Pete Rizzo

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Pete Rizzo was CoinDesk's editor-in-chief until September 2019. Prior to joining CoinDesk in 2013, he was an editor at payments news source PYMNTS.com.

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Bitcoin Cash Hard Forks In Bid to Ease Mining Difficulties
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Confusion and Euphoria As Bitcoin Cash Tops $30 Billion
The total value of the bitcoin cash protocol passed $30 billion this weekend, prompting a stunned reaction from the cryptocurrency community.
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Bitcoin Isn't 'Too Expensive,' Says BTCC Boss Bobby Lee
Bobby Lee, CEO of cryptocurrency exchange BTCC, spoke about buying bitcoin and China's regulatory crackdown in a speech last weekend.
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Where to, Bitcoin? Price Sees $1,000 Spread As '2x' Averted
Up, down and in between: bitcoin sought direction on Wednesday as traders looked to price in a shift in the protocol's outlook.
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Price of Success? Bitcoin Faces New Pressure in a Multi-Coin World
Day two of a popular bitcoin developer conference saw evidence the technical community is perhaps being challenged by larger changes in blockchain.
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MIT Media Lab Director: ICOs Are 'Attracting the Wrong People'
MIT Media Lab director Joi Ito is joining the ranks of outspoken critics who believe the market for blockchain-based tokens is overheated.
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Hold the Fork: No 2x But Everything Else Goes at Scaling Bitcoin Event
Day one of Scaling Bitcoin 2017 presented a change of pace for an event that grew out of the network's technical contention.
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Split or No Split? Bitcoin Miners See No Certainty in Segwit2x Fork
CoinDesk continues its Segwit2x feature series with a look at how miners view the proposal and the open questions left regarding their support.
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Understanding Segwit2x: Why Bitcoin's Next Fork Might Not Mean Free Money
CoinDesk offers a high-level overview of the coming Segwit2x fork, how it differs from the hard forks before it and what it might mean for bitcoin.
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Bitcoin Cash Developers Propose Date for November Hard Fork
The developers behind bitcoin cash are aiming to change the blockchain's rules in a software update set for November.
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