COVID-19 ravaged the world’s economies but prompted mainstream financial markets to start taking bitcoin seriously. A look back at the year in bitcoin. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-prices-in-2020-heres-what-happened

Binance Pool represents 11% of Bitcoin’s mining hashrate. Adding it to the “yes” column pushes mining pool support for Taproot to about 91%. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/all-major-mining-pools-support-taproot-bitcoin-upgrade

Almost 50 monetary authorities and central banks are researching and developing wholesale or retail CBDCs. What does 2021 hold in store? Source: https://www.coindesk.com/cbdcs-time-has-come

Ripple and the SEC will meet over video call, according to a court order from the US District Court of the Southern District of New York. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/ripple-to-meet-with-sec-in-first-pretrial-conference-on-feb-22

Statechains offer another way to scale bitcoin payments and could boost privacy as well. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/statechains-scaling-solution-new-potential-bitcoin-privacy

A unit of oil and gas giant Gazprom has opened a mining venue on an oil drilling site using gas produced as a byproduct to produce electricity. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/russian-oil-drilling-giant-opens-mining-farm

Institutional investors are perceived to be driving this record-setting run. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-sets-new-all-time-high-of-28570-02-bulls-back-in-the-drivers-seat

The Times’ data included pay details for most of Coinbase’s roughly 830 employees at the end of 2018. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/coinbase-underpaid-women-black-employees-ny-times-reports

The report outlines how the researchers identified and isolated generalized front-running bots while evaluating their efficiency. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/new-research-sheds-light-front-running-bots-ethereum-dark-forest

Binance announced a $10 million fund to support projects that are built on top of the Polkadot ecosystem. Source: https://www.coindesk.com/polkadot-surges-after-binance-home-page-listing-10m-endorsement