With all the media attention on the shortage of hospital beds and medical supplies, it’s not often that you hear an uplifting headline. Well, crypto community, chin up. Ripple Labs Chairman Chris Larsen has made a full recovery from COVID-19. And he’s encouraging others who have to donate their blood. Chris Larsen Makes a ‘Full
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Bitcoin’s on-chain activity has been on the rise throughout the past few months, marking a massive surge from where it was this time last year. This is a sign of intense fundamental strength, as it shows that more entities and individuals are interacting with the BTC network at a greater rate than seen during last
Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s note The U.S.–China trade war continues its brazen spillover into tech. In response to concerns over where data from TikTok and WeChat was going, President Trump sent out twin executive orders banning both applications last
Dapper Labs has closed a $12 million funding round led by National Basketball Association (NBA) stars Spencer Dinwiddie, Andre Iguodala, JaVale McGee, Aaron Gordon and Garrett Temple, according to a press release shared with CoinDesk. The funds will be used for further development of blockchain games including the eventual launch of NBA Top Shot out
Digital assets appeared to be leaving India behind. Just four years after the advent of Bitcoin, hopes of a thriving crypto-economy in one of the world’s most populated countries were fading rapidly. “Regulation comes only when people are doing certain business, and we come to understand that something wrong is happening,” said the Reserve Bank
“If you’d asked people in the late 1800’s what they wanted, they’d have wanted a faster horse and buggy. They didn’t know they wanted a car.” IDEX co-founder and CEO Alex Wearn is partial to the Warthog. Driving around in Master Chief’s weaponized vehicle brings back fond memories of playing “way too much” Halo during
Each week we ask the buidlers in the blockchain and cryptocurrency sector for their thoughts on the industry… and we throw in a few random zingers to keep them on their toes! This week our 6 Questions go to Paul Veradittakit, a Partner at Pantera Capital. Pantera Capital is one of the earliest and largest
The U.S. Federal Reserve has been contemplating a change in the way it responds to a possible increase in inflation. Previously, the Fed would kickstart tightening if its models forecast a 2% inflation increase. However, this time, the Fed wants to allow inflation to stay above their 2% target before raising rates. Morgan Creek’s Anthony
Adam Back recently took to Twitter with controversial comments on many of the industry’s largest crypto projects — including Ethereum (ETH), Cardano (ADA), Ripple (XRP), and Stellar (XML). His tweets placed these projects in the same category as a number of bonafide scams, which he considers to have been orchestrated as “premines”. We interviewed Back
Rep. Nathan Toman says that he desires a “North Dakota coin” He believes that such an asset could potentially help the struggling economy in the wake of COVID-19, an Aug. 7 article from Inforum said. ”That was my hope, but we’re a little bit late to the game on doing something like that,” Toman told Inforum
The dollar has been in sharp decline. Analysts are calling for the global reserve to lose its crown to the likes of Bitcoin or the yuan. Sentiment has reached substantial lows. However, when dollar sentiment fell this low in the past, it often triggered a strong reversal in the currency. Such a reversal, if it
August 6, Monero (XMR) has experienced its biggest increase in hashrate since the network’s creation in 2014. Monero hashrate. Source: Coin Metrics. The Monero hashrate increased from 1.67 GH/s on August 5 to 2.2 GH/s on August 6. That 0.52 GH/s single day gain is the highest in the project’s history. Prior to this, most
Most of us will be dead by then. Projected to happen in the year 2106, Bitcoin will suddenly stop running based on the code its network of users is running today. Users won’t be able to send bitcoin to others; miners securing Bitcoin’s global network will no longer serve a purpose. Bitcoin will just stop.
Crypto mining in Iran is set to become even bigger with the government giving the green light for power plants to mine cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC). The news is the latest piece of positive development on the virtual currency mining front to come out of the country in the last year. Since legalizing crypto mining
In the past couple of weeks, the Bitcoin (BTC) price has resurged after months of apparent monetary stagnation. Since July 23, the value of a single Bitcoin has risen by around 20%. Not only that, after trading sideways since its supply squeeze in early May, the premier currency broke through its all-important $10,000 psychological threshold,