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Drugs, Erratic Dismissals and Feuding Founders: Behind Bitcoin Marketplace Paxful’s Unraveling

8.4.2023
Founded in 2015, Paxful became one of the most popular places to buy bitcoin in Africa and other emerging markets, with more than 200 employees. Behind the scenes, staff took paid trips to music festivals, bosses fought, dismissals reportedly occurred on a whim and the smell of cannabis permeated...

Solana's Latest Tech Solution Aims to Dramatically Reduce On-Chain Storage Costs – Here's How it Works

7.4.2023
Popular layer-1 blockchain Solana has unveiled a new solution that will dramatically decrease the cost of storing data on-chain. In a Thursday blog post, Solana Foundation tech lead Jon Wong said the "state compression" technology would bring down the cost of minting 1 million non-fungible tokens...

Peter Schiff on the Upcoming Gold Bull Market and Wall Street: ‘It Will Be Spectacular, Capitulation Will Be Epic’

7.4.2023
Peter Schiff, economist and known gold bug, believes that the current price uptick that gold is currently experiencing will extend in the future, surprising stock traders. Schiff stated that gold stocks were the new tech stocks and that Wall Street’s indifference regarding these would lead...

Ethereum's Shanghai Upgrade Will Help Layer 2 Networks, Crypto Investor Says

6.4.2023
Max Williams, chief operating officer at Runa Digital Assets, says secondary blockchains are “already trending well” and the upgrade will spur more activity

Charles Hoskinson: Cardano delays due to betting on wrong tech, ambitious roadmap

6.4.2023
Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson is optimistic about the future of crypto despite the setbacks, and anticipates a high rate of Cardano adoption in Africa this year

Bitcoin's Tight Correlation With Tech Stocks Muddies Safe Haven Narrative

6.4.2023
Bitcoin continues to move in lockstep with the Nasdaq to S&P 500 ratio. The positive correlation suggests bitcoin is still a risk asset

Hidden Inside MacOS, the Bitcoin Whitepaper

6.4.2023
Satoshi’s vision exists in every version of MacOS from Mojave to Ventura, but is not in the older High Sierra (10.13) or earlier

Bitcoin’s whitepaper is apparently hiding in Apple’s modern macOS

6.4.2023
Apple’s Mac devices have apparently been hiding Bitcoin’s whitepaper for up to five years

Microstrategy’s Bitcoin Holdings Reach 140,000 BTC After Acquiring 1,045 More Bitcoins

5.4.2023
Nine days after publicly listed company Microstrategy purchased 6,455 bitcoins, the firm’s CEO, Michael Saylor, announced the purchase of an additional 1,045 bitcoins. The business intelligence (BI) company now holds a total of 140,000 bitcoins, worth $3.97 billion. Microstrategy Buys...

Inventor of Ethereum’s ERC-20 Token Standard Plans New Blockchain ‘LUKSO’ for Creative Types

5.4.2023
Fabian Vogelsteller is launching his new project, a layer 1 blockchain “LUKSO,” and validators will be able to join the network through the Genesis Validator Smart Contract Deposit

Citi Analyst: CBDCs Will Be a ‘Trojan Horse’ for Blockchain Adoption

5.4.2023
Future of Finance Global Head Ronit Ghose says the adoption of blockchain technology will be driven by CBDCs, digital securities and endgame tokens

MEV Blocker Wants to Help You Outrun the Front-Runners

5.4.2023
Builders behind the new utility say it will help Ethereum users avoid the scourge of MEV and earn a profit, to boot

CoinDesk’s Ethereum Validator Enters Final Weeks, Sitting on More Than $30K of Gains

5.4.2023
To better chronicle the Ethereum blockchain's transition to a proof-of-stake network, CoinDesk in 2020 started its own validator – nicknamed Zelda. We plunked down the 32 ETH (roughly $15,000 at the time) and laid the technical groundwork. With staking withdrawals due to start April 12, we take...

US President Joe Biden urges tech firms to address risks of AI

5.4.2023
President Biden urges technology companies to prioritize secure AI products before public release, stressing the need to address potential risks to society, national security and the economy

As Bitcoin Platform Paxful Closes, Co-Founder Youssef Talks Up Alternatives

5.4.2023
A whitepaper for Civilization Kit, a decentralized bitcoin peer-to-peer marketplace that also allows users to build their own decentralized marketplaces, will be published in several weeks. Noones, a new “Bitcoin peer-to-peer super app for the Global South,” is already available in private beta