As American cryptocurrency markets remain relatively subdued, investors are turning to Asia for fresh lifeblood. Case and point, Multicoin Capital just hired Beijing-based investor Mable Jiang, formerly of Nirvana…
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Stack Overflow VP Joins Crypto Lending Firm as Chief Product Officer – CoinDesk
Cryptocurrency financial services firm Unchained Capital has hired Will Cole of the Wyoming Blockchain Task Force as its new chief product officer, the firm announced Thursday. Cole leaves Stack…
Crypto Lender BlockFi Rolls Out Zero-Fee Trading for Bitcoin, Ether, GUSD – CoinDesk
BlockFi, the cryptocurrency lending service backed by Galaxy Digital, Winklevoss Capital, ConsenSys Ventures and others, is expanding into trading with an unusual, zero-fee model. The startup has made a…
Litecoin’s Mining Power Tanks to Lowest in Year Following Price Plunge – CoinDesk
Litecoin’s price plunge in recent months has whittled away the profitability of mining the cryptocurrency, leading to a shakeout among computer operators on the network seen as a faster…
North Korean Hacking Group May Be Behind Malware-Laden Fake Crypto Site – CoinDesk
A new and hard-to-detect macOS malware variant has been discovered lurking on a fake cryptocurrency trading site. Discovered by malware researcher Dinesh Devadoss, the malicious code is believed to…
Gemini Hires Former Starling Bank Founder as Managing Director of Europe – CoinDesk
Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange co-founded by Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, is tapping a digital bank founder to manage its European operations, the company announced Wednesday. Julian Sawyer, former co-founder…
Sanctions Weren’t Discussed at North Korea Crypto Conference, Attendee Says – CoinDesk
An Italian citizen who attended the North Korean cryptocurrency conference in April says the U.S. government’s charges against his friend and ethereum developer Virgil Griffith are overblown. Griffith has…
Kakao’s Delayed Crypto Wallet Will Support Native Dapps, Collectibles – CoinDesk
Kakao’s coming wallet for its “klay” cryptocurrency will also support blockchain apps and tokens based on the firm’s Klaytn blockchain. That’s the good news for fans. Less so is…
Russian Central Bank Says It Would Support Crypto Ban – CoinDesk
The Bank of Russia has backed a potential ban on cryptocurrency payments. When asked by state-operated news agency RIA, the central bank offered the opinion that “private cryptocurrencies cannot…
Little-Known Crypto Exchange With Ties to a Shanghai Firm Halts Services, Says CEO ‘Missing’ – CoinDesk
An obscure cryptocurrency exchange named IDAX has said its “global CEO has gone missing” and asked customers to stop using its services. The exchange said in an urgent notice…