Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk’s weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I’m Ben Schiller, CoinDesk’s Opinion and Features editor. In this...
XRP, the native token of the XRP Ledger network closely related to Ripple, surged to a six-year high on Wednesday as bitcoin (BTC) rallied to $100,000,...
With only a handful of days remaining until the second inauguration of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, crypto policy groups are readying to kick things into higher...
On Jan. 20, 2025, the United States will start a new chapter in more ways than one. While the nation will be focused on President Trump’s...
Last June, a sailing buddy (and aerospace engineer) asked if I could check out a family friend’s “bitcoin.” He forwarded me an image of a plastic...
The analyst who wrote this piece owns shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR). Since MicroStrategy (MSTR) become a bitcoin treasury company in August 2020, it has used three...
The U.K. government has appointed Emma Reynolds as the new Economic Secretary in charge of overseeing digital assets and central bank digital currencies — alongside the...
Decentralization is the foundation of blockchain technology, promising a more resilient and censorship-resistant alternative to centralized systems. But are the industry’s leading protocols as decentralized as...
U.S. prosecutors have asked a federal judge to green-light the return of nearly 80% of the 119,754 bitcoins stolen in the 2016 hack of crypto exchange...
Boerse Stuttgart, one of Germany’s leading stock exchanges, has seen its cryptocurrency trading business explode in recent years to now account for approximately 25% of its...