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This Ethereum Lottery Perfectly Explains How Facebook’s Big Corporate Backers Will Profit from Crypto
24.6.2019
This is a post about a lossless DAI lottery called PoolTogether. But it's really about how Facebook's Libra project will make money for its big backers
Meeting Bitcoiners Online When They Live in the Same City
23.6.2019
Bitcoin developer Mark "Murch" Erhardt tells CoinDesk about the most surprising interaction he ever had in his years of running the Bitcoin Stack Exchange. Turns out the crypto world *is* that small!
Howey Schmowey – The Real Answer is to Update Securities Regulations
23.6.2019
The SEC should focus more on fraud prevention than if an asset is a security, as fraud can be committed with securities too, argues David Weisberger
Why Ethereum’s Privacy Matters and What’s Being Built to Support It
23.6.2019
With the goal of boosting adoption, these four projects are building tools that advance privacy on ethereum
Top 10 Applications That Are Pushing Lightning Network Adoption
23.6.2019
The Lightning Network has been one of the most exciting growth areas in the cryptocurrency space with a large number of new startups, projects, and applications emerging since the LN went live in early 2018.
This week, Lightning Labs, the developer of the technology, released its first Lightning...
Staking Isn’t Just a Way to Earn Crypto Money – And It Shouldn’t Be
22.6.2019
Staking is getting attention for all the wrong reasons, and it’s time to re-examine its role, argues Decred's Jake Yocom-Piatt
Crypto Wallets at the Crossroads, What it Might Mean to You?
22.6.2019
Crypto often prides itself on being open-source and community-led. However, in the case of online crypto wallets, the free-to-use model can come with a number of disadvantages.
Most notably, the lack of funding and the use of open-source code can often put wallets at a disadvantage, as demonstrated...
Under the Sign of Libra: 20 Crypto Jokes
22.6.2019
This was a massive week for crypto. The announced Libra coin, with its Colibra wallet, caused a torrent of opinions, and even some apprehension that Libra might be trying to take the Lord of the Crypto status from Bitcoin. The fact almost everybody agrees on is that, one way or another, Libra will...
Competition for Blockchain Companies: the Case of Isle of Man
20.6.2019
The flag of the Isle of Man. As more companies and investors are looking into blockchain-related opportunities, governments around the world are trying to adjust to this trend and lure as many projects as they can.
Fore example, while Lithuania is working on becoming another blockchain...
PR: WaykiChain CEO Gordon Gao Building a Win-Win Public Blockchain
18.6.2019
This article feature quotes returned direct from inquiry to the company CEO Gordon Gao. WaykiChain(WICC) CEO Gordon Gao’s credentials are substantial and they include (according to his LinkedIn page) having previously worked as a ‘senior business associate’ at Alibaba.com. His portfolio also lists...
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Wants to Take on Banks, Not Bitcoin
18.6.2019
George McDonaugh is CEO and co-founder of KR1 plc, a London listed cryptocurrency and blockchain investment company. Facebook is creating its own cryptocurrency – something that even those of us necking the crypto Kool Aid back in the early bitcoin days never in our wildest dreams thought would...
Libra White Paper Shows How Facebook Borrowed From Bitcoin and Ethereum
18.6.2019
Cryptocurrency, at scale. That's Facebook's vision as laid out in the long-awaited, just-released Libra white paper
Facebook Unveils Libra Cryptocurrency, Targeting 1.7 Billion Unbanked
18.6.2019
Facebook's newly unveiled Libra blockchain is tackling remittances at first, but it could have a much broader impact
Facebook’s Libra Cryptocurrency: A Technical Deep Dive
18.6.2019
Technical details of Facebook's Libra blockchain were published Tuesday in a white paper by the Libra Foundation. Here's what stands out
Binance Aims to Have at Least Two Exchanges per Continent
17.6.2019
Major cryptocurrency exchange Binance aims to have at least two fiat to crypto exchanges in every continent, Ted Lin, Chief Growth Officer of the company, tells Cryptonews.com.
According to him, in terms of priority, Binance prefers to go to places “where there is no existing, effective,...
Stonewalled by FINRA, Up to 40 Crypto Securities Wait in Limbo for Launch
17.6.2019
Wall Street watchdog FINRA has sat for as long as 12 months on roughly 40 broker-dealer applications by blockchain startups
Crypto Is an Important Defense Against Today’s Orwellian Surveillance
17.6.2019
An effort to change extradition laws in Hong Kong has sparked protests – and questions about digital privacy and the right to transact, writes Mike Casey
Game of Thrones Quiz Game with React and GraphQL: Getting Started with 8base
17.6.2019
8base is a Developer Acceleration Platform offering a vast selection of features to help devel
Hype or Hope? A Meeting of the Minds for the Benefit of Crypto
16.6.2019
Justin Sun’s upcoming lunch with Warren Buffett is a genius marketing play that can only help the cryptocurrency sector, writes Noelle Acheson
Crypto Trading Getting More Difficult in the U.S., What Can Be Done?
16.6.2019
Two U.S.-based exchanges have recently announced the delisting of several cryptocurrencies for U.S. customers supposedly in response to the regulatory uncertainty pertaining to what cryptoassets will be considered as securities and which ones will not by the country’s financial regulator....