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Markets

Bitcoin May Follow Gold With Significant Price Breakout

Bitcoin looks set to take a page out of gold's book and confirm a price breakout on the weekly chart.

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Markets

Bitcoin Hits New 2020 High Above $8,400 After Iranian Missile Attack

Bitcoin’s price has hit a new record for 2020, reaching as high as $8,438 before retracing slightly.

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Markets

Bitcoin Probes Major Resistance After 15 Percent Price Rally

Bitcoin's recent gains have led to a bullish chart breakout and brought a key long-term price resistance into play for the first time in over two months.

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Tech

Bitcoin Mining Power Hits Fresh All-Time High

Bitcoin's hash rate reached record highs this week, amid rising prices and anticipation of the miner reward halving later this year.

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Markets

Bitcoin Eyes Price Breakout Amid US-Iran Tensions

Bitcoin is drawing bids amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty and could soon rise above key resistance at $7,580, confirming a short-term bullish breakout.

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Markets

We Still Don't Know Bitcoin's Real Volume

CoinDesk Research analyst Galen Moore unpacks the differences in reported trading volumes from three major data aggregators.

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Markets

Bitcoin Jumps 5%, Gaining With Gold, After US Kills Top Iranian Official

Bitcoin jumped the most in two weeks after a U.S. drone strike killed a top Iranian military commander, fueling speculation that heightened geopolitical turmoil might spur demand for the cryptocurrency in 2020.

Parade of military forces, along with photographs of Qasem Soleimani, Tehran, Iran, May 31, 2019. (Image via Shutterstock)

Finance

American Cancer Society Now Accepting Bitcoin Donations Through BitPay

“Our mission is urgent and in order to accomplish it, we need to engage donors where they are.”

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Tech

Hanukkah Reflections on My Year of Toying With Bitcoin

‘Tis the season for introspection. And this year, my thoughts are on bitcoin.

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Tech

'Multi-Part' Payments Could Bring Bigger Bitcoin Sums to Lightning Network

With its latest "major release," bitcoin tech startup Blockstream said its c-lightning software team is the first to release a working version of "multi-part payments."

Blockstream's Christian Decker at Construct 2019, image via CoinDesk archives