Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Finance

Hive Blockchain First-Quarter Profit Jumps More Than Tenfold

Hive Blockchain said fiscal first-quarter profit climbed to $18.6 million from $1.8 million in the year-earlier period.

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Policy

El Salvador Mines First Bitcoin With Volcanic Energy

Almost 22% of the country’s power market is geothermal.

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Policy

France’s Market Authority Warns Against Proposed Air Next ICO

The AMF said it didn’t issue a “visa” for the offering and warned of the risk of fraud.

The AMF's legal analysis found that existing EU markets regulations would stifle any promising blockchain enterprise. (Credit: Bruno Bleu / Shutterstock)

Finance

Argo Blockchain to Buy 20,000 Mining Machines for West Texas Data Center

The 20,000 Bitmain Antminer S19J Pro machines will increase Argo’s hashrate by more than 2 exahash.

Máquinas de minería de bitcoin (Shutterstock)

Finance

Zero Hash Eyes Expansion in DeFi, NFTs After Raising $35M

The funding round was led by the venture arm of Point72, the firm helmed by billionaire investor, and New York Mets team owner, Steven Cohen.

Edward Woodford, co-founder of Seed CX and Zero Hash (far right), appears on a panel at Consensus 2019.

Finance

Visa Working on Interoperability Platform for Stablecoins, CBDCs

The channel would allow cryptocurrencies to be transferred between different blockchains.

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Finance

Bitfinex Halts Trading Due to Platform Outage

The crypto exchange said the issue has been resolved and all systems are operational.

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Finance

Bank of England Unveils CBDC Forum Members, Including Reps From Asos, PayPal and Spotify

The formation of two forums was announced in April to explore a potential UK CBDC that would exist alongside cash and bank deposits.

The Royal Exchange. (QQ7/Shutterstock)

Finance

Ripple Launches $250M NFT Fund

Creators, brands and marketplaces will be given support to explore how the XRP Ledger’s speed and cost can support new use cases for NFTs.

Water ripple. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Finance

Verifone Partners With BitPay to Support Crypto Payments

Rollout will commence later this year across Verifone’s merchant network in the U.S.

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