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The decentralized finance (DeFi) sector has grown substantially over the last couple of years. Total Value Locked (TVL) in the ecosystem peaked at over $250 Billion by the end of 2021, catalyzed by an ever-expanding array of decentralized apps (dApps). 

Cryptocurrency has become a boogeyman in conservation circles, but a growing corner of the industry is claiming to have a solution to the climate crisis: crypto carbon credits.In the coming years, companies from Procter & Gamble (PG) to Nestlé (NSRGY) are vowing to go

One of the main pillars of bitcoin’s value proposition is decentralization. Why then does the computer processing power behind the largest cryptocurrency seem to be concentrating again in one place, this time North America? The answer is multifaceted but some of the main re

John McAfee, who died in a Spanish prison last year while awaiting extradition to the U.S. on fraud charges, lived a wild life on every conceivable level, which culminated in a high-profile escape from Belize in 2012 after being accused of murdering his neighbor.When Scottish wri

Decentralized finance, more commonly known as DeFi, presents a fundamental shift in the way we’ve built our financial system. It’s the building block of the world’s No. 2 cryptocurrency, Ethereum. If you don’t have a solid understanding of it yet, it&rsquo

“Cryptocurrency investors who overlook taxes are more likely than ever to hear from the IRS.”

Doing research in 2017 for “The Truth Machine,” the second crypto book Paul Vigna and I wrote together, I scrolled through the feed generated by cryptograffiti.com, which allows people to preserve and read coded messages and images stored in the Bitcoin blockchain.The

For crypto enthusiasts, El Salvador’s bitcoin-backed "volcano" bond is extremely exciting. Tokenizing a billion dollar sovereign bond on the blockchain would be a first. So would sidestepping traditional financial institutions to issue debt by using a crypto exchange and ta

History tells us it’s not impossible for cash to outperform all other asset classes, however it is rare. If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s that we should learn to expect the unexpected.

Hardware is constantly evolving. Bitcoin (BTC) mining only needed Raspberry Pis in the very early days. Ethereum (ETH) could be mined with an average consumer laptop GPU. Now, validators on newer blockchains are required to have high-speed servers, gigabit internet connectivity a

If crypto’s pseudonymous economy is to survive this era of NFT rug pulls and token Ponzinomics, then I’ve yet to see a reason why or how it should. We’re living through a massive digital whack-a-mole game. But these moles have mallets – Groucho Marx masks,

What continent is home to the second-largest bitcoin (BTC) market, a government-introduced central bank digital currency (CBDC) and crypto market growth of more than $100 billion in the past year?Maybe you would say North America, with its bevvy of crypto companies. Or in Latin A

Three tech trends that will continue to be crucial for Asia during 2022.

For retail investors, interest rate hikes could mean changes to mortgages, stocks, crypto, and options. In the endemic phase we have entered in, it is now time to return to normalcy, which will benefit retail investors across all sectors.

During the “DeFi Summer” bull market of 2020 that propelled this nascent corner of the cryptocurrency industry from the blockchain backwaters to a multibillion-dollar opportunity, DeFi Pulse’s “Maker dominance” widget began to seem a bit like an anac

The original Bitcoin client didn’t discriminate between nodes, wallets or miners. Rather, an early adopter would download the Bitcoin software, sync to the tip of the young blockchain, create a wallet and start streaming mining rewards to themselves.Bitcoin is different tod

To many, the concept of an NFT is an enigma. Are they an investment? Collectible? Pricey fad? Scam? The answer: probably all of the above. Non-fungible tokens take many forms. The most common NFTs to date are two-dimensional digital art, but an NFT can refer to any digital p

A one-word change in Circle’s attestation reports for the USDC stablecoin may be more significant than it first appears, according to accounting experts who spoke to CoinDesk.As early as its first publicly available attestation, for October 2018 but issued the following mon

On Feb. 3, 2022, Josh Jarrett, a Tennessee “smartgym” owner and a “baker” (who ensures transactions in a block are correct) on the Tezos blockchain, announced he was rejecting the U.S. government's offer of a $4,000 tax refund for income taxes he paid on h

The Russian invasion of Ukraine cuts across the very human world of digital assets in multiple ways.Ukrainian authorities and resistance fighters are harnessing the power of cryptocurrencies to fund their defense. Western countries, individual donors and charities are using digit