Sure one can use cryptocurrencies to make cross-border international payments within minutes, but the crypto payment in many cases cannot be of any real immediate use to the receiver. This is where the complexities arise.
Call it proof of chutzpah.Chris Larsen, one of the co-founders of beleaguered crypto-payments company Ripple, has devoted a reported $5 million of his personal fortune to a public campaign seemingly aimed at making bitcoin (BTC) greener.
Holy heck, was last week busy or what? Legislation in India and Europe took center stage, but there's a lot happening pretty widely. I’m going to take a second to shamelessly plug the CoinDesk regulatory team here because there's too much to run through in one newsletter &n
We hear from Marc Roberts, owner and founder of E11EVEN Partners, about the rise of buying real estate with cryptocurrency, the factors driving this trend and some of the barriers that are still in the way of further adoption.
In the less than 24 hours since megastar Will Smith permanently damaged his public image by slapping Chris Rock, a man half his size, the cryptosphere has launched at least two projects purporting to somehow put the event on the blockchain. Despite no obvious logical connection b
The metaverse comes for every industry eventually, but fashion is more ready for it than most.That’s because the logic of the non-fungible token (NFT) market is already informed by the logic of the fashion market. You can see it most clearly in streetwear: Before NFT drops,
Nasdaq’s TradeTalks Global Markets Reporter, Jill Malandrino, spoke with Tony Sio, Head of Market Place Regulatory Technology at Nasdaq, to discuss surveillance trends for 2022.
The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector has grown substantially over the last couple of years. Total Value Locked (TVL) in the ecosystem peaked at over $250 Billion by the end of 2021, catalyzed by an ever-expanding array of decentralized apps (dApps).
Cryptocurrency has become a boogeyman in conservation circles, but a growing corner of the industry is claiming to have a solution to the climate crisis: crypto carbon credits.In the coming years, companies from Procter & Gamble (PG) to Nestlé (NSRGY) are vowing to go
One of the main pillars of bitcoin’s value proposition is decentralization. Why then does the computer processing power behind the largest cryptocurrency seem to be concentrating again in one place, this time North America? The answer is multifaceted but some of the main re
John McAfee, who died in a Spanish prison last year while awaiting extradition to the U.S. on fraud charges, lived a wild life on every conceivable level, which culminated in a high-profile escape from Belize in 2012 after being accused of murdering his neighbor.When Scottish wri
Decentralized finance, more commonly known as DeFi, presents a fundamental shift in the way we’ve built our financial system. It’s the building block of the world’s No. 2 cryptocurrency, Ethereum. If you don’t have a solid understanding of it yet, it&rsquo
Doing research in 2017 for “The Truth Machine,” the second crypto book Paul Vigna and I wrote together, I scrolled through the feed generated by cryptograffiti.com, which allows people to preserve and read coded messages and images stored in the Bitcoin blockchain.The
For crypto enthusiasts, El Salvador’s bitcoin-backed "volcano" bond is extremely exciting. Tokenizing a billion dollar sovereign bond on the blockchain would be a first. So would sidestepping traditional financial institutions to issue debt by using a crypto exchange and ta
History tells us it’s not impossible for cash to outperform all other asset classes, however it is rare. If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that we should learn to expect the unexpected.
Hardware is constantly evolving. Bitcoin (BTC) mining only needed Raspberry Pis in the very early days. Ethereum (ETH) could be mined with an average consumer laptop GPU. Now, validators on newer blockchains are required to have high-speed servers, gigabit internet connectivity a
If crypto’s pseudonymous economy is to survive this era of NFT rug pulls and token Ponzinomics, then I’ve yet to see a reason why or how it should. We’re living through a massive digital whack-a-mole game. But these moles have mallets – Groucho Marx masks,
What continent is home to the second-largest bitcoin (BTC) market, a government-introduced central bank digital currency (CBDC) and crypto market growth of more than $100 billion in the past year?Maybe you would say North America, with its bevvy of crypto companies. Or in Latin A
