Paddy Baker

Paddy Baker is a London-based cryptocurrency reporter. He was previously senior journalist at Crypto Briefing.

Paddy holds positions in BTC and ETH, as well as smaller amounts of LTC, ZIL, NEO, BNB and BSV.

Paddy Baker

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Markets

BitGo Cements Hold on Institutional Market With Lumina Acquisition

BitGo is expanding aggressively out of its core custodial business, announcing Thursday it acquired Lumina to build a tax service.

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe

Finance

Grayscale Says It Raised a Record $500M in First Quarter

The crypto investment firm says it raised almost as much in Q1 2020 as it did over the whole of 2019.

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein speaks at Consensus: Invest 2018. (CoinDesk archives)

Policy

Judge 'Puzzled' by Craig Wright's Objections to Producing Evidence of Over 1.1M Bitcoin

The judge pointed to the fact that Wright has previously been accused of abusing attorney-client privilege in the Kleiman case.

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Markets

Mystery Hacker Tries to Steal Crypto Through Fake Google Chrome Wallet Extensions

Google has removed 49 Chrome extensions masquerading as legitimate crypto wallets including Ledger, MyEtherWallet, MetaMask and Jaxx, according to MyCrypto's Harry Denley.

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Finance

Morgan Creek Invests in Startup Bringing Bitcoin to DeFi

Anthony Pompliano's investment firm has joined a seed round for Atomic Loans, a startup looking to create bitcoin-backed lending instruments.

Morgan Creek co-founder and partner Anthony Pompliano. (Credit: CoinDesk)

Markets

TradeStation Builds Out Crypto Trading Arm With ErisX Tie-Up

TradeStation only ventured into crypto trading back in May 2019.

Trading screen

Tech

Huawei, Tencent, JD.com Among Big Names on China's New Blockchain Committee

The new national blockchain committee was formed to discuss and set industry standards for distributed ledger technology.

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Policy

G20 Watchdog Warns Nations to Mitigate Risks Posed by Libra-Like Stablecoins

National regulators need to be prepared for the unique risks posed by global stablecoins, the Financial Stability Board says.

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Finance

Coronavirus Has Erased 33% of Crypto Scammers' Revenue: Chainalysis

Research firm Chainalysis found that even though crypto scammers were seeing high numbers of transactions, this year's dramatic market tumble means their actual profit was a fraction of what it used to be.

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Markets

Block.one Plans to Start Voting on EOS, the Blockchain It Birthed

Block.one says the time is right for it to take an active role in the EOS community voting for block producers.

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