Forty Web3 startups from 12 different countries and territories are heading to Consensus to pitch.
The halving and a possible U.S. mining tax have miners considering new locations for basing their cost-sensitive operations.
UK medical marijuana tycoon Maximillian White has embraced crypto and blockchain to help shift product around the world.
Best-selling sci-fi author David Brin says AIs could be made to police each other under threat of losing blockchain-based registration.
With MiCA stablecoin rules taking effect in June, CoinDesk reached out to regulators in all 27 EU member states to show where countries are at with implementation.
Airdrops, presales and gaming NFTs are among the innovative ways crypto projects are raising funds with tokens in the post-ICO era.
Bitcoin's once-every-four-years "halving" this week may be very different from those of earlier epochs, typically ho-hum affairs. Now, an intense competition is underway to mine the first block after the halving, which could contain a rare and collectible fragment of a bitcoin known as an "epic sat."
He invented yield farming, has a Boomer-level property portfolio, and now Synthetix founder Kain Warwick has a plan to reinvent DeFi.
The "restaking" protocol with $15 billion in deposits won't pay rewards to depositors and is missing its mission-critical "slashing" feature.
Bitcoin Magazine’s technical editor says it’s necessary to implement covenants - which allow joint ownership of UTXOs - if Bitcoin is to fulfill its promise of bringing financial self-sovereignty to people globally.
AI didn’t kill the metaverse, it’s going to build it says Alien Worlds. Bittensor fires back at Eric Wall, medical/beer breakthroughs: AI Eye.
The influencers, representing Bitcoin and Ethereum, will enter the pit at the Consensus festival May 30, 2024. Fyre Festival’s Billy McFarland is also on the fight card.
Ignore the AI doomers: The Artificial Superintelligence Alliance has a plan to create AGI that makes everyone’s lives better. Can they do it?
With April’s “halving” set to cut mining rewards by half, Bitcoin miners are upgrading to more efficient mining machines, cutting costs, finding cheaper sources of power and exploring mergers and acquisition opportunities.
Data shows that the average trade size for the biggest spot bitcoin ETF suggests that demand is largely coming from retail investors.
When Kgothatso Ngako launched Machankura two years ago, he enabled Africans to transact bitcoin via feature phones for the first time. Now, he’s on the verge of helping Africans self custody their bitcoin, as well.
Government-led investments in crypto are increasingly plausible – but not at that rumored size.
Security analyst turned wallet-draining kingpin “Pink” defends millions stolen from “participants” who fell victim to his crypto scam kit.
Does it still make sense to benchmark blockchains using transactions per second (TPS), or are there smarter alternatives in 2024?
China’s digital yuan is probably the world’s leading central bank digital currency. In spite of its high level of development, it is not widely used.
Rampant bot activity has pumped daily USDC volume on a single Solana DEX past the entire stablecoin volume on Ethereum. So what’s going on?
NYC-based Bitcoin enthusiasts, as well as the crypto-curious, now have a place to nerd out, discuss and learn about Bitcoin.
The world’s most isolated capital is wealthy, offers stunning beaches, and has embraced crypto. Here’s our Crypto City Guide to Perth.
New liquid restaking platforms like Puffer and Ether.Fi have attracted billions of dollars in deposits, but they've birthed a speculative "points" frenzy that carries some risks.
Speaking to CoinDesk TV, Lummis says she is hopeful a stablecoin bill could move forward in the first half of 2024, before elections increase political pressures in Washington.
Polygon faces questions about 400M MATIC allegedly missing from its staking address but ChainArgos says no project allocates tokens correctly
Schwartz spoke to The Protocol about the aftermath of Ripple's SEC win, his method for dealing with XRP's rabid fanbase, the XRP Ledger's controversial approach to centralization, and more.
The ERC-7265 token standard proposes adding a “circuit breaker” mechanism to DeFi protocols to stop the transfer of Ethereum-based tokens in the event of a hack.