Jamie Crawley

Jamie has been part of CoinDesk's news team since February 2021, focusing on breaking news, Bitcoin tech and protocols and crypto VC. He holds BTC, ETH and DOGE.

Jamie Crawley

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Policy

China Stepping Up Campaign Against Hidden Crypto Miners: Report

Inspections are being carried out across several Chinese provinces in colleges and research institutions.

BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 30, 2006

Finance

Decentraland Invests in Decentral Games to Support Metaverse Poker

The money will help fund the rollout of ICE Poker, a new virtual game.

(Keenan Constance via Unsplash)

Finance

Crypto App Abra Raises $55M to Develop High-Net-Worth, Institutional Offerings

The Series C was led by previous backers Ignia and Blockchain Capital, with Kingsway Capital and Tiga Investments listed among new investors.

Abra CEO Bill Barhydt (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Greenidge to Buy 10,000 Miners for Planned South Carolina Facility

The upstate New York-based mining firm announced Wednesday its purchase order for 10,000 S19j Pro bitcoin miners from Bitmain.

(Clint Patterson via Unsplash)

Finance

Jump Capital Raises $350M Venture Fund With ‘Increased Concentration’ on Crypto

The firm’s seventh venture fund is 75% larger than the preceding one from October 2019.

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Finance

Quantitative Trading Firm Jump Launches Crypto Division

Jump Crypto will be involved in building software infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems as well as trading and market-making activities.

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Finance

Immutable Raises $60M in Funding to Boost NFT Trading

The Ethereum Layer-2 protocol says it has created the underlying infrastructure for any business to build a game, marketplace or NFT application.

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Policy

El Salvador’s Bitcoin Wallet Is Used by More Than Half a Million People, President Says

The president also addressed the technical errors that blighted the first few days of El Salvador’s adoption of bitcoin as legal tender.

National Palace, San Salvador, El  Salvador. (Wilson Edilberto Santana Suarez/Unsplash)

Finance

Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager Steven Cohen to Invest in New Crypto Trading Firm: Report

The New York Mets owner is set to make an investment in Radkl, a new quantitative trading firm for digital assets.

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Policy

Bundesbank President Favors Limited Initial Role for Digital Euro

Jens Weidmann voiced concern that during crises consumers would hold all their money with the central bank, cutting off commercial banks’ funding.

Jens Weidmann. (Clemens Bilan/Getty Images)