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Today a team of data scientists publish, and the New York Times reports on, what may be the most important piece of academic research yet on Web 3.We expect headlines to focus on the more explosive potential implications of linking together many pseudonymous Bitcoin addresses. Ye

A new academic paper claims that Bitcoin (BTC) in its first two years was more centralized and fragile than has been widely recognized.The cryptocurrency survived and thrived thanks to a small group of pioneers who chose not to attack the network when they easily could have, says

Human society in the 21st century is faced with numerous global-scale challenges and systemic risks. These challenges include climate change, misinformation, an insecure digital infrastructure and a lack of economic prosperity. And while solutions for some of these problems are a

Auryn Macmillan helps the prediction market-driven collective GnosisDAO run. That might help explain his curious answer when asked "would you choose to live forever?""I have FOMO about the future," he said, describing the fear of missing out. "[B]ut I don't want to commit up-fron

The crypto sector is often painted as the weakest link in the fight against financial crime. More recently, it has been accused of posing a risk to financial stability and compromising investor security with its laissez-faire attitude toward cybersecurity.But if you take the temp

In the summer of 2021, CNBC reported on cryptocurrency's "big gender problem." Despite the fact that crypto culture was built on democratizing money and leveling the financial playing field, women...

So far, 2022 has been as unkind to digital coins as it has been to stocks. Bitcoin is down more than 37% on the year. Ethereum is down more than 41% and crypto, in general, has been in the news for...

News of digital currencies has been crowding the financial press for several years, yet getting a grip on what exactly "cryptocurrency" means and how to measure its success or failure is a real...

It's National Yo-Yo Day, so if you're in the mood for a little old-fashioned fun ... you know what to do. Meanwhile, here are the top financial stories of the day. The Big Lead: Musk Clarifies...

Late last week, New York’s Senate passed a moratorium impacting bitcoin mining in the state. It’s not a ban of proof-of-work mining per se, but instead a two-year freeze on starting up new bitcoin mining facilities that rely on carbon-based fuel.That bill, having clea

We’ll be in Austin, Texas this week for CoinDesk’s Consensus 2022. Regulators and lawmakers will be out in force to discuss how they’re approaching the rapidly growing cryptocurrency sector.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at t

There may be no surer sign that a currency has reached the financial mainstream than when it is used to scam people out of massive piles of money. That's what's happening with cryptocurrency,...

In 2018, billionaire investment guru Warren Buffett said his Berkshire Hathaway firm "will never have a position" in cryptocurrency. Four years later, the Oracle of Omaha is as sour on crypto as he...

Cryptocurrency has risen in popularity in recent years, but many people still don't understand it. A 2021 survey conducted by Crypotliteracy.org found that 96% of Americans can't pass a basic crypto...

Cryptocurrency is a meme.Currency has always been structured around fundamentals, whether it be precious metals, governmental powers or advantage in commerce. The reduction of major currencies to untethered fiat currencies has brought about a transformative reaction in the form o

“Software is eating the world” has become one of the iconic phrases of the last decade of the software industry. Quoted in 2011 by software legend and venture capitalist extraordinaire Marc Andreessen, it synthesized the idea that companies that operated mostly in the

Ambre Soubiran is the chief executive of one of crypto's most essential data startups, Kaiko. A mathematician by training, Soubrian left an analyst job at HSBC for the crypto industry, predicting that blockchain would reinvent banking. The Chicago-native living in Paris is the la

A few months back, some of my work proximity associates thought it would be interesting to run a wide-reaching, sweeping Bitcoin survey to learn more about the demographics, user behaviors and general perceptions of this hotly debated digital thingamabob. Of course, we had other

Bradley Miles, co-founder of social token infrastructure platform Roll, owns bitcoin, does not own DOGE and thinks in 100 years there will be fewer currencies. His platform is built for the creator economy, it allows anyone to mint a token to monetize their brands and reward comm

The invention of the joint-stock corporation in the 1600s was transformative for human organizing. Providing a structure for jointly working toward economic growth, corporations drove the subsequent Industrial Revolution and fundamentally shifted the arc of human expansion.Today,