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CoinDesk at WEF 2020: Crypto Themes to Watch as Davos Gets Underway
20.1.2020
Get your Fourth Industrial Revolution hardhats on. CoinDesk is at Davos to guide you through all things blockchain and crypto at the yearly confab of global leaders and their hangers-on
Decentralization Philosophy Part 1 – From Buddha to the Conquistadors
19.1.2020
Earlier this week, the Let's Talk Bitcoin! Show gathered to discuss decentralization in blockchain projects, the historical context of decentralized organizations, the robustness it conveys but also the difficulties it engenders
Timeless Web Dev Articles
18.1.2020
Pavithra Kodmad asked people for recommendations on what they thought were some of the most timeless articles about web development that have changed their perspective in some way. Fun! I'm gonna scour the thread and link up my favorites (that are actually articles, although not all of them...
Russia’s New Prime Minister Has an Opinion of Cryptocurrencies
17.1.2020
The Russian Federation has a new prime minister, Mikhail Mishustin, with a track record of statements regarding cryptocurrencies and an affection for digitalization. A stated goal of his government will be to turn the country into a digital platform “for the people.” Time will tell...
Tyrone Ross on Why Financial Advisors Are Taking Notice of DeFi
17.1.2020
Financial advisor and crypto advocate Tyrone Ross joins for hot takes on financial advisors, DeFi and the most important company in crypto
Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 17, 2020
17.1.2020
Join CoinDesk Podcast Editor Adam B. Levine and Senior Markets Reporter Brad Keoun for a daily, time saving rundown of top news impacting crypto markets today
CabbageTech CEO Sentenced to 33 Months in Prison After Pleading Guilty in Fraud Case
16.1.2020
Patrick McDonnell was sentenced to 33 months in federal prison and ordered to pay victims $225,000 after pleading guilty to charges he defrauded investors in his crypto trading platform, CabbageTech
Decred’s Akin Sawyerr Says Blockchain Is Part of Africa’s Political Future
16.1.2020
Blockchain-based governance could lead the way towards better business and political practices around the world, says investor Akin Sawyerr
Why ‘Crypto Dad’ Is Building the Digital Dollar Foundation
16.1.2020
With the proverbial digital currency barbarians at the gate, ex-CFTC chair Christopher Giancarlo launches a digital dollar initiative
The Open Index Protocol Aims to Decentralize Media
15.1.2020
Amy James' Open Index Protocol is taking aim at YouTube and Instagram
Why Crypto’s ‘Rogue State’ Narrative Is a Risk to the Industry
15.1.2020
From a North Korean blockchain conference to a sanctions-evading crypto hedge fund, does this type of activity present a narrative risk to the crypto industry as a whole?
MARKETS DAILY: Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 15, 2020
15.1.2020
With the price of bitcoin now up an astounding 23% so far in the first half of 2020, Markets Daily is back with the stories moving todays markets
In New Court Filing, Craig Wright Claims to Receive Keys to $9.6B Bitcoin Fortune
15.1.2020
Craig Wright said he received the necessary information to unencrypt the so-called “Tulip Trust.”
Mati Greenspan on the Technical and Macro Roots of Bitcoin’s Price Surge
14.1.2020
As BTC surges, is it fundamentals, technicals or macro context? Former eToro analyst Mati Greenspan breaks it down
MARKETS DAILY: Crypto News Roundup for Jan. 14, 2020
14.1.2020
With the bitcoin price up more than 6% in the last 24 hours, Markets Daily is back with news and commentary
Storming the Gates: How ‘Crypto Davos’ Became a Thing
14.1.2020
How the crypto industry can (and has) influenced the premier gathering of the world's economic and political elite
In Defence of “Serverless” —the term
14.1.2020
Ben Ellerby:
For now Serverless, to me at least, manages to do a hard job, defining the borders of a very fluid and complex space of possible solutions in which we can build next-generation architectures. It would help if there was not a framework of the same name, it would help if people didn’t...
Snowpack
14.1.2020
Snowpack. Love that name. This is the new thing from the Pika people, who are on to something. It's a bundler alternative, in a sense. It runs over packages you pull from npm to make sure that they are ES module-compatible (native imports).
This is how I digest it. When you write a line of code...
Judge Reopens Questions in Ongoing 1.1M Bitcoin Craig Wright Trial
13.1.2020
Craig Wright's court battle with the brother of deceased business partner David Kleiman reached a new level of complexity
Narrative Watch: The Hunt for Crypto’s Killer App
13.1.2020
As a Brooklyn Nets player tokenizes his contract, are income share agreements poised to break out as one of crypto’s killer apps?