Buying cryptocurrencies like Ether (ETH), the native asset on the Ethereum blockchain, is just about as easy as buying a share of a stock, but buying ETH is just the first step in the process of truly owning and unlocking the potential of the asset.
In 2014, after seeing Satoshi Nakamoto make bitcoin (BTC) a uniquely digital currency, Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist Kevin McCoy became “obsessive” looking for a way to do the same with artwork.This piece is part of CoinDesk's Metaverse Week
Editor's note: As part of CoinDesk’s “Metaverse Week,” we asked a number of engineers, executives and experts to weigh in on the substantial issues raised by the crypto industry. This roundtable covers how to prevent the metaverse from becoming a nightmare, and
Amid rising interest rates in the U.S. market, asset classes across the board are seeing selling pressure, and cryptocurrencies are no exception.What’s more, events like the collapse of terraUSD’s (UST) stablecoin could be adding to crypto’s recent pullback. How
Amid rising interest rates in the U.S. market, asset classes across the board are seeing selling pressure, and cryptocurrencies are no exception.What’s more, events like the collapse of terraUSD’s (UST) stablecoin could be adding to crypto’s recent pullback, but
Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, the most used blockchain, thinks he found the next big opportunity in crypto. He wants distributed ledgers to help create and manage our identities – both on and offline – using “soulbound tokens” (SBT).In a rec
Want to ensure the metaverse lives up to its promise? That requires listening to and learning from your community, unleashing your imagination, and letting what’s worked, and hasn’t worked, guide us as we create new, immersive experiences.While the metaverse is a term
The Proust Questionnaire – an old-style magazine format popular in the French novelist's day – asks a series of personal, philosophical and prosaic questions that, in theory, present a side of a person not often seen. Here, Alex Masmej, founder of social media platfor
The staying power of cryptocurrencies and digital assets in general derives in part from their versatility. Every time I feel like I’m nearing the bottom of the barrel, someone contacts me with a new use case for crypto.Most recently, however, it was Dan Jurek, vice preside
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...
Going out for coffee is the best part of the day. She leaves her tiny apartment with her sullen roommates and goes to a cafe two blocks away. She customizes every order. Today it is cookies and cream and almond and vanilla foam, with a dash of green pistachio for flair. There&rsq
Editor's note: As part of CoinDesk’s “Metaverse Week,” we asked a number of engineers, executives and experts to weigh in on the substantial issues raised by the crypto industry. In this roundtable discussion, they answer the question of how the metaverse will b
Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) has been on the rise since the beginning of the pandemic, with its use peaking in December as 23% of all U.S. adults said they used the service, according to Morning Consult....
We are in the midst of a brutal downturn in equity markets, in large part because inflation has pushed the U.S. Federal Reserve to tighten interest rates. The impacts have been particularly sharp for “growth” or “innovation” assets, including predominantly
The year is 1995. It’s 11:35 p.m. and the “Late Show with David Letterman” is airing across the nation. Tonight’s guest? A still-young CEO of Microsoft (MSFT), one Bill Gates, a few years ahead of the antitrust woes he was soon to weather. Tonight’s
Mining a Bitcoin block just became easier because some miners have been dropping out of the network to cut their losses.The difficulty of mining a bitcoin block fell by 4.3317% to 29.897T at 15:02 UTC on May 25. The bitcoin mining difficulty automatically adjusts every two weeks
The Proust Questionnaire – an old-style magazine format popular in the French novelist's day – asks a series of personal, philosophical and prosaic questions that, in theory, present a side of a person not often seen. Here, Jesse Johnson, the founder of Aavegotchi, a
In a desperate attempt to stay relevant with crypto-curious audiences, marketers around the world are FOMOing into the metaverse trend, experimenting with everything from branded non-fungible token (NFT) collectibles, to virtual shops and offices, through to issuing their very ow
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