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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

Ethereum is the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market value after bitcoin. Here’s how it works, how to buy it and more.

Although Bitcoin is commonly considered a new form of money, it is far more nuanced.Bitcoin is a multi-layered financial ecosystem with its own monetary system. Because of this monetary system, Bitcoin is independent of today’s existing financial and monetary system.

NFTs have been polarizing from the start.When these pricey, crypto-backed JPEG files wormed their way into the mainstream early last year, there were far more questions than answers about what these things could actually do, and what, if anything, they meant for the future of dig

Access to capital is the backbone of any industry, not least of all for cryptocurrency-linked companies that are relatively young and in a hyper-growth mode. For digital asset miners, the need for capital is more pronounced because these companies require a large amount of fundin

Crypto.com is officially the exclusive cryptocurrency trading platform sponsor for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.

Early this week my colleague Danny Nelson reported that billionaire investor and author Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater hedge fund, one of the largest and most influential capital managers in the world, may be gaining exposure to crypto. This is a significant advance on one of the

The past year has been a rollercoaster for the two largest and most influential blockchains, Bitcoin and Ethereum.Bitcoin mining underwent a seismic shift in the late spring of 2021 as China forced miners to shut down. The following migration of hashrate has changed the landscape

Margins as high as 90%? It doesn’t take a Harvard MBA to know that’s an unusually profitable business model.Such was the allure of cryptocurrency mining, back when bitcoin and the broader digital asset market hit all-time highs last year, leading many traditional busi

The rapid development and adoption of the crypto marketplace across institutional, corporate and retail investor markets have been growing at a speed well beyond regulatory efforts to keep up.

Every time I come across Vitalik Buterin, I’m impressed by his intellectual curiosity and underlying earnestness.The former is rare; there aren’t many folks who can hold their own with Tyler Cowen. The latter, fortunately, is something he shares with other high-achiev

There are a lot of things that the blockchain faithful, myself included, have been right about. Many of the predictions I made years ago about the popularity of NFTs (non-fungible tokens) and the rise of DeFi (decentralized finance) have borne out. In turn, my conviction about th

We speak with Jeremy Schwartz, Global Head of Research at WisdomTree, about how investors should position their portfolios in response to the conflict in Ukraine, rising inflation and a March rate hike.

Crypto is marketed by its fans as an unstoppable dissident technology and feared by governments for its subversiveness. But the many shortcomings of a recent bitcoin fundraiser to support an illegal Ottawa, Ontario, trucker convoy (more on that later) suggests that crypto isn't a

The average social media user today engages with multiple platforms: TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Discord, YouTube and more. In each of these platforms, users and creators form a marketplace, where one needs the other to thrive. The strength of any Web 2 social network i

Russian-Canadian computer programmer and entrepreneur Dmitry Buterin may have introduced his son Vitalik to Bitcoin – the first step in a chain of events that led to the development of the most-used blockchain today, Ethereum, that Vitalik co-founded – but he doesn&rs