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Riccardo Spagni
3.6.2020
Riccardo Spagni, also known by his internet handle “fluffypony,” was the lead maintainer of Monero, a privacy-centric cryptocurrency project that aims to obfuscate the linkability of transactions across source, quantity, and destination. Spagni is an entrepreneur who started his career...
Pieter Wuille
3.6.2020
Pieter Wuille is the co-founder of Blockstream and a top Bitcoin core developer. Wuille is best known for developing committed libraries Segregated Witness, libsecp256k1 and BIP (bitcoin proposal) 66. Born in Belgium, Wuille discovered Bitcoin in 2010. He was working at Google in Switzerland when...
Minnesota Official Alarms Privacy Advocates With Contact Tracing Comments
3.6.2020
Comments from a Minnesota official comparing law enforcement to contact tracing alerted privacy activists to the dangers of misusing COVID-19 health data
No, Marvin Ammori, CoinDesk Is Not Trying to Extort You
2.6.2020
Marvin Ammori, Head of Policy at Protocol Labs, says his crypto hero is Hal Finney, recalls his trip to Iceland and thinks crypto should disrupt banks next
Iranian Lawmaker Says Bitcoin Should Be Central Bank’s Turf
2.6.2020
An Iranian lawmaker wants his country’s central bank to take bitcoin seriously
Caitlin Long’s Avanti Raises $5M, Submits Wyoming Banking Charter Application
2.6.2020
Crypto bank Avanti has raised an angel round from the University of Wyoming Foundation, Anthony Pompliano’s Morgan Creek Digital and other investors
Market Wrap: Traders ‘Whack the Beehive’ as Bitcoin Surges Then Plunges
2.6.2020
Bitcoin’s jump up and right back down is at least partially due to the crypto derivatives markets
The Decentralized Web Has Plans, if Not Solutions, to the Misinformation Nightmare
2.6.2020
Donald Trump's recent spat with Twitter over the limits of free speech poses a question: Could decentralized media do better? It hasn't yet, as Civil and TruStory show, but Jack Dorsey wants to test some ideas
Media Startup Civil Shuts Down, Team Absorbed Into Decentralized ID Efforts at ConsenSys
2.6.2020
Blockchain media startup Civil is shutting down after three years, with its team pivoting to building decentralized identity tools at parent firm ConsenSys
Cellphones, Bitcoin and the Citizen Tools of Anti-Authoritarianism, Feat. Alex Gladstein
2.6.2020
As protests mount in the U.S., we sit down with an outspoken pro-bitcoin, anti-surveillance human-rights advocate
Jed McCaleb
2.6.2020
Jed McCaleb is an American programmer and entrepreneur. Born in 1975, McCaleb is well-known for creating one of the first bitcoin exchanges, the now defunct bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox., which he eventually sold. He notably later co-founded blockchain companies Ripple and Stellar. McCaleb launched...
Blockchain Firms Flocked to Hong Kong in 2019: Report
2.6.2020
Blockchain firms led the charge of fintech companies that relocated to Hong Kong in 2019
Bitcoin News Roundup for June 2, 2020
2.6.2020
With the price of bitcoin briefly breaking above $10,000, CoinDesk's Markets Daily is back!
Bitcoin’s Price Drops by $800 in Less Than 5 Minutes
2.6.2020
Bitcoin's price fell more than $800 in under five minutes on Tuesday, pushing the broader cryptocurrency market into the red
Blockchain Bites: Poolin Lending, Square Crypto’s Grant and a Senate Candidate Who Holds Bitcoin
2.6.2020
Square Crypto supports Bitcoin's lightning network development, crypto mining pool Poolin expands lending and ICE is going after the petro dollar's creator
US Offers $5M Bounty for Arrest of Venezuela’s Crypto Chief
2.6.2020
The head of Venezuela's state-backed petro cryptocurrency has been added to the U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Most Wanted list
Open Interest in Ether Options Hits Record High on Deribit
2.6.2020
Derivative contracts on ether are more popular than ever, as evidenced by record open positions in options listed on the Panama-based derivatives exchange Deribit
How a Fatal Weakness Forced Libra To Capitulate
2.6.2020
While Bitcoin created an alternative financial system independent of government, Libra’s architecture depends on the existing fiat currency system – and on the whims of the governments that control it
Crypto Criminals Have Already Stolen $1.4B in 2020, Says CipherTrace
2.6.2020
The figure puts 2020 on track to become the second-costliest year in the history of crypto
First Mover: BSV Doubles in 2020 as Bitcoin Offshoot Wins Devotees
2.6.2020
The controversial cryptocurrency is winning in the crypto markets this year as developers and investors see its blockchain's technical differences as a good thing