Search
CoinDesk at 10: The Ghost of Libra Lives On
25.5.2023
Facebook’s ambitious 2019 stablecoin project never went live. But it sure left a lasting impression. This feature is part of our CoinDesk Turns 10 series looking at the biggest stories in crypto history
Centralized Exchanges Are Here to Stay
25.5.2023
DeSantis and the Growing Culture War Around Bitcoin
25.5.2023
How Crypto Can Help Secure AI
25.5.2023
Rapid advances in artificial intelligence create unique safety challenges. Can skills and approaches honed by the crypto community make AI safe for humanity?
Cathie Wood Thinks the U.S. Crypto Exodus Is Here. Is It?
24.5.2023
Strike, Coinbase and others have intimated they may leave the United States due to regulatory pressure. But those may be empty threats
Ledger's PR Struggle Reveals Uncomfortable Trade-Offs for Crypto Storage
24.5.2023
Hardware wallet maker said full open sourcing is not an option as it needs to protect the security of its chip design
ASIC Heavyweights: These Are the Most Profitable Proof-of-Work Algorithms in 2023
24.5.2023
Eight months ago, there was a significant transformation in the realm of lucrative proof-of-work (PoW) mining algorithms when Ethereum made the transition from PoW to proof-of-stake (PoS). During that period, the prevailing consensus algorithms for mining were Kadena, Scrypt, and Cuckatoo32....
Consensus Survey: TradFi Investors Remain Bullish on Crypto’s Long-Term Prospects
23.5.2023
Despite the market turmoil of the last six months, investment managers say they largely plan to keep putting capital into digital assets, our survey finds
Crypto's Open Source Ethos Yields Results
23.5.2023
It’s crypto winter and a time for building, as innovative new open-source projects on Polkadot and Cosmos can attest
Crypto Hacks Are Down and Hackers Tend to Return Stolen Money: TRM Labs Report
22.5.2023
The sanctions against Tornado Cash, as well as last year's arrest of the Mango Markets infiltrator, motivate hackers to return their loot, researchers believe
The Making of the Doge Documentary
22.5.2023
U.S. Lawmakers Can Get Crypto Regulations Right if They Act Now
22.5.2023
Why the Biggest Emerging Markets Are Turning to Crypto
22.5.2023
Many large countries around the world, including Pakistan and Nigeria, suffer currency turmoil. And, despite official efforts to curb crypto activity, there are signs their citizens are turning to crypto assets as a hedge, says Noelle Acheson
Celebrating Bitcoin Pizza Day: the Time a Bitcoin User Bought 2 Pizzas for 10,000 BTC
22.5.2023
Sen. Warren’s Bill Signals Crypto Is Headed for a Clash With National Security Interests
22.5.2023
The misguided Digital Asset Money Laundering Act sponsored by Senators Elizabeth Warren and Roger Marshall may be dead on arrival, but the crypto community should not ignore the conflict it represents between crypto and law enforcement, writes Chris Grieco
Vitalik Buterin argues against overloading Ethereum’s consensus
22.5.2023
Vitalik Buterin has come out to say that there is no need to overload the Ethereum consensus, which is already regarded as the most secure crypto-economic system globally. It houses validators with over 18 million ETH in total. This roughly translates to $34 billion in monetary value. Ethereum...
Vitalik Buterin warns against overloading Ethereum consensus
22.5.2023
Buterin has advocated preserving Ethereum consensus minimalism and not overloading validators with other things
Ledger’s Hard Lesson: Being Right Isn't Good Enough
19.5.2023
Public communication doesn’t work like computer code. The French hardware wallet maker learned that the hard way
Why Web3 and the AI-Internet Belong Together
19.5.2023
Seeing crypto and AI as unrelated technologies is a mistake. They are complementary, each improving the other, says CoinDesk’s Chief Content Officer, Michael Casey
Is Ledger’s New Bitcoin Key Recovery Feature Safe? Experts Have Doubts
19.5.2023
Ledger believes the service will help attract customers turned off by crypto's unforgiving self-custody ethos. But critics wonder whether the concept is compatible with a real hardware wallet