May 2020

Stocks continue to decline; Yen and Dollar rise as Fed rules out negative rates, gold and oil consolidate

Reddit has unveiled its “community points” offering members a way to earn a “piece of their favorite communities,” built right on top of the blockchain.

TL;DR: Moons are a new way for people to be rewarded for their contributions to r/CryptoCurrency. They represent ownership in the subreddit, they are tokens on the Ethereum blockchain controlled entirely by you, and they can be freely transferred, tipped, and spent in r/CryptoCurrency. Claim your Moons in the new Read more…

Consensus: Distributed saw discussions over the constitutionality of FATF’s Travel Rule and why regulators want DeFi in the U.S.

IOV Labs, which builds platforms secured by bitcoin’s hash rate, launched Wednesday a light client for the Lumino Payments Network, its smart contract-compatible rival to the lightning network

A slowly rising bitcoin price might not help some miners run profitable operations now that the halving is in the past.

F2Pool co-founder Wang Chun tells Consensus: Distributed why he chose a $2.3T NY Times headline for Bitcoin’s last block before the halving.

Benjamin Lawsky, the former regulator who created New York’s BitLicense in 2015, joined a bitcoin fund manager nearly a year before it applied for, and received, the license.

The CEO of Tezos reveals her biggest fear, and what inspires her most, in an all new CoinDesk Confessional.

A conversation with the “Price of Tomorrow” author on the key structural challenge looming over the global economy.