Ripple’s upcoming stablecoin will leverage its established position for payments and be a key bridge for real-world asset tokenization, Ripple Labs President Monica Long told CoinDesk in an interview.
The latest price moves in bitcoin (BTC) and crypto markets in context for Oct. 15, 2024. First Mover is CoinDesk’s daily newsletter that contextualizes the latest actions in the crypto markets.
The money raised will be used to advance adoption and development of Blockstream’s layer 2 technologies, to grow the company’s mining operations, and expand its bitcoin treasury.
If Vice President Kamala Harris beats Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential election, that could be good for Ethereum, though crypto is in good shape either way, Bitwise’s Matt Hougan says.
In 2013, Howells accidentally threw out the hard drive his bitcoin stash that he had mined in 2009, worth around $1 million at the time but which now would be worth over $520 million.
