Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.

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Finance

Bitcoin Mining Difficulty Surges to All-Time High, Putting Additional Squeeze on Miners

The difficulty gauge rose 13.55% from the last adjustment roughly two weeks ago, the largest such move since May 2021.

Antminer bitcoin mining rigs displayed at Consensus 2021 (Christie Harkin/CoinDesk)

Finance

Transit Finance Hacker Returns $2.74M to Victims, Sends $686K to Tornado Cash

Transit Finance hacker has sent $686,000 worth of BNB tokens to the sanctioned Tornado Cash protocol.

La billetera de criptomonedas BitKeep sufrió un hackeo de US$1 millón de tokens. (Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto Exchange FTX's Token Surges 7% After Visa Partnership Report

FTX has partnered with Visa to roll out crypto debit cards across 40 countries.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner Argo Blockchain Raises $27M to Ease Liquidity Pressures, Shares Plunge 15%

The firm has also sold 3,400 Antminer S19's to raise $7 million.

Argo Blockchain's Helios facility in Dickens County, Texas. (Argo Blockchain)

Finance

Judge Dismisses Arrest Warrant for Terra's Head of General Affairs Yu: Report

The arrest comes after the country invalidated Terra co-founder Do Kwon's passport.

The Netherlands has arrested a developer of Tornado Cash. (Shutterstock)

Finance

Crypto Lending Firm Ledn to Acquire Canadian Fund Manager Arxnovum

With the deal, Ledn will be able to offer more types of investments.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Jan Web/Unsplash)

Finance

Transit Swap Exploiter Returns Large Chunk of $28.9M Hack

Security firms help locate the hacker's IP address following the $28.9 million exploit.

(Kevin Ku/Unsplash)

Finance

Kim Kardashian Settles SEC Probe for $1.26M for Hyping EthereumMax Without Disclosing Payment

The reality TV star also agreed not to tout any cryptocurrencies for three years.

Kim Kardashian settles SEC's "token hype" probe. (Raymond Hall/GC Images)

Finance

Double Jump Tokyo to Build Blockchain-Based Games Using Sega's IP

The blockchain-based trading card game series Sangokushi Taisen, will use Japanese blockchain project Oasys.

(Unsplash)

Finance

MicroStrategy Looks to Hire Software Engineer for Building Bitcoin Lightning Network Infrastructure

The new hire will also been tasked with designing decentralized finance technologies.

Executive Chairman MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor (CoinDesk)