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

Bitcoin Going From Boiling the Oceans to Draining Them, According to Critic

A data scientist for the Dutch National Bank, Alex De Vries, claims every bitcoin transaction uses enough water to fill a swimming pool.

Swimming pool water (Aquilatin/Pixabay)

Markets

MicroStrategy Bought $600M of BTC in November, Increased Holdings by 10%

MicroStrategy is also looking to raise up to $750 million in a sale of class A common stock.

Michael Saylor (Anna Baydakova/CoinDesk)

Finance

Decentralized Infrastructure Provider Grove Raises $7.9M

Decentralized infrastructure is the use of blockchain technology and token incentives to build physical networks so other projects do not need to incur the costs of buying and running their own equipment.

two fingers adding a coin to one pile of coins among many

Markets

ARK Invest Sells Another $5M of Coinbase Shares; Buys Robinhood, SoFi

The sale of 38,668 COIN shares from the Ark Fintech Innovation ETF follows a similar offload on Monday.

Coinbase sticker on a Macintosh laptop

Finance

Blockchain Messaging Platform Wormhole Raises $225M at $2.5B Valuation

Wormhole, which was recently separated from parent Jump Trading Group after it scaled back its crypto operations, is a developer platform which allows different blockchain networks to communicate with each other.

Wormhole (Genty/Pixabay)

Finance

Digital Asset Platform Coinchange Raises $10M to Scale API Yield Service

The funding round was led by G1.VC, Spirit Blockchain, Good News Ventures, K2.CA and Atoia Ventures, with Mintfox also participating.

Coin jar (Josh Appel/Unsplash)

Finance

A16z Backs Web3 Consumer App Setter in $5M Seed Round

Setter aims to address "the complexity and unfriendliness of current wallet technologies," making entry into Web3 a more seamless experience for more users.

Setter app (Setter)

Finance

Animoca Brands Invests in TON Network, Becomes Largest Validator

The gaming and metaverse-focused firm declined to provide details of its investment.

Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands. (Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Standard Chartered China Offering Exchange Services for Digital Yuan

The bank will give customers access to the digital RBM's interconnection platform, offering recharge and redemption.

Standard Chartered (Shutterstock)

Finance

Hamas, Hezbollah Now Prefer Tron to Bitcoin: Reuters

Almost two-thirds of Israel's Tron seizures were in 2023, including 39 from wallets Israel said in June were owned by Lebanon's Hezbollah and 26 in July from Hamas ally Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

a figurative representation of a blockchain (fabio/Unsplash)