The first woman to gain more than a million YouTube subscribers is now going all-in on bitcoin to promote financial freedom to her loyal fanbase. “I kind of view bitcoin as similar to YouTube, which…
Bitcoin.com Announces Cooperation Agreement With Japanese Media CoinOtaku
PRESS RELEASE. Bitcoin.com, the go-to web portal for everything bitcoin, announced it reached a cooperation agreement with Japanese media CoinOtaku. A subsidiary of Beat Holdings Limited, CoinOtaku (CoinPartner) has over 900,000 views per month in…
Curate, Next Generation Yield Farming
PRESS RELEASE. Curate decentralized platform has set the goal of maximizing the DeFi potential. The main task is to create a complete platform autonomy with a gradual transition to self-management by community members. Curate is…
Multisig Coordination Software Nunchuk Releases Its Code
Recently-launched Bitcoin wallet Nunchuk announced today that it is making its application library, libnunchuk, open source and available to the public. Nunchuk describes its mission as “the proliferation of multisig” and attempts to make multisig…
World Economic Forum calls blockchain key to sustainable…
The World Economic Forum, or WEF, believes that blockchain represents a core element of sustainable digital finance — a new paradigm that combines emerging technology with environmentally conscious business models. In a new report published…
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Path to $20K, Ethereum’s ‘Unannounced’…
Ethereum’s Infura went down, causing a chain split. The world’s second-largest bank will issue $3 billion in blockchain bonds. President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team features some noted crypto commenters. Top shelf Chain splitWednesday morning, around…
As Bitcoin price rises, institutions get down with…
With Bitcoin (BTC) price sentiment continuing to remain bullish following the uncertainty brought on by the United States presidential election, institutional investors seem to be getting more interested in betting on the markets. In the…
Video: Valiu And Protecting Wealth In South America
Listen To This Episode: On this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, host Christian Keroles sits down with Simon Chamorro to discuss Valiu, a tool for protecting Colombian pesos from inflation and remit funds to…
Video: “Cypherpunks Write Code” And The Precursors Of…
Listen To This Episode: In this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, Technical Editor Aaron van Wirdum speaks with Jim Epstein, the executive editor of Reason TV. Epstein recently produced a documentary miniseries on the…
Are STOs and Crowdfunding Making a Comeback? CoinMetro’s…
We recently had an opportunity to chat with Kevin Murcko, the CEO of CoinMetro — a leading cryptocurrency exchange and trading platform. As a part of our conversation, we asked Kevin a few questions regarding…
Pewdiepie Joins the Blockchain AR Game Wallem, Players…
The world-famous gamer and Youtuber, Pewdiepie is getting involved with another blockchain project called Wallem, a 3D augmented reality video game that uses non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for skins and items. The game also rewards players…
Avanti Bank Launches
Avanti Bank & Trust has been granted a bank charter by the Wyoming State Banking Board today following a unanimous vote, per an announcement from the company. “Avanti’s mission is to provide a compliant bridge…
The Most Secure Cryptocurrency Wallets for Different Users
Cryptocurrencies have the potential to disrupt traditional finance, by allowing people to retain full control over their assets at all times — without relying on centralized intermediaries like banks and governments. But despite their potential,…
Awesome interactive NFT artwork shows effects of sponsoring…
A former baseball player has created a non-fungible token, time-sensitive artwork piece that allows crypto holders to donate Bitcoin to enable two African American boys to fulfill their dreams. According to a representative for the…
How a Decentralized Internet Can Power Latin America’s…
It’s no secret Latin America’s economy is not in great shape compared to other regions. There isn’t any single reason for this. You could point to a dependence on commodity exports and its booms and…
Spotify competitor Audius airdrops $8M of tokens to…
The crypto-powered Spotify competitor Audius has retroactively distributed 50 million of its native AUDIO tokens to artists and listeners using the platform. The distribution came alongside the launch of the AUDIO governance token on the…
Video: Printing Is The Plague, Bitcoin Is The…
In this episode of the Bitcoin Magazine Podcast, CK sits with Thib Maréchal to discuss the history of money printing and how Bitcoin offers humanity a solution to this great plague. Thib, who works at…
Five On-Chain Indicators Investors Should Follow: Chainalysis
Analyzing cryptocurrency markets may seem easier than traditional markets because blockchain technology has more built-in transparency, enabling anyone to analyze and audit on-chain data. Simultaneously, however, there are challenges to zeroing in on forward-looking numbers…
Coinend: 1,2,3 Take off – New Gamified Crypto…
Coinend has announced the launch of its cryptocurrency gamified platform. GPC DIGITAL S.A operates this cryptocurrency-based gamified prediction portal, a corporation incorporated in Panama. It allows users to predict the closing price based on hourly,…
Video: The Fed Considers CBDCs And Bretton Woods…
Where to listen: The IMF panel on cross-border payments was a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) discussion in disguise, headlined by Jerome Powell, chairman of the Federal Reserve. The CBDC narrative is the central bank…
Introducing The Best Of Bitcoin Magazine
Since 2012, Bitcoin Magazine has been providing insight, analysis and thought leadership about the Bitcoin space — the first publication of any kind to commit to doing so. Thanks to some prescience about how truly revolutionary…
Monetary Stability: The IMF and Fed Chair Jerome…
On Monday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published a report on crypto assets like central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and global stablecoins (GSCs). Moreover, the IMF also hosted a virtual panel that discussed digital currencies…
Cryptocurrency ETFs: SEC Wants to Facilitate Tokenized Products
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) wants to facilitate tokenized exchange-traded funds (ETFs), according to chairman Jay Clayton. The agency is collaborating with other U.S. regulators to determine how to regulate different crypto products.…
Money Reimagined: How Ethereum 2.0’s ‘Lockup’ Will Drive…
The “Summer of DeFi” might be over, but a looming event will give DeFi engineers a great incentive to crank up their “lego” innovation model and build more decentralized finance products: the Ethereum 2.0 upgrade. (See…
Breitling to Combat Fake Watches Using Ethereum-Based Digital…
Swiss luxury watchmaker Breitling, known for its aviation chronometers, has enlisted help from Ethereum in fighting the fakers. In conjunction with the Paris-based digital identity firm Arianee, the Breitling Top Time (reference A23310121G1X1), which launched…
Blockchain Bites: Filecoin’s Mainnet, M&A’s Upswing, Tarbert’s Environmental…
Crypto M&A is up, CoinList set a record mint of wrapped bitcoin and the CFTC Chairman is “impressed” with Ethereum. Not to mention, Filecoin has pivoted to mainnet. Top shelf Filecoin fliesThe Filecoin network mainneted at 14:44…
NFT and crypto art can magnify the truth…
Earlier this month, Christie’s auction house announced the sale of a digital portrait of the Bitcoin code for more than $130,000 when the first estimated price was $12,000–$18,000. It was the first time a nonfungible…
Bitcoin runs crypto markets, but DeFi tokens don’t…
Decentralized exchanges have been around for a while now, but it’s only been since the grip of decentralized finance mania has taken hold that they’ve come into their own. The growth in DEX use has…
Crypto For Congress Puts “American-Made” Bitcoin Into The…
This week, the Chamber of Digital Commerce sent all 535 members of the United States Congress about 0.0047 BTC ($50 worth at the time), in an effort to educate the country’s legislators around cryptocurrency and…
Blockchain Bites: Ethereum’s Economy, Estonia’s CBDC Research, Coinbase’s…
CoinDesk is preparing for invest: ethereum economy with a special series of newsletters focused on Ethereum’s past, present and future. Every day until the event, the team behind Blockchain Bites will dive into an aspect of Ethereum that excites…
Crypto for Congress: Bitcoin Sent to All Congress…
The Crypto for Congress initiative has launched. All members of Congress will be given bitcoin as campaign contributions to help them learn about cryptocurrency. The initiative is supported by Congressional Blockchain Caucus members, including pro-crypto…
Video: Fed Watch — Economic Crisis Analysis With…
On the latest episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s Fed Watch podcast series, the hosts are joined by one of the great macro pundits of the last few years, Lyn Alden. Alden has a fantastic grasp on…
YUSRA Global: A Superior Blockchain Ecosystem that Meets…
It is not a secret that most of the existing cryptocurrencies have plenty of shortcomings preventing them from being used as the absolute replacement to traditional financial instruments and legacy systems that manage these instruments.…
Investment Potential of NFTs Continues to Divide Opinion
Many are pushing non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as the next big thing in cryptocurrency. While market uncertainty continues to reigns, in particular DeFi markets, which have failed to recapture the levels seen before the recent slump,…
Leading Auction House Christie’s Listing Bitcoin Art for…
The world’s largest auction house, Christie’s, will be presenting Bitcoin artwork for the first time. Block 21 of “Portraits of a Mind,” an art project showcasing the original Bitcoin code by Satoshi Nakamoto, will include…
Report: Blockchain Patents ‘Skyrocket’ in 2020, Alibaba Owns…
A study from the team at Kisspatent shows that Alibaba Group is the largest blockchain patent holder in 2020 capturing 10x the number of patents held by IBM. The report notes that blockchain patents “are…
Bitcoin Unlimited Launches Two-Option Voting App Powered by…
On September 16, the Bitcoin Unlimited development team launched a new application called Votepeer. The software is powered by the Bitcoin Cash network and allows anyone to set up a transparent two-option voting process. This…
How The Xi Pump of 2019 Backs Up…
Several signs now suggest that Bitcoin’s recent pump to $11,000 that failed to hold could have been a bearish retest and rejection from support turned resistance. And while a bullish retest taking place at the…
Say Hello to the Singularity
The current blockchain world is so full of crazy ups and downs, it’s easy to become so focused on the short term that one loses track of the big picture. But it’s important to fight…
African traders least likely to fall for crypto…
Blockchain forensics firm Chainalysis has found that crypto traders in Africa are less likely to have sent tokens to, or received tokens from, known scam addresses than traders in other regions in the past year.…
Blockchain Bites: The SEC’s Chilling Effect on Crypto…
A slew of regulatory happenings are in the works. First, the Bahamian central bank plans to issue the first CBDC this October while the Indian legislative body is considering a ban on crypto trading. Further,…
How banks are integrating crypto AML software for…
With the exposure of traditional banks and financial institutions to crypto-assets and all the risks involved, as well as the continued advice from governmental authorities to banks to integrate a crypto risk management system, what…
New Blockchain Organization Launched to Strengthen Ties with…
A new group dubbed the “Ticino Blockchain Technologies Association” has recently been launched in partnership with a number of companies within the blockchain space as well as two academic entities. According to a statement published…
Investing in DeFi? Bet on diversification, not short-term…
The decentralized finance space has grown exponentially over the last few months, to the point where more than $9 billion worth of crypto assets were locked in its protocols before crypto prices started dropping. The…
DeFi mainstreaming impossible until DEXs integrate layer 2,…
The rapid growth of the decentralized finance sector (DeFi) took a shock after the recent 17.5% drop in Bitcoin (BTC) price. However, it is likely that the DeFi sector will continue to grow as Bitcoin…
First Mover: DeFi ‘Vampire’ SushiSwap Sucks $800M from…
You’re reading First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily markets newsletter. Assembled by the CoinDesk Markets Team and edited by Bradley Keoun, First Mover starts your day with the most up-to-date sentiment around crypto markets, which of course never…
Blockchain Battle With China Ensues With New US…
Members of the US Congress have sponsored a non-partisan bill in the hopes of catching up with China’s blockchain development. The “American Competitiveness Of A More Productive Emerging Tech Economy Act,” or COMPETE Act for…
Powering DeFi market: Overview of the top 5…
One of the most groundbreaking advancements to come out from within the realm of blockchain technology is the concept of a decentralized exchange. In its most basic form, a DEX can be thought of as…
Major Swiss Insurer Adds Bitcoin and Ether Payments
Atupri, a Swiss health insurance provider, said Monday that its 200,000 customers will now be able to make payments using bitcoin and ethereum. The 110-year old firm claims it is the “first” insurer in Switzerland…
YFI surges to $38K, BTC comeback predictions, Ryanair…
Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. Top Stories This Week YFI price soars to $38,800 hitting $1 billion market cap —…
Digital Currency Group Pledges $100 Million to Bolster…
The firm Digital Currency Group (DCG) is entering the mining industry, as the firm has pledged $100 million into a cryptocurrency mining firm called Foundry. The mining company Foundry was noiselessly founded in 2019 and…
New SEC Filing Shows Fidelity Preparing to Launch…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has published a new filing for a bitcoin fund, submitted by Fidelity Investments’ head of strategy and planning. Bitcoin Index Fund Filed With SEC The SEC published Wednesday…
Hollywood Royalty Flexes Crypto-Art Goals: Ashton Kutcher Auctions…
Actor and venture capitalist Ashton Kutcher’s first attempt at digital art, an awful piece titled “The Eye of the Beholder”, is auctioning at Cryptograph. At the time of writing, the highest bid stood at 13.26…
Farmers Could Soon Be Hedging Their Risks With…
Arbol, a platform that allows farmers to hedge weather risks, is integrating Chainlink data oracles. Arbol's CEO, Siddhartha Jha, told Cointelegraph that the company uses blockchain technology to solve a problem that affects billions of people…
Bitcoin’s Big Advertising Blitz, ETH Hits Two-Year High,…
Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. Top Stories This Week Bitcoin bulls stampede toward $12,000 as Ether hits a two-year high Once…
Protection strategies against hacking and APT attacks in…
After over a decade of development and evolution, the global blockchain ecosystem in 2020 now includes a multitude of businesses and enterprises, for example, information system integrators, integrators of fintech, financial holdings, banks, life insurance…
Matic Network Positions Itself as the Go-To Platform…
Activity on the Matic Network has gone into overdrive of late. The project recently finalized Phase 1 of its mainnet launch by adding third-party staking validators into the mix. The list of external validators available…
How to Remain Profitable Through the Halving of…
Reward halvings are a common element of many different forms of cryptocurrency, known to typically impact a coin’s supply, difficulty and price. For many cryptocurrencies, these halving mechanisms are embedded into the code in order…
Title Token for Blockchain Estate Registry, Part 3
The advantage of the cross-blockchain protocol for public registries is that it can unite any number of existing ledgers in one ecosystem and does not need to upgrade the protocols of such blockchains. In simple…
US Congressmen Want IRS to Balance Taxation and…
A bipartisan quartet of US congressmen wants the IRS taxation policy not to dissuade taxpayers from participating in blockchain token staking. These politicians believe America’s ingenuity can help drive this promising staking technology. The four…
Pasta Producer De Cecco Adopts VeChain My Care…
De Cecco, the world’s third-largest producer of pasta, becomes the latest firm to join the VeChain ecosystem by adopting the My Care methodology. It becomes Italy’s first major food manufacturer to integrate the solution. Source:…
Bitcoin Black Friday 2020 Will Host Major Discounts…
Before Bitcoin was a movement, it was a digital currency. While the store-of-value aspect of Bitcoin gets highlighted often, the permissionless payments side often doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. In 2012, Jon Holmquist embraced…
With Bitcoin Gaining Ground, Is the Altcoin Season…
Bitcoin has finally woken from its two-month slumber, as well as interest in the number-one cryptocurrency along with it. Bitcoin futures trading is bustling again, with both volume and aggregated interest at their highest since…
DeFi Yield Farming Is Driving Adoption, but Stakeholders…
Three years on from the initial coin offering mania of 2017, decentralized finance is the new hype. Spurred on by the promise of high annual gains, traders appear to be sowing heavily in crypto’s latest…
Visa Moving to Integrate With Digital Currency Platforms
Visa says it is working to integrate digital currencies with its existing global network of 61 million merchants. The global payments technology giant is working with two licensed and regulated digital currency platforms, Coinbase and…
Chess Grandmaster Kasparov: Bitcoin Empowers the Public and…
Russian human rights campaigner and chess supremo Gary Kasparov has said that the current economic crisis, which has led to unconventional monetary policy, will drive people towards bitcoin. Bitcoin’s finite supply compares favorably to agenda-driven…
ESPN Announces Online Gaming That Allows Bitcoin Deposits…
ESPN Global has announced the launch of a blockchain-powered gaming platform, which will allow competitors to deposit and withdraw using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies through Cryptopay. The platform is also integrating an online treasure hunt,…
Greatest Chess Grandmaster: Bitcoin Empowers the Public and…
Russian human rights campaigner and chess supremo Gary Kasparov has said that the current economic crisis, which has led to unconventional monetary policy, will drive people towards bitcoin. Bitcoin’s finite supply compares favorably to agenda-driven…
DC Comics Artist Launches VR Exhibition in Decentraland
José Delbo, a comic book artist who has drawn for both DC and Marvel, kicks off a week-long exhibition today (July 23) in the Ethereum-based virtual reality world, Decentraland. The artist, who started his career…
OKEx Adds DMG and CELO Tokens, Expands DeFi…
The #FinanceAll goal of the world’s leading crypto exchange and trading platform OKEx is now another step closer following the listing of a couple of new tokens belonging to emerging DeFi projects. The two new…
‘Wonder Woman’ Illustrator and British Artist Terry Flaxton…
The non-fungible token (NFT) and blockchain-backed collectible economy continue to see demand and the digital art market Makerplace has seen enormous growth recently. A number of well known artists have started to participate, as work…
PayPal’s move into crypto was inevitable, and more…
In a letter sent to the European Commission, PayPal confirmed that it is developing cryptocurrency capabilities. It has been widely speculated that PayPal and Venmo will roll out a feature involving direct sales of cryptocurrency…
Twitter Hack Autopsy: Coinbase, Binance, BitGo May Know…
The hackers who conducted the massive Twitter hijacking on July 15 do not appear to be sophisticated Bitcoin (BTC) users, as they left trails leading to and from major exchanges that presumably hold the keys…
Video: How to Create a Multisig Wallet With…
Bitcoin multisig wallets can enable more secure custody of your bitcoin, adding redundancy and avoiding a single point of failure in the number of keys necessary to authorize a spend. One new tool for utilizing…
Diamonds Are (Finally) Forever on the Ethereum Blockchain
Non fungible tokens (NFT) representing diamonds have made their way to the OpenSea marketplace. In the past, there have been quite a few attempts to tokenize diamonds and other precious stones and metals. But Icecap…
DApps Need to Nail Usability to Move From…
From CryptoKitties to Compound, decentralized applications and decentralized finance have become increasingly popular in the blockchain space, but the sector has gone through a fair share of teething problems since DApps first appeared in 2017.…
Japanese Listed Company Globalway Plans to Build Sharing…
TimeCoinProtocol is a new project developed by TimeTicket leveraging blockchain technology to create a decentralized sharing economy platform. The solution is powered by the TimeCoin token (TMCN), an EOS-based native token used both for payments…
DLT Voting Would Likely Benefit Democrats: UNSW Professor
Richard Holden, an economics professor at the University of New South Wales Business School, says using distributed ledger technology could allay Republican concerns over mail-in voter fraud — but would likely benefit the Democratic Party. …
Binance Donates $70k of PPE Equipment to Hospitals…
Binance Charity (BC) has donated $70k worth of personal protective equipment (PPE) to eighteen hospitals and government institutions in the Philippines. The contribution, which includes sanitizer, goggles, masks, gloves, and overalls, is intended to keep…
European Blockchain Ecosystem Needs €350 Million for the…
A study report by Leadblock Partners, an appointed representative of Sapia Partners LLP, finds an accelerating growth of the European blockchain ecosystem. The findings of the Leadblock Partners study suggest European respondents have a funding…
The Tokenized Metaverse: Non-Fungible Token Sales to Surpass…
On July 1, 2020, the partner of Polynexus Capital, Andrew Steinwold, detailed that the sales of blockchain-powered non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are about to cross the $100 million mark. The popularity of NFTs has grown massive…
Cryptocurrency-Focused Docuseries Airs to Millions of Viewers via…
A new docuseries called “Open Source Money” recently aired on July 4 and premiered on the Discovery Science channel. The new show gave millions of Discovery viewers information concerning bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings, and…
Report: $300B Worth of Food Will Be Traced…
Blockchain technology and the Internet of Things (IoT) can solve some of the food industry’s most pressing challenges and save it $100 billion a year, according to a recent report by Cointelegraph Consulting and VeChain. The…
Bank for International Settlements Calls CBDCs a Potential…
In advance of its coming annual report, on June 24 the Bank for International Settlements released a special chapter from that report on digital payments — especially central bank digital currencies, a topic that’s attracted…
Proof-of-Work vs. Proof-of-Stake for Scaling Blockchains
Most people in the cryptocurrency world are aware that network validation often comes in one of two forms: proof-of-work or proof-of-stake. There are others, but these systems are common and power many of the most…
Virtual Economies Gear up the Gravy Train in…
Virtual economies based on blockchain technology are starting to emerge as one of the biggest upcoming trends in gaming, gaining more traction with investors, gamers and developers alike. The use of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs,…
Deloitte: 39% of Companies Worldwide Now Have Blockchain…
Auditing giant Deloitte’s latest survey shows that almost 40% of respondents from major technology companies worldwide currently have blockchain in production — and almost nine in ten think blockchain will become more important in the…
First Mover: Cardano’s No Ethereum Killer Yet, But…
As Ethereum pushes slowly toward a new type of blockchain technology that some cryptocurrency experts predict could represent the future of decentralized finance, the upstart competitor Cardano is getting ready to go live. And Cardano’s digital token,…
Why Family Offices Should Consider Digital Assets for…
Constantin Kogan is a venture partner at BitBull Capital and has been a cryptocurrency investor since 2012. He has over 10 years of experience in corporate leadership, technology and finance. He contributes to the digital…
Amid Youtube Censorship, Individuals Flock to Decentralized Video…
In mid-May, news.Bitcoin.com reported on one of our mining pool videos being censored and banned from the video-sharing platform Youtube. The report had shown how Youtube has been censoring videos for a long time now,…
Bitcoin’s $100K Probability – Speculation or Economic Theory…
Stemming from the confined venue of speculation and economic theory, there is much to address regarding the probability of whether Bitcoin will ever reach $100,000. To bring light upon the query in motion, we’ll analyze…
Cointelegraph Joins World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence Network
We are excited to announce that Cointelegraph has joined the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence contributor network as a content partner, supplying the latest blockchain and cryptocurrency industry news, market analysis and op-eds into its…
Review: Cointelegraph-Inspired Climate Change Art Exhibition
Selva Ozelli is an international tax attorney and regular contributor to Cointelegraph. She gives her expert opinion on a range of subjects, including how cryptocurrency and blockchain technology can both positively and negatively impact climate…
JPMorgan to Pay $2.5 Million to Settle Lawsuit…
JPMorgan Chase has reportedly agreed to pay $2.5 million to settle a crypto class-action lawsuit. Originally filed in 2018, the suit alleges that the bank overcharged customers for buying cryptocurrencies using Chase credit cards, classifying…
John McAfee Announces Privacy Coin – Airdrop Today
2020 has been a turbulent year for the cryptocurrency market, but it has established the resilience of blockchain technology. Despite a single-day market plunge that battered the entire market valuation with a 50% drop, the…
With Traditional Markets in Turmoil, AlphaPoint Transforms Assets
This is a sponsored article provided by AlphaPoint. In 2013, blockchain technology was in its earliest stages. The Bitcoin white paper, ushering in this underlying technology along with the world’s first cryptocurrency, had been published…
Central Bank Digital Currencies Need Decentralization
Igor Mikhalev is an expert principal at BCG helping clients develop business models with blockchain technologies and digital currencies. Kaj Burchardi is a Managing Director with BCG and leads the blockchain practice of BCG/Platinion globally.…
No Evidence ISIS Is Storing $300 Million in…
Blockchain intelligence firm Chainalysis has dismissed claims ISIS is holding a $300 million bitcoin (BTC) war chest. In a “fact-checking” report, published on May 20, 2020, the U.S. company accused the media of sensationalizing allegations…
Who Is Satoshi? Rounding Up The Usual Suspects…
This morning, a 50 BTC transaction with a UXTO from February 2009 was made, sending the Bitcoin community into a storm of speculation. Was it Satoshi who was moving the coins, or someone close to…