January 2020

Join us on January 8 for a CoinDesk OnTap meetup in Las Vegas.

With 2019 vanishing in the rear view mirror, Markets Daily is back for an insightful look into the trends that are already shaping this new decade.

With the mining of block 9,200,000, ethereum’s Muir Glacier upgrade has been implemented. The block was mined today at 8:30 UTC.

During the Asian trading session, the US Dollar was able to regroup after being subjected to a losing streak that lasted through six trading sessions.

2019 was a turbulent year for many markets, especially as the U.S-Sino trade war but traders on edge and called into question how global trade would develop.

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Why 2020 represents a fundamental dividing line between cypherpunk crypto and government & corporate co-opted crypto.

On today’s holiday episode of Markets Daily, we celebrate the new year with a classic song from the early days of bitcoin.

The People’s Bank of China stated on Wednesday that it is diminishing the reserve requirements in order to increase liquidity and stimulate the economy.

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