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Elon Musk is buying Twitter (TWTR).No, he means it this time, really. Probably.

Elon Musk is buying Twitter.No, he means it this time, really. Probably.

Some luxury hotels are now offering a new perk: the ability to pay in cryptocurrencies. From Dubai to the Swiss Alps, several high-end hotels enable guests to swap their credit cards for their digital...

The move to PoS from PoW will make the Ethereum blockchain not only more scalable but also more energy efficient.

Soon after the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) blacklisted the Tornado Cash mixer program in August, Ethereum research and development firm Flashbots announced that it would, in accordance with U.S. Treasury Department sanctions, begin censoring trans

ROME — Italy may be rubber-stamping crypto firms’ applications to operate in the country without running proper checks to make sure they are safe for investors.This summer, a string of prominent crypto firms – including Coinbase, Binance and Crypto.com – a

ROME — Italy may be rubber-stamping crypto firms’ applications to operate in the country without running proper checks to make sure they are safe for investors.This summer, a string of prominent crypto firms – including Coinbase, Binance and Crypto.com – a

Ethereum 2.0 is the next level of blockchain technology and cryptography. The upgrades are meant to make Ethereum more secure, scalable and sustainable.

Bitcoin has a maximum supply of 21 million. However, that doesn't tell the whole story. As time goes on, it becomes increasingly difficult to acquire bitcoin due to the asset's economics. Here is a...

Steve Aoki knows revolutions. As a teenager, before he was old enough to drive a car, he belonged to a community of “punk and hardcore kids” who played loud music in their basements. “We’re like, this music’s not meant for everyone,” he says no

Monday, before the market opened, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced it settled with celebrity influencer Kim Kardashian for $1.26 million related to her paid endorsement of a cryptocurrency called EthereumMax. Just as when Kardashian first shilled the to

For companies looking to dip a toe into Web3 – or take a cannonball plunge – it can be difficult to know where to start. Underlying technologies such as protocols, wallets and exchanges are still nascent compared with existing financial systems. New types of tokens ar

With that in mind, I want to touch on several major economic opportunities—which are either upon us or in the not-too-distant future—that will level the playing field of wealth creation and ownership for rising generations. 

The billionaire hedge fund investor Ray Dalio once said that the global economy is like a machine, running in mechanical cycles. If the world is a machine, then the short-term debt market is the lubricant that keeps it running. 

As cryptocurrency markets continue to grow in popularity among institutional and retail investors alike, it is crucial that they can meet the heightened demands of market participants with the proper technology, governance controls, and processes in place.

New research shows that huge swaths of the millennial generation are betting big on cryptocurrency -- maybe too big. In fact, more than a quarter of them have so much faith in Bitcoin, Ethereum and...

Last week, Ripple notched another procedural victory as part of its ongoing legal defense against the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, which sued the crypto firm and several of its executives in 2020 for the unregistered sale of $1.3 billion worth of XRP.On Sept. 29, a U.

The KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange, launched in 2017 and registered in the Republic of Seychelles, currently has more than 20 million users and ranks fifth in the rating of its peers, trailing closely behind giants such as Binance and Сoinbase.

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Some Ethereum proponents sport a bat and speaker emoji in their name on Twitter. This means they support the idea that the Merge will make Ethereum “ultra sound money.” It’s sort of clever I guess, because bats use ultrasound to help them fly in the dark.But wha