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NFTs are on a clear collision course with artificial intelligence, which will in theory unlock all sorts of new utilities, including AI-driven avatars that can hold conversations.However, because few people understand how this type of AI works, it’s alarmingly easy to hoodw

Though it’s not exactly a new idea, the phrase “mutual aid” first came to prominence last year, after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It tends to connote small, loosely organized collectives working to support communities from within – the kinds of loc

Though it’s not exactly a new idea, the phrase “mutual aid” first came to prominence last year, after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It tends to connote small, loosely organized collectives working to support communities from within – the kinds of loc

Although the worldwide bitcoin mining hash rate, which determines the rate at which new bitcoin are produced, dropped dramatically after China’s recent crackdowns on the industry, new data suggests that it is on the brink of complete recovery.

Long gone are the days where users saw crypto assets only as something to hold statically in cold storage wallets, or in the worst of cases, centralized exchanges.

“Yes, Web3 is a bunch of bullshit. The problem is, compared to what?”That subhead to Matt Stoller’s newsletter this week set me off even more than the headline, which read, “Cryptocurrencies: a Necessary Scam?”

For the past four years, the pseudonymous Twitter user Bitfinex’ed has been one of the most vocal critics of the cryptocurrency industry. They’ve taken particular aim at Tether, the company behind the largest and most used dollar-pegged stablecoin, USDT. Their name on

Kickstarter going decentralized is the latest boon to the Web 3 narrative, the idea that cryptocurrency and other decentralized tools are reinventing the internet as we know it.On Wednesday, the crowdfunding site announced it will embark on an ambitious technical overall of its c

Mass adoption has been a long-standing goal for the blockchain and crypto industry. Almost every business in this space strives for mass adoption in one way or the other.

Bitcoin (BTC) continues to prove why it’s the most valued cryptocurrency. On Nov. 10, the price of one Bitcoin reached an all-time high of about $69,000, before dipping to around $51,000 over the next few weeks (prompting the oft-repeated selloff and cries of crypto skeptics).

Financial advisors are either learning about crypto and digital assets or making the decision to take their valuable time to learn. Part of this decision is a return on investment (ROI) calculation – the time and expense of learning a new asset class and ecosystem vs. the p

When it comes to fear, uncertainty and doubt, also known as “FUD”, bitcoin attracts more than its fair share. Naysayers have been casting aspersions about bitcoin for over a decade – for example, they criticize bitcoin’s price volatility.But serious invest

Over the past year, blockchain has taken the world by storm via the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, which continues to grow exponentially in terms of service offerings and total value locked (TVL).

Both Stani Kulechov and Aave, the decentralized finance (DeFi) money market he founded, enjoyed a fruitful 2021. In April, the launch of a liquidity mining program helped propel Aave past rival Compound in total value locked (TVL) rankings, establishing Aave as the preeminent len

A verdict arrived Monday in the civil trial between Craig Wright and the estate of former collaborator Dave Kleiman. A jury found Wright guilty of intellectual property theft and has ordered him to pay $100 million in damages to an entity he founded with Kleiman, W&K Info Def

The New Yorker recently published a profile about early bitcoin user James Howells, who mined about 7,500 BTC using his gaming computer in 2009, only to discard the hard drive storing his private keys while cleaning his home office. That trove, worth today approximately $383 mill

Last week, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin brought forth Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) 4488, an upgrade that could drive down transaction costs for Ethereum rollups like Arbitrum, Optimism and zkSync. The proposal detailed the immediate steps for pushing gas fees down w

Now that banks are slowly, but surely moving to work with a new kind of valuable assets—namely, cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-based tokens—it’s high time for them to up their game with regards to security. 

The biggest crossover crypto story of the past few weeks is probably ConstitutionDAO – a ragtag group of crypto believers who raised more than $40 million in ETH, the currency of the Ethereum network, to purchase an original copy of the U.S. constitution at auction.Much has

Shiba Inu (CRYPTO: SHIB) is the latest cryptocurrency to get a lot of buzz on social media. It's actually a meme-based coin, created as a joke with the goal of its becoming more valuable than Dogecoin -- which also started as a joke but took on a life of its own and is now well k