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How to Protect Your Crypto From Cyber Attacks During COVID-19
9.5.2020
At-home working opens up security issues for crypto. Oxford University researcher (and Consensus speaker) David Shrier outlines ways to mitigate the risk
The CoinDesk 50: Bitmain, the Behemoth of Bitcoin Mining
9.5.2020
Bitmain remains at the center of the crypto economy. But, in China, "mining avengers" are racing to catch up
Michelle Phan: The Beauty of Bitcoin
9.5.2020
Why beauty mogul Michelle Phan says her 8.9 million YouTube subscribers are ready for bitcoin: "They want to know how to protect their purchasing power."
The Global Contenders Trying to Displace the Dollar
8.5.2020
Could the dollar be replaced by a single new dominant currency like China’s DCEP, or is a multipolar currency world more likely?
Bitcoin in Emerging Markets: Latin America
8.5.2020
Crypto adoption is up from Argentina to Venezuela, especially bitcoin and stablecoins like dai. But each market is unique
The Changemaker: Glen Weyl Puts His Radical Ideas Into Action
7.5.2020
RadicalxChange, the civics network founded by polymath economist Glen Weyl, isn't left or right exactly, but it is radical. Now governments are starting to adopt its ideas
Blockchain Bites: Introducing the CoinDesk 50 and a Roadmap to Consensus: Distributed
7.5.2020
In the news: a new blockchain voting proposal, Cash App's bitcoin profits and why we're sooner having a halving
How We’re Raising the Virtual Bar at Consensus: Distributed
7.5.2020
Over 10,000 attendees worldwide have registered for our marquee event, which goes fully virtual next week
The CoinDesk 50: Binance Eyes the Whole Pie
7.5.2020
Binance, #1 on the new CoinDesk 50 list, continues to move aggressively after the biggest opportunities in crypto
The CoinDesk 50: Cosmos and the Dream of Anti-Maximalism
7.5.2020
In an industry known for tribalism and infighting, Cosmos is banking on everyone else’s success. That's why it's on the new CoinDesk 50 list
How We Chose the CoinDesk 50
7.5.2020
The CoinDesk 50 is an annual selection of the most innovative, consequential and viable projects in the crypto-blockchain industry
The CoinDesk 50
7.5.2020
The CoinDesk 50 is an annual selection of the most innovative and consequential projects in the crypto-blockchain industry
4 Ways COVID-19 Will Bring Banks and Regulators to Crypto
5.5.2020
Consensus:Distributed speaker and CoinDesk columnist Ajit Tripathi argues the pandemic will normalize the use of CBDCs and cryptocurrencies
The Man Who Forecast a Currency Cold War
5.5.2020
David Birch's book "The Currency Cold War" foresees a world of competing digital currencies. COVID-19 brings that future closer, he says
Marketing Ethereum 2.0 and Herding Cats With Hudson Jameson
4.5.2020
CoinDesk's Nolan Baurle speaks with the Ethereum Foundation's Hudson Jameson about private transactions, client improvements, dealing with FUD on Ethereum and more
Bitcoin in Emerging Markets: The Middle East
4.5.2020
Regions with weak states and educated diasporas are seeing a rising demand for cryptocurrencies, stablecoins and decentralized applications
Facebook's Calibra Team Introduces A Novel Distributed Audit Protocol
2.5.2020
Facebook’s Calibra team introduces a new protocol for distributed auditing of assets that could have saved Mt. Gox
Banking the Unbanked: How the Crypto Community Can Make a Big Impact
30.4.2020
For tech-savvy young adults in communities often overlooked by traditional big business, the crypto and blockchain industry offers opportunities that others don't
OpenLaw Launches First ‘Legal DAO’ for Distributed VC Investments
28.4.2020
OpenLaw’s LAO, or “Limited Liability Autonomous Organization,” opened Tuesday for investors looking to compliantly earn returns on the next wave of Ethereum-based projects
CoinDesk Live: Understanding Our Digital Personas feat. Alex McDougall
21.4.2020
“If we don’t fix the data paradigm...we don’t really have free will,” says Alex McDougall of Bicameral Ventures