Jamie Crawley

Jamie joined CoinDesk as a news reporter in February 2021 after writing widely about crypto and blockchain for two years in other roles. Away from crypto, Jamie runs a lot and loves all things sport. He holds small amounts of BTC, ETH, ADA and LTC.

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Consensus Magazine

Opinion

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...

By Daniel Kuhn Aoyon Ashraf Jamie Crawley

Apr 18, 2024 at 8:38 p.m. UTC

Apr 18, 2024

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Finance

Tether

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).

By Jamie Crawley

Apr 18, 2024 at 11:15 a.m. UTC

Apr 18, 2024

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Ordinals and Runes creator Casey Rodarmor (rodarmor.com)

Technology

Features

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 Ru...

By Jamie Crawley

Apr 17, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. UTC

Apr 17, 2024

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Technology

Features

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 mi...

By Jamie Crawley

Apr 15, 2024 at 7:00 a.m. UTC

Apr 15, 2024

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Finance

Ton

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

By Jamie Crawley

Apr 12, 2024 at 9:35 a.m. UTC

Apr 12, 2024

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Technology

Bitcoin

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...

By Jamie Crawley

Apr 10, 2024 at 3:11 p.m. UTC

Apr 10, 2024

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Markets

Grayscale

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."

By Jamie Crawley

Apr 10, 2024 at 10:16 a.m. UTC

Apr 10, 2024

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Policy

Filecoin

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

By Jamie Crawley

Apr 9, 2024 at 9:29 a.m. UTC

Apr 9, 2024

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

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

By Jamie Crawley

Apr 8, 2024 at 12:00 p.m. UTC

Apr 8, 2024

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Finance

Galaxy digital

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.

By Jamie Crawley

Apr 5, 2024 at 3:51 p.m. UTC

Apr 5, 2024

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