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LAS VEGAS — Is Web3 ready for prime time?Some of the televisions unveiled this week at the annual CES trade show purportedly make accessing metaverse worlds or non-fungible token (NFT) wallets as easy as clicking the remote, escalating a long-running race among manufacturer

I’ve been working on consumer products for about a decade, having contributed to teams that have built and scaled apps to hundreds of millions of users. For the last six years I’ve been 100% focused on crypto. A large part of that has been working on scaling solutions

The visualization of altcoin deaths shows Bitcoin is the sole standout project amongst various failed scams and “projects.”

The collapse of the second-largest centralized cryptocurrency exchange FTX has asserted how centralized finance (CeFi) is different, and in many regards, riskier than decentralized finance (DeFi). 

Básicamente, el bloque génesis fue el primer bloque de bitcoin (BTC) en ser minado. También es conocido como Bloque 0 o Bloque 1.Read this article in English.

In his testimony before the House Financial Services Committee, current FTX CEO Jay J. Ray III laid out the most convincing case that fraud was committed while former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried held the reins at the bankrupt crypto exchange. Evidence strongly suggests FTX user fun

While at first glance it may seem that the NFT bubble has burst, the reality is different. The fact is that NFTs have much in common with art objects that are not traded on a daily basis, and the profit from their sale exceeds that of stock, bond and precious metals trading.

FTX and Alameda Research founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arraigned Tuesday in a Manhattan courtroom. Now attention turns to the legal process leading to an epic trial scheduled to start in October.James A. Murphy is a securities lawyer who publishes content on legal and business is

News broke on Tuesday that Sam Bankman-Fried, mastermind of the multibillion-dollar FTX-Alameda Research fraud, would plead not guilty to charges including conspiracy and wire fraud. Some, drawing on conspiratorial theories, have taken this as a sign that Bankman-Fried will pull

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For an industry whose raison d’etre is to usher in an era of trustless financial transactions, the cryptocurrency sector is coming to the end of a truly torrid year – one that has dramatically rocked the faith of its assorted disciples.

Staked ether withdrawals are imminentThis will be the most pressing issue that Ethereum developers will tackle.

Blockchain-based gaming continues to garner interest among some of the largest global gaming companies, even in the face of an extended crypto winter that has chilled many sectors of the industry.On Sunday, Square Enix, the multinational holding company behind the popular Final F

In a recent piece titled “Crypto will be fine,” former CoinDesker Brady Dale noted that even though crypto has taken a beating throughout the year that was, there are some indicators that remain bullish. Notably, Bitcoin’s hashrate (how much computational power

Happy New Year everyone! Thanks for sticking around as this newsletter heads into year three. And as is befitting the first issue of 2023, we’re going to spend today in court for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s arraignment.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinD

El 2022 fue la tormenta perfecta para las empresas de minería de bitcoin: las subas en las tasas de interés incrementaron el costo de capital, la minería de bitcoin se volvió menos rentable a medida que el hashrate obstinadamente subía mientras

The Genesis Block was simply the first block of bitcoin (BTC) to be mined. You might see it called Block 0 or Block 1.It’s still there today and will remain there as long as any computer runs the Bitcoin software. Every node in the Bitcoin network can go and look at it, eve

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...

The mining industry started 2022 off strong with what seemed like ample capital to expand, but high energy prices, increasing competition for Bitcoin blocks and a bear market hit miners, knocking out those with high leverage.The sector was shaken by bankruptcies and loan defaults

Can you believe this year started off with U.S. law enforcement officials arresting two individuals in connection with the 2016 Bitfinex hacked funds? For this week’s newsletter, the 102nd since we first launched in 2021, I asked CoinDesk’s Policy Team what they&rsquo