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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Consensus Magazine

This Bitcoin Halving Is Different. But Is It 'Priced In'?

Institutions launching bitcoin ETFs this year have buoyed the bitcoin price to record levels. Does that mean the impact of the halving — the four-year slashing of the bitcoin reward — could be relatively muted?

(Giovanni Calia/Unsplash)

Finance

Tether Reorganizes Into 4 Divisions as It Expands Beyond Stablecoins

The company has formed four divisions to reflect its broadening focus: Data, Finance, Power and Edu(cation).

Tether 's logo painted on a wooden background.

Tech

Runes, Casey Rodarmor's Protocol for 'Sh*tcoins' on Bitcoin, Set to Go Live at Halving

Rodarmor created last year's breakout Ordinals protocol, which is used to create non-fungible tokens (NFTs) on Bitcoin. Now, he says the relevance of protocols like his new Runes, used to create fungible tokens, is set to grow.

Ordinals and Runes creator Casey Rodarmor (rodarmor.com)

Tech

Bitcoin Halving Has Crypto Miners Racing for 'Epic Sat' Potentially Worth Millions

Bitcoin's once-every-four-years "halving" this week may be very different from those of earlier epochs, typically ho-hum affairs. Now, an intense competition is underway to mine the first block after the halving, which could contain a rare and collectible fragment of a bitcoin known as an "epic sat."

16:9 Treasure chest (Ashin K Suresh/Unsplash)

Finance

TON Foundation Teams Up With HashKey to Drive Crypto On-Ramping in Telegram

HashKey and the Foundation are focussing their partnership on Hong Kong in the first phase

Toncoin rises amid potential Telegram IPO (Christian Wiediger/Unsplash)

Tech

Alpen Labs Looks to Scale Bitcoin With Zero-Knowledge Proofs Using $10.6M Funding

Alpen Labs has emerged from stealth mode following the funding round, having spent the last year developing Bitcoin rollup infrastructure to bring smart contract functionality to the network

16:9 Alps mountains (Simon Fitall/Unsplash)

Markets

Grayscale CEO Says Bitcoin ETF Outflows Are Reaching Equilibrium: Reuters

Michael Sonnenshein said that some of the selling connected to settlements of bankrupt crypto companies like FTX is "largely behind us."

Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk)

Policy

Filecoin Liquid Staking Platform STFIL Claims Team Members Under Investigation by Chinese Police

Tokens on the platform were moved to an "unknown, external address" last week while its team members were under detention

magnifying glass, investigation (Shutterstock)

Finance

Crypto VC Firm Polychain Tops Up AI Platform Ritual's $25M Funding Round With 'Multimillion Dollar' Investment

Blockchain firms are attempting to address concerns that Big Tech giants like Microsoft, Meta and Alphabet will build an artificial-intelligence oligarchy

Polychain CEO Olaf Carlson-Wee (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

DWS, Galaxy Digital List Exchange-Traded Commodities Offering BTC, ETH Exposure in Germany

The products, which track the performance of the two largest cryptocurrencies by market value, carry a fee of 0.35% and were listed on the Deutsche Boerse on Thursday.

Frankfurt, Germany (Sinan Erg/Unsplash)