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Developers have long been working on making Bitcoin more private because every bitcoin (BTC) transaction ever sent is stored in the blockchain, which anyone can see. Last week, Bitcoin privacy programmer Chris Belcher released an alpha version of Teleport, an implementation of pr

A month after complaining its founders were “doxxed,” the company behind the Bored Ape Yacht Club is flipping the script on its customers.On a mysterious new website, Yuga Labs is asking users to provide sensitive personal information – everything from passport

Hello readers, David Z. Morris here, pleased to be filling in for Michael this Friday.This week saw the unveiling of the Biden administration’s promised executive order on cryptocurrency regulation. By most accounts, the order appears to be cautious and balanced, largely a

First we had personalized Geocities sites and AOL Instant Messenger profiles. Then we had MySpace accounts, quickly followed by the Facebook page. Now we have Web 3 wallets.People are increasingly using their Web 3 wallets as a way to signal who they are to others. Wallets are no

The cryptocurrency market as a whole remains mired in a deep correction that began in earnest last November.

Crypto exchange FTX’s launch of a crypto gaming platform is seen as a make-or-break strategy to lift revenues while giving a fresh boost to an already burgeoning metaverse or virtual reality (VR) industry, analysts say.

Relief and applause followed U.S. President Joe Biden’s executive order on crypto, issued Wednesday. The consensus of all the opinions in the aftermath is that the order represents a major milestone, a much sought-after acknowledgement of crypto’s legitimacy from the

Cryptocurrencies and digital assets have quickly become part of our new normal. As a majority of Americans are soon to step into retirement, many are rethinking their investment strategies, looking to rather invest in crypto as a way to catch up for lost time.

Andy Warhol would have been all-in on the NFT PFP craze, seeing it as Art for Everyman and pretender to the throne of his uber-famous Campbell’s Soup can paintings. The fact the craze deigned to elevate fatuous cartoonery assembled by code into a gigantic limited edition mi

Legendary technologist and Apple (AAPL) CEO Steve Jobs may have been better with words than he was with design. He recognized that “every once in a while, a revolutionary product comes along that changes everything.” From the printing press to the telegram to the iPho

Back in 2012, as an excited economics undergrad, I decided I wanted to invest some of the money I had into bitcoin (BTC). It was a complicated process that involved driving to Walmart (WMT) and sending a MoneyGram money order to a company called ZipZap, which would then send my m

In Asia, for parents of Generations X and Y, video games were often the source of headaches and arguments with their children. As teenagers immersed themselves in the virtual world of fire-spitting dragons, club-wielding warlords and magical sorcery, parents worried their kids we

Ask a hundred people what Bitcoin is and you are bound to get a hundred different answers. It’s “digital gold.” An uncensorable transaction network. A high-alpha buy tracking tech stocks.One thing is clear, however. Bitcoin is not an effective tool for money lau

The White House on Wednesday announced steps toward regulating digital-asset transactions through a new cryptocurrency executive order (EO) issued on March 9.And while regulation has infamously gotten the bad rap that it kills economic activity, this could be an important step in

The stunning excommunication of Russia from the global financial system will dramatically reshape the way global entities of all sorts move money. According to one corporate treasury expert, that will likely include more openness to cryptocurrency as a way for big companies to do

Gaming and game development move at breakneck speed. Fast forward to today and we’re living in a hyperconnected world.

The Financial Stability Board (FSB), a global finance watchdog that monitors financial activities in 24 countries, recently issued a warning about the potential threat that crypto markets posed to the global economy.

Under Commissioner Adam Silver’s leadership the National Basketball Association (NBA) has been the most innovative major professional sports league in the United States. It is thus no surprise it has also been the most crypto forward, most notably inking the partnership wit

President Biden’s executive order on digital asset innovation – directing federal agencies to study the industry and report on regulatory authority – is a major milestone for the industry in the United States.

Amid the dying embers of World War II, in an ornate ballroom in a New Hampshire resort in July 1944, America gathered the imminent victors of the war and designed a new monetary system. Global currencies would be various weights of the dollar, redeemable for gold held with the U.