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Blockchain Projects Work Better When Everyone Collaborates
16.12.2019
To reach its potential, blockchain needs to support inclusion and avoid power consolidation, says the head of blockchain at the World Economic Forum
Musicians Want to Break Free of Big Tech
16.12.2019
Decentralized platforms are the best means to solve equity problems in creative industries
Regulatory Roundup: Crypto ‘Inevitable’ in India, China Rankings, NY Streamlines Policy
16.12.2019
In this regulatory roundup, we cover a positive crypto story in India, China’s year-end rankings, and the European Central Bank entering the stablecoin race. We also cover the New York regulator’s proposed Bitlicense revision — the first in five years — and several other...
Bitcoin Has Got Society to Think About the Nature of Money
16.12.2019
2020 may be the year we see the value of infrastructure built in response to bitcoin and the energy around blockchain
A Year After Bottoming Out at $3,100, Bitcoin is Up 127%
16.12.2019
Bitcoin bears have dominated the second half of this year, but the cryptocurrency is still up 127% year on year
Dissidents and Activists Have a lot to Gain From Bitcoin, if Only They Knew It
15.12.2019
Bitcoin is working as Satoshi intended and already helps people facing repression. The problem is, many others don’t know about it yet
How DeFi Goes Mainstream in 2020: Focus on Usability
15.12.2019
DeFi and cryptocurrencies can go mainstream, but they need to be as easy to use as Facebook or Google
In 2019, Students Demanded Blockchain Education. In 2020, It’s Coming
15.12.2019
Student blockchain groups are popping up across the country, but student enthusiasm is not always backed by institutional buy-in
Even if a Thousand Projects Don’t Make It, Blockchain Is Still a Change Catalyst
15.12.2019
While we wait for crypto/blockchain success stories, it's already apparent that Satoshi's innovation is a change agent
At a Refugee Camp in Iraq, a 16-Year-Old Syrian Is Teaching Crypto Basics
15.12.2019
Here's what an unbanked refugee really thinks about crypto
European AML Directive Pushes Crypto Startup Bottle Pay Out of Business
15.12.2019
Bottle Pay, a cryptocurrency payments provider from the U.K., has announced its decision to cease operations by the end of the year. Despite attracting some serious funding and expanding its user base significantly in the past few months, the company has found it unacceptable to continue to work...
The Great Crypto Experiment Continues
14.12.2019
It wasn't a year for regulatory clarity, huge investments or mass adoption. Yet crypto still progressed
Change Won’t Happen With Chairman Clayton Around: Kristin Smith
14.12.2019
A lobbyist surveys current attitudes towards blockchain in Washington D.C
Change Won’t Happen With Chairman Clayton Around: Kristin Smith
14.12.2019
A lobbyist surveys current attitudes towards blockchain in Washington D.C
Lessons From the First Digital Gold Boom
14.12.2019
Long before crypto, there was digital gold. The boom of the mid-1990s has echoes for today
Meet Crypto’s New Best Friend: Fiat
14.12.2019
Fiat and crypto are not enemies. They are complementary in any effective trading ecosystem
US Fed to Print $425B for New Year’s — 3 Times Bitcoin’s Market Cap
14.12.2019
The Fed prepares to do banks a $425 billion Christmas favor as proponents of sound money look on in horror
Quadrigacx Founder Dead or Alive? Request for Exhumation and Autopsy Filed
14.12.2019
It has been a year since the founder of now-defunct crypto exchange Quadrigacx supposedly died in India. However, some 76,000 victims are still out of millions of dollars. A court-appointed lawyer representing them has now requested an exhumation and post-mortem autopsy in Canada of the dead body...
The Country With Europe’s Highest Interest Rate Has Cut It 5 Times This Year
14.12.2019
Around half of European countries, over 20, now have 0% interest rates and a few are already in negative territory. Ukraine, which has the highest benchmark interest rate on the continent, has just reduced it again, for the fifth time this year. The race between central banks to cut rates, when...
Blue Beanie Day 2019
13.12.2019
November 30th, the official "Blue Beanie Day," has come and gone. I'm not sure I ever grokked the exact spirit of it, but I've written about what it means to me. Last year:
Web standards, as an overall idea, has entirely taken hold and won the day. That's worth celebrating, as the web would...