CoinDesk Crypto

It's fairly common knowledge that cryptocurrency is a decentralized digital medium of exchange that isn't issued by a government or bank. Most people are probably familiar with Bitcoin by now, and you...

We’ve talked in past editions of this newsletter about how Ethereum’s roadmap initially planned to ship “sharding” alongside its switch to a proof-of-stake (PoS) consensus mechanism. While PoS would have decreased the network’s energy costs, sharding

Before you invest your hard-earned money into any asset class, you owe it to yourself to do some research. Investing is hard enough even when you know every bit of information you can get your hands...

To dabble or not to dabble in crypto, that is the question on a lot of crypto-curious people's minds lately. While experts are split on the matter, there's a recurring theme: Proceed with caution and...

Typically, Generation X is more closely associated with hip-hop, grunge and the early adoption of personal computers than success in crypto trading. When you think of Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin and...

Sens. Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) introduced bipartisan legislation to create a regulatory framework for the crypto markets, the Responsible Financial Innovation Act, that...

The one thing that’s constant in crypto is the speed at which things evolve, according to one CEO who left the traditional world of finance back in 2016 to build tech infrastructure.Mriganka Pattnaik, co-founder of software development company Merkle Science, said the bigge

GOBankingRates is back with another roundup of the top financial stories of the day, but we're also excited to bring you our brand new page for all things cryptocurrency. Check it out, and...

Meltem Demirors – renegade crypto advocate and chief strategy officer at the $4 billion digital asset investment firm CoinShares – just wants to have fun. No clearer example: She ditched the oil industry to work full time on bitcoin. Today, she answers CoinDesk Confid

Venture capitalists (VCs), like crypto retail traders, essentially invest based on gut instinct.Sometimes this process is called “momentum,” as in a growing company or an appreciating coin is sure to do well if it has been doing well. Sometimes VCs or traders might es

It starts out innocently. Maybe you have a friend who mentions success with investing in or trading cryptocurrency, or you hear about it on a podcast or read about it on Reddit. You're drawn in but...

Cryptocurrency is still a wildly divisive topic in the investment community. While many online proponents suggest that crypto will become more important than currencies like the U.S. dollar in the...

A new research paper to be released this week sheds some interesting light on Bitcoin’s first two years of existence, finding that the small group of early miners often played by the rules even when they had an opportunity to cheat.The paper, “Cooperation among an ano

Today a team of data scientists publish, and the New York Times reports on, what may be the most important piece of academic research yet on Web 3.We expect headlines to focus on the more explosive potential implications of linking together many pseudonymous Bitcoin addresses. Ye

A new academic paper claims that Bitcoin (BTC) in its first two years was more centralized and fragile than has been widely recognized.The cryptocurrency survived and thrived thanks to a small group of pioneers who chose not to attack the network when they easily could have, says

Human society in the 21st century is faced with numerous global-scale challenges and systemic risks. These challenges include climate change, misinformation, an insecure digital infrastructure and a lack of economic prosperity. And while solutions for some of these problems are a

Auryn Macmillan helps the prediction market-driven collective GnosisDAO run. That might help explain his curious answer when asked "would you choose to live forever?""I have FOMO about the future," he said, describing the fear of missing out. "[B]ut I don't want to commit up-fron

The crypto sector is often painted as the weakest link in the fight against financial crime. More recently, it has been accused of posing a risk to financial stability and compromising investor security with its laissez-faire attitude toward cybersecurity.But if you take the temp

In the summer of 2021, CNBC reported on cryptocurrency's "big gender problem." Despite the fact that crypto culture was built on democratizing money and leveling the financial playing field, women...

So far, 2022 has been as unkind to digital coins as it has been to stocks. Bitcoin is down more than 37% on the year. Ethereum is down more than 41% and crypto, in general, has been in the news for...