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

Blockstream Preps New Sale of Notes Designed to Profit From Rebounding BTC Mining-Rig Prices

Blockstream's BASIC note is a bitcoin-denominated investment vehicle to accrue gains from the price of ASIC mining equipment, which Blockstream anticipates will rise post-halving.

ASIC Miners (Sandali Handagama/CoinDesk)

Markets

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Offloads Nearly $13M Worth of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Shares

Digital asset manager Grayscale's bitcoin investment vehicle's shares fell 8.6% Monday, reflecting the day's 5.8% drop in bitcoin.

Ark Invest CEO Cathie Wood

Tech

Decentralized Exchange Uniswap Expands to Bitcoin Sidechain Rootstock

Uniswap version 3 (v3) has been deployed on Rootstock by GFX Labs, the team behind trading terminal Oku

Uniswap booth at ETHDenver 2023 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Markets

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Sells Most Coinbase Shares Since July as Price Rises

ARK has been consistently selling Coinbase stock in recent weeks. Friday's is the largest sale since July, when it sold 480,000 shares worth $50.5 million at the time.

(Alpha Photo/Flickr)

Finance

Binance Withdraws License Application for Abu Dhabi Investment Fund

Binance determined the application was not necessary "when assessing [its] global needs." The move is unrelated to the exchange's legal settlement in the U.S.

Abu Dhabi (Kamil Rogalinski/Unsplash)

Tech

Jack Dorsey's Block Bitkey Bitcoin Wallet Comes to Market in More Than 95 Countries

The company's new self-custody wallet consists of an app, hardware device and recovery tools

Jack Dorsey speaks at Consensus 2018 (CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Project Babylon Raises $18M to Bolster Development of Staking Protocol

The fundraise was led by Polychain Capital and Hack VC and included contributions from Framework Ventures, Polygon Ventures, Castle Island Ventures and OKX Ventures.

Scattered pile of $1 bills (Gerd Altmann/Pixabay)

Markets

First Mover Americas: Crypto on the Agenda at Republican Presidential Debate

The latest price moves in crypto markets in context for Dec. 7, 2023.

Vivek Ramaswamy co-founded Strive Asset Management (Frederick Munawa)

Markets

Cathie Wood's ARK Invest Sells Another $24.3M of Coinbase Shares

Coinbase shares dropped Wednesday from the 19-month high of $147.86 earlier in the week, closing at $134.63.

Coinbase sticker on a Macintosh laptop

Tech

Bitcoin Core's 'v26.0' Upgrade Aims to Impede Eavesdropping, Tampering

The v26.0 upgrade contains experimental support for the v2 transport protocol as defined by Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 (BIP324).

Snippet of code pulled from Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324, co-authored by Dhruv Mehta. (GitHub)