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Are Stablecoins Eurodollars 2.0? Long Reads Sunday

19.7.2020
Long Reads Sunday features two essays previously published on CoinDesk that show the trajectory of stablecoins in the global economy in 2020

German Court Rules to Limit Authorities’ Access to People’s Data

19.7.2020
The German constitutional court has ruled that the police and intelligence officials have too much access to people’s personal mobile phone and internet data. A win for privacy activists, the court has directed the government to amend applicable laws to better protect the privacy of German...

The Origins of the World’s Oldest Bitcoin Metric, Explained

19.7.2020
Bitcoin days destroyed (BDD) was first introduced as a concept back in 2011. At the time, it had only been two years since the creation of the world’s first cryptocurrency, bitcoin. Individuals were already beginning to innovate ways to measure on-chain transaction activity and value

Social Media Is Democracy’s Faultline: The Breakdown Weekly Recap

18.7.2020
From PayPal crypto confirmed to action in central bank digital currencies, these were six themes shaping the week

Novel Charts Dark Side of ICO Mania

18.7.2020
Haydn Wilks' latest novel examines the cryptomania of the 2017 ICO boom

What If the Too-Strong Dollar Is a Solved Problem? Feat. Jon Turek

17.7.2020
Finance writer Jon Turek argues that between Federal Reserve swap lines, Europe stabilization and a few other factors, the strong dollar problem may be (temporarily) solved

38,000 People Are Watching a Fraudulent VeChain YouTube Scam Right Now

17.7.2020
38,000 viewers are reportedly tuning in to a YouTube live-stream promoting the classic “double your money” scam targeted at users of VeChain VET tokens

‘Wonder Woman’ Illustrator Jose Delbo to Release Comic Book on the Blockchain

17.7.2020
Noted DC Comics illustrator Jose Delbo is releasing limited-edition artworks on a blockchain-powered platform this month

On dependency

17.7.2020
Rob Weychert: But I can’t host your site or even my own site. I didn’t build the CMS. Other people made the hardware and software I use to generate and optimize images. Other people made the fonts. Other people standardized the digital formats for those images and fonts. I didn’t write the HTML...

What Does the Twitter Hack Mean for Bitcoin? Crypto Reacts

17.7.2020
Is the Twitter hack a watershed moment to decentralized social media? Does it reinforce negative stereotypes of Bitcoin only being used in crime? CoinDesk asked crypto luminaries to see what they think

Maybe It Wasn’t About the Money – Few People Fell for Twitter Hack, Data Indicates

16.7.2020
While the crypto wallets associated with the scam registered over 400 transactions, the attackers seem to have made away with a relatively small haul

No, the Twitter Hack Wasn’t About Bitcoin

16.7.2020
The motivations and implications of a hack that had everyone from Coinbase to Kanye shilling a scam for bitcoin

Binance CEO Criticizes Twitter Security After Coordinated Attack on Prominent Accounts

16.7.2020
Talking to CoinDesk at the World Blockchain Summit Asia on Thursday, Chanpeng "CZ" Zhao called Twitter's security "weak" after a wave of account breaches Wednesday

Massive Twitter Attack: Apple, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Uber Tweeting Bitcoin Giveaway Scam

16.7.2020
A massive attack hit crypto Twitter on Wednesday as many prominent accounts began tweeting about a bitcoin giveaway. Soon it was apparent that the breach was much more serious when major corporations and famous people tweeted that they will double your bitcoin, including Apple, Google, Joe Biden...