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Addressing Bitcoin’s energy-intensive proof-of-work model would encourage greater institutional adoption, according to one chief executive who has focused on sustainability for more than eight years.Bradford Van Voorhees, CEO and co-founder of Sustainable Bitcoin Protocol,

The knowledge required to manage a crypto portfolio is much different than what is required to manage a portfolio of traditional investments like stocks and bonds.Although people recognize the potential disruption that cryptocurrency and blockchain technology may have on various

Matt Hancock hasn’t always backed the right horse – but he has no regrets about his support for crypto in spite of the recent market downturn, the British lawmaker told CoinDesk.Hancock – who served as health minister during the COVID-19 pandemic during the Bori

Hollywood is a $100 billion business. Much of that business, for better or worse, is now fueled by franchise intellectual property (IP) – “Star Wars,” the “MCU,” “Harry Potter,” “Fast & Furious.” If you own the IP, you own

Most people probably first heard of blockchain mining when Bitcoin began entering the mainstream in the late 2010s. Bitcoin, after all, was the only cryptocurrency in the beginning, and mining was the...

Having been born into the salmon restoration movement, Pom, a Native American tribe leader in Northern California, is staking out how to use blockchain to revive the native species of Chinook salmon his community once relied on.To do so, Pom and his team created a video game call

The red carpet can be deceiving. The glamor of Hollywood can mislead. Consider, for example, the case of working actors in television.“Unless you’re a series regular, you’re not making real money,” says David Bianchi, an actor with over 100 film and TV cre

The red carpet can be deceiving. The glamor of Hollywood can mislead. Consider, for example, the case of working actors in television.“Unless you’re a series regular, you’re not making real money,” says David Bianchi, an actor with over 100 film and TV cre

Credit Suisse could be $8 billion short of its required capital ratio by 2024, according to a recent analysis by JPMorgan. The math here is beyond the ken of mere mortals, but as summarized by Seeking Alpha, the projected shortfall is thanks to a mix of weak projected earnings, r

An update to Ethereum last month dubbed “The Merge” cut the second-largest blockchain’s energy costs by more than 99%, but it didn’t address its largest barriers to user adoption: high fees and slow speeds.As more updates aimed at these problems lie around

An update to Ethereum last month dubbed “The Merge” cut the second-largest blockchain’s energy costs by more than 99%, but it didn’t address its largest barriers to user adoption: high fees and slow speeds.As more updates aimed at these problems lie around

“Institutions are coming” is a common mantra for mainstream adoption in crypto. The idea implies a huge flow of capital into the $1 trillion crypto market, and the accelerated maturing of crypto as an asset class.But when institutions come, where do they go and who do

Imagine that one day you absentmindedly fall victim to a crypto phishing scam, the perpetrator stealing 10 ether (ETH) from you. Crypto transactions are final so there's not much that you can do, right?Well, not so fast.

With the current model of Web3, your private key is either custodied by you or it’s custodied by a corporation such as an exchange like Coinbase.Lit Protocol, which will be featured at CoinDesk’s upcoming IDEAS conference, is neither of those two categories of wallets

Smart contracts are the bread and butter of blockchains. They’re often used in the complex money legos of decentralized finance (DeFi), often unintelligible to the general public and even most businesses. But can smart contracts also be deployed to help address the needs in

For the first time in human history, a technology has been created that once and for all divorces money from the state. This separation of money and state is poised to transform the way we think about value and our expectations of government involvement in our financial lives, an

Prior to his current role in the special projects group at Jump Crypto, Steve Kaminsky began his career in the traditional finance (TradFi) sphere, working in fixed income markets at Goldman Sachs. This experience has helped him understand the differences – and similarities

Evelien Witlox is a busy woman.When she’s not running between events – briefing European Union policymakers, banks or the Sibos finance conference this week – she’s designing the digital euro, a new format for the world’s second-biggest reserve curre

The Cosmos ecosystem is about to embark on a brave new journey, following the announcement of ATOM 2.0. The white paper, unveiled a few weeks back at a major Cosmos conference, is a radical redesign of the blockchain ecosystem’s value proposition. Or is it?“The point

Bitcoin maximalism has become so desperately unhinged I consider it a cultural Chernobyl. The situation was not always so. Bitcoin culture was not maximalist for most of its history.The zealots infecting modern Bitcoin culture are usurpers.