service Is Using Ethereum to Thwart Copycats

Italy's ANSA newswire is trialing an ethereum-based system to track every article it publishes in an effort to prevent impersonators from publishing fake news under its banner.

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CryptoCurrency News: Stablecoins Aren’t Inflating Crypto Market, Study Concludes

New research on issuances and flows of Tether and other stablecoins finds no systematic evidence that these assets drive cryptocurrency market movements.

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin News Roundup for April 22, 2020

Bitcoin reacts to stimulus packages and the UK bails out big tech. It's CoinDesk's Markets Daily podcast.

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CryptoCurrency News: Power Ledger to Bring Blockchain Energy Trading to West Australian Housing Developments

The blockchain firm will provide the technology to enable energy trading at 10 new housing developments.

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CryptoCurrency News: Tim Draper Firm Launches ‘Crypto Exchange’ Anyone Can Plug Into WordPress

The plugin is available from today

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CryptoCurrency News: Crypto’s Zoom Moment Is Coming

Zoom is now a household name. Can crypto be next?

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CryptoCurrency News: Bitcoin Approaches $7K as U.S. Passes New $480B Stimulus Package

Bitcoin has risen back close to $7,000 as the U.S. Senate's approval of new coronavirus stimulus package buoys stocks.

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CryptoCurrency News: First Mover: What the Oil Price Collapse Means for Bitcoin’s Halving Valuation

What does the crash in black gold mean for digital gold in the important weeks ahead?

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CryptoCurrency News: Miners Trick Stablecoin Protocol PegNet, Turning $11 Into Almost $7M Hoard

The millions in tokens were later destroyed, painting a confusing picture of the attacker's motives.

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CryptoCurrency News: Everledger Offers Diamond Industry Blockchain-Based Carbon Offsetting

Track-and-trace blockchain pioneer Everledger is using its technology to help the diamond industry offset its carbon footprint.

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CryptoCurrency News: Gemini Clears New Deloitte Audit in Bid to Appeal to Wall Street

Gemini’s exchange and custody services have cleared yet another systems design check.

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