Emily Parker is CoinDesk’s executive director of global content. Previously, Emily was a member of the Policy Planning staff at the U.S. State Department, where she advised on Internet freedom and digital diplomacy. Emily was a writer/editor at The Wall Street Journal and an editor at The New York Times. She is the co-founder of LongHash, a blockchain startup that focuses on Asian markets. She is the author of “Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground” (Farrar,… Source link

2022 was “the perfect storm” for Bitcoin (BTC) miners, according to Jaime Leverton, CEO of Hut8 mining, one of the largest crypto miners and digital asset experts in the space.  Leverton sat down with Gareth Jenkinson, senior reporter at Cointelegraph, in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Topics included were the 2022 bear market, Web3 diversification and, crucially, Bitcoin’s growing positive impact on the environment and broader economy. Leverton shared… Source link

The accused crypto burglar and rapper who dubs herself “The Crocodile of Wall Street” and “Razzlekhan” has landed a job with a tech company — even though she’s under house arrest for allegedly orchestrating a scheme to launder $4.5 billion of stolen bitcoin. Heather Morgan, 31, is now employed by an unknown tech firm despite the legal peril she and her husband, Ilya Lichtenstein, face over accusations they attempted to launder 119,754 bitcoin that they… Source link

Bitcoin rose to its highest level since September, as markets prepared for the release of U.S. retail sales data. This afternoon’s economic release is expected to show a cooling off of sales, as consumers prepare for a recession. Ethereum also rose on the news, as it continued to hover close to $1,600. Bitcoin Bitcoin (BTC) rose above a key resistance level at $21,400 in today’s session, hitting a fresh multi-month high in the process. Following a low of $21,120.16, BTC/USD raced… Source link

This is an opinion editorial by Tim Niemeyer, co-host of the Lincolnland Bitcoin Meetup. Source As you might have learned from watching the mainstream news, the bitcoin price has been pumping as of late. If you bought the top and held until now, you may consider taking advice from good ol’ Mr. Goldshill himself, Peter Schiff, and use this opportunity to sell. If you’re someone who missed the boat, though, you may reasonably wait for confirmation and buy closer to $70,000. For those… Source link

Ethereum’s native token, Ether (ETH), could grow by 35% versus Bitcoin (BTC) this year to hit 0.1 BTC for the first time since 2018 as it forms a classic bullish continuation pattern. Ethereum price must first break key resistance Dubbed an ascending triangle, the pattern forms when the price fluctuates inside a range defined by rising trendline support and horizontal trendline resistance. It typically resolves after the price breaks out in the direction of its previous trend. On a weekly… Source link

Yuri Molchan Shiba Inu has outperformed LTC, while SHIB jumps in price and manages to become popular among top whales Prominent doggy-themed token Shiba Inu has been on a tear this week. It has been demonstrating a massive price rise in the past seven days and last 24 hours and has outperformed another popular altcoin, Litecoin (LTC). It jumped to reach two milestones for the largest whales on Ethereum. SHIB outstrips LTC but is still behind Solana Shiba Inu’s market capitalization… Source link

When Ethereum (ETH 0.36%) started getting wide public notice in 2020 and 2021, it already had a huge lead over other blockchains that were launching amid the crypto bubble. Developers had spent years constructing tools and infrastructure that projects like non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and new tokens could build on.  As we begin a new year, there’s one cryptocurrency that has the momentum of a different type that could make it the Ethereum of 2023. That’s Polygon (MATIC -2.41%), the… Source link

Bitcoin (BTC) faced a potentially volatile day on Jan. 18 as multiple macro triggers began to unsettle the outlook. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView BoJ refuses to hike Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD holding firm above $21,000 on the day. The pair remained cool amid news from Japan, where the central bank, the Bank of Japan (BoJ) had decided to keep ultra-easy policy in place, defying expectations of an interest rate hike. In so… Source link

The price of bitcoin has surged nearly 30 per cent against the dollar in January, raising hopes among its faithful followers that the crypto market is emerging from the credit crisis that gripped it for much of last year. The token, the most actively traded in the industry, has soared to more than $21,000 in the past week, breaking out of the tight range around $17,000 upon which it had settled following the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange in November. The cryptocurrency has joined… Source link