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…
Money Reimagined: Fixing the Internet’s Big Flaw
The Money Reimagined Podcast After reading this newsletter, make sure you check out the latest edition of our podcast. This week, Sheila Warren and I talk to Hyperledger Executive Director Brian Behlendorf about self-sovereign identity,…
What Happens if Big Tech Only Gets Bigger?
Amy Webb, a quantitative futurist and founder of the strategic foresight firm Future Today Institute, thinks the world can, indeed, get worse. In her most recent book “2020 Tech Trend Report: Strategic Trends that Will…
Crypto Long & Short: The OCC’s Stablecoin Statement…
An unsurprising statement from a financial regulator is sending some welcome signals that point to a spurt of innovation ahead. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) issued a statement earlier this…
The US is number one…in blockchain patents
Despite Alibaba filing more patents, the United States still takes the lead as the country with the most blockchain copyrights, a Sept. 17 report from intellectual property consultancy KISSPatent. The U.S. has 2,112 patents, followed…
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…
Blockchain Bites: Uniswap’s Token, Kraken’s Bank, Bitcoin’s Newbies
Uniswap issued a governance token, Kraken is the world’s first crypto bank and there are more “newbie” bitcoin investors than any time in the past two years. Top shelf Crypto’s bankKraken Financial, a newly formed division…
The $55M Hack That Almost Brought Ethereum Down
Bloomberg News reporter Mathew Leising’s new book “Out of the Ether: The Amazing Story of Ethereum and the $55 Million Heist That Almost Destroyed It All” tells the story of the infamous DAO hack that…
China’s Largest Blockchain Initiative Adopts DAML as Smart…
China’s largest blockchain infrastructure initiative, also known as the Blockchain Services Network (BSN), has announced its choice of a unified smart contract programming language, dubbed “Digital Asset Modeling Language”, or DAML. The language was developed…
Money Reimagined: Ending Money’s Distance Trap
For Australians of my generation, historian Geoffrey Blainey’s phrase the “tyranny of distance” was the defining descriptor of our place in the world, a place that seemed awfully far from everyone else. In September of…
The Revolution You’ve Been Awaiting: Fintech + DeFi
Lex Sokolin, a CoinDesk columnist, is Global Fintech co-head at ConsenSys, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based blockchain software company. The following is adapted from his Fintech Blueprint newsletter. Everything seems to be getting connected: finance, culture, art, technology, media,…
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 —…
The Genesis Files: How Hal Finney’s Quest For…
Once described by PGP creator Phil Zimmerman as “the Mister Rogers of cryptography,” Hal Finney (1956) was known for his relentlessly uplifting spirit. He carried a positive perspective on life with him even when amyotrophic…
Crypto Mass Adoption Will Be Here When… [Fill…
Some attention has been devoted in recent years to the matter of blockchain adoption — more specifically, when will blockchain technology go mainstream — and when it does, how will we even know? The question…
Brazilian Crypto Companies to Self-Regulate: Target a $100…
Brazilian crypto companies have signed a code of self-regulation that aims to legitimize and to boost adoption of crypto assets in the country. The document was signed under the auspices of Abcripto, the country’s association…
Worth The Talk? Weighing up DeFi Products with…
It’s no secret that 2020 has been the year of decentralized finance when it comes to the crypto world. In this regard, a number of DeFi tokens have enjoyed value surges recently, leading many experts…
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…
Blockchain Bites: Rethinking Libra, Craig Wright and Something…
Top financial authorities are rethinking what a “basket-backed” stablecoin means for monetary sovereignty. The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) issued a new report claiming stablecoin initiatives like Libra haven’t driven central banks to explore CBDCs,…
Handshake Goes Live With an Uncensorable Internet Browser
Handshake set out to disrupt the World Wide Web of internet names. Now it’s looking to reinvent browsing. Today, as the Handshake Network records its 1 millionth transaction, HandyBrowser will go live. It’s a dedicated…
Breaking Bitcoin: Crypto Proponents Discuss Honeywell’s 6 Qubit…
On June 19, 2020, the massive industrial firm Honeywell told the public the company is now running a quantum computer that effectively leverages six effective quantum bits, or qubits. Honeywell’s machine is two times more…
Crypto Community Seeks an Edge With Mind-Bending Designer…
They could replace your morning coffee, so the saying goes on morning show broadcasts. Nootropics, sometimes called smart drugs, are a class of performance-enhancing supplements that are seeing widespread use in the tech and crypto…
How Blockchain Is Changing the Advertising Industry
Even though advertising has been around for about as long as commerce has, in today’s digital age entirely new problems are popping up that are souring the experience for advertisers, publishers and the public alike.…
Blockchain Bites: Why UN and Federal Reserve Experts…
U.N. and Federal Reserve experts independently researched central bank digital currencies and found they could effectively compete with the commercial banking system. Meanwhile, New York State and France have entered into a regulatory agreement and…
MakerDAO Weighs Accepting Real-World Assets as Crypto Loan…
Decentralized finance (DeFi) could soon boast a real-world use case. MakerDAO, the organization behind the dollar-pegged stablecoin known as DAI, is in the process of voting on whether to further diversify the collateral it accepts…
Blockchain Bites: Satoshi’s Sword of Damocles
Top Shelf Yesterday, some of the earliest mined bitcoin moved after more than a decade of dormancy. Whale Alert – a popular, mostly-automated Twitter account that tracks major crypto transactions – broadcast the message across…
Blockchain Bites: Bitcoin’s Difficulty Adjustment and More
Bitcoin's network difficulty adjusted downwards today, making older mining machines profitable once again, while Tokensoft distributed $4 million in tokenized equity to investors and technology firms are calling upon the Department of Defense to invest…
Blockchain Bites: Will Enterprise Blockchain Find a ‘Killer…
Top Shelf It seems like enterprise blockchain is between finding its “killer app” and being killed. “Everyone had a killer app three years ago. That was the state of blockchain business,” Shyam Nagarajan, a director…
Blockchain Bites: Capitalizing on Enterprise Blockchain and Reading…
Top Shelf On Wednesday we learned that less than a 1% of the total suspicious activity reports filed with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network since 2013 were crypto-related. Speaking at a workshop on FATF's Travel Rule, FinCEN Director Kenneth Blanco…
Enterprise Blockchain Market Will Hit $21.07 Billion by…
A new study from Fortune Business Insights, a company offering market studies and consulting services, estimates the blockchain technology market will reach $21 Billion by 2025, according to GlobeNewswire’s report on May 12. It stated that: …
Blockchain Bites: Hyperledger Makes Inroads, Bitcoin Gets ‘Harder’…
There's a lot of action happening in enterprise-grade blockchains. Big Blue's preferred chain, Hyperledger, is being tapped by three energy grid operators, a new consortium to establish digital identities for public and private organizations and…
The Man Who Forecast a Currency Cold War
Many of the impacts of COVID-19 are easy to grasp. Every day we see the gutting news: the rising body count, the millions of unemployed, the makeshift morgues in public parks. We grieve for those…
Data Shows the US Economy Was Collapsing 5…
During the last two months, the global economy has shuddered and a great number of people still attribute the financial meltdown to the Covid-19 outbreak. However, during the last two weeks, the blame has shifted,…
Blockchain Bites: WEF, IBM and a Chinese City…
A Chinese city is encouraging bitcoin mining, a payments processor joins Libra and the World Economic Forum is looking to blockchain to solve supply chain distortions. Situated amid the plateaus of the Szechuan province, Ya'an…