July 2020

The Bank of Japan is warming to digital currencies and now has a team dedicated to researching a possible digital yen.

Mastercard said Wire is the first crypto company to become a principal member, meaning it can directly issue payment cards to its customers.

The Ontario Securities Commission alleges Coinsquare manipulated markets with fake trading volumes between 2018 and 2019.

Jan Marsalek, a former board member of Wirecard who is wanted over allegations of fraud, is reportedly being sheltered in Moscow by the biggest Russian secret service.

Stock markets mostly seeing weak selling; Gold and Silver near record highs; Euro strong

PayPal has chosen Paxos to handle the new service’s supply of digital assets, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Yes, the Twitter hack was basically a giant bitcoin scam. But the fallout is showing the world the strengths of cryptocurrency and decentralization.

Long Reads Sunday features two essays previously published on CoinDesk that show the trajectory of stablecoins in the global economy in 2020.

Bitcoin days destroyed (BDD) was first introduced as a concept back in 2011. At the time, it had only been two years since the creation of the world’s first cryptocurrency, bitcoin. Individuals were already beginning to innovate ways to measure on-chain transaction activity and value.

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