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12 Ways Web3 Media Could Embrace AI
7.6.2023
From chatbots to deep blockchain data analysis, artificial intelligence can help Web3 news organizations function. But there are plenty of pitfalls too
The SEC Is Fighting the Last War
7.6.2023
SEC chair Gary Gensler wants you to think Coinbase and Binance are the same as FTX and Celsius. They’re not
The Petrodollar and Its Discontents Point to Bitcoin's Role in the Financial Future
7.6.2023
Recent moves by Saudi Arabia, Russia and China have raised fears that the U.S. dollar could lose its preferred status for oil trading. And yet alternative national currencies aren’t that appealing. Could a Bitcoin-like currency do better?
Crypto Needs to Be Private by Default, Some Consensus 2023 Guests Say
7.6.2023
Participants at Consensus 2023 describe the tension between the need for privacy, transparency and regulation in crypto and DeFi in an excerpt from CoinDesk’s first-ever Consensus @ Consensus Report
No More FTXs! Consensus 2023 Attendees Discuss Future of Crypto Custody
7.6.2023
FTX's collapse reignites the self-custody debate with Consensus 2023 attendees in an excerpt from CoinDesk’s first-ever Consensus @ Consensus Report
Atomic Wallet Was Breached by North Korean Hackers: Elliptic
7.6.2023
Wallets that siphoned Atomic users' funds are connected to the known Lazarus group's addresses, crypto tracing firm said
Gary Gensler’s Evolving Position on Crypto – in Quotes
6.6.2023
The SEC chair has gone from supporting the technology at MIT to a full-swing offensive on the crypto industry
Are Centralized Exchanges in the U.S. Doomed?
6.6.2023
With the SEC’s Binance and Coinbase lawsuits, the agency is signaling it really is now or never to “come into compliance.”
How to Build a Compliant Crypto Exchange Post-Coinbase
6.6.2023
Crypto isn’t going anywhere — though Coinbase might — so what the market needs is a fresh start: new exchanges that can avoid the ever-present threat of SEC enforcement by being structured correctly in the first place, writes Preston Byrne
How the Metaverse May Revolutionize the Creator Economy
6.6.2023
Consensus 2023 attendees unpack the future of Web3 and its implications for creator-first digital economies in an excerpt from CoinDesk’s first-ever Consensus @ Consensus Report
If Crypto Wants Institutional Dollars, It Needs an ESG Game Plan: Consensus 2023 Attendees
6.6.2023
Attendees at Consensus 2023 argue that the crypto industry should embrace ESG and not hide from it in an excerpt from CoinDesk’s first-ever Consensus @ Consensus Report
The Lightning Network Doesn’t Fix Everything Wrong With Bitcoin
5.6.2023
And that’s okay
Privacy Concerns Dominate CBDC Discussion at Consensus 2023
5.6.2023
Some Consensus 2023 participants argue that the economic benefits of CBDCs are not worth the threats to privacy in an excerpt from CoinDesk’s first-ever Consensus @ Consensus Report
Introducing CoinDesk’s First-Ever ‘Consensus @ Consensus’ Report
5.6.2023
Based on intimate, curated group discussions that took place at Consensus 2023, it covers a wide range of pressing issues for the digital assets industry
Bridge Exploits Cost $2B in 2022, Here’s How They Could Have Been Averted
2.6.2023
The bridges that are essential to our multi-chain cryptoverse are vulnerable to hacks. But an analysis of some of the biggest exploits of the past year reveals that applying multiple security measures in combination could have blocked the attacks, writes Gnosis co-founder Martin Koppelmann
What AI Governance Can Learn From Crypto’s Decentralization Ethos
2.6.2023
Prominent critics of AI development are calling for government intervention to stave off the threat of human extinction. But we need more than centralized regulation of this industry, argues Michael J. Casey
Apple and Goldman Sachs Don’t Trust Their New Banking Customers
2.6.2023
“Security Reviews” are locking up Apple Savings accounts for weeks on end, as a blunt-force anti-money laundering system turns customers into suspects
CoinDesk Turns 10: 2015 – Vitalik Buterin and the Birth of Ethereum
2.6.2023
The most used blockchain is supposed to be immutable. So why has it changed so much from its founding?
Quantum Computing Meets Blockchain: Scientists Propose New Version of Proof of Work Consensus – Future of Crypto?
2.6.2023
A newly published research paper from a team of researchers from Australian and American universities, in collaboration with quantum technology company BTQ, has proposed a new approach to the proof-of-work (PoW) consensus mechanism based on boson sampling.
The proposed proof-of-work system, known...
Scientists propose quantum proof-of-work consensus for blockchain
1.6.2023
Boson sampling was once considered a problem looking for a solution. Now, it might be the bridge that brings quantum computing to the blockchain