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At least in theory, gamers should be an easy demographic for NFT adoption. They’ll proudly display digital game libraries worth thousands of dollars and covet abstract objects like “perfect runs” of their favorite role-playing games. The first time I ever saw th

Crypto mania seems to be in full swing in many parts of the world, including a significant portion of the United States.

Who or what will control the metaverse? And, what exactly is the metaverse anyway? We caught up with with Ong, who will appear at Crypto State by CoinDesk, our virtual community event tour, when it stops in Southeast Asia on Feb. 24. The discussion will explore the metaverse and

Ethereum’s volatile and sometimes extraordinarily high gas fees has been a major topic of conversation. Critics often cite the network’s fees as a fatal flaw that makes it unusable, opening the door for an “ETH killer” to dethrone it as the primary smart c

Yesterday, Berkshire Hathaway, the temple of 20th century industrial capitalism, led by “the Oracle of Omaha” himself, Warren Buffett, invested in the largest “neobank” in Latin America. Brazil’s Nubank has some (very) indirect exposure to cryptocurr

Bitcoin has been advertised as a viable way for getting funds to the truck convoy protestors in Ottawa when fiat-based tools like GoFundMe don't work. But it has proven to be a less-than ideal way to fund the trucker convoy. And that's a good thing for Canadian democratic society

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Decentralized Finance (DeFi) has been around for some time now, growing stronger every day. And especially since 2020, it has contributed significantly to the blockchain-cryptocurrency sector’s boom and $2.87 trillion market capitalization.

People sometimes ask me for a single reason why I think bitcoin is an attractive investment. It’s simple: Bitcoin is the hardest monetary asset ever created.By “hardest” I mean “hardest to create more of” – it’s the monetary asset in whic

What is the metaverse exactly and how should brands think about adapting to it?We asked Wan Wei, head of Ecosystem at Multiverse Labs, a decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) ecosystem based in Singapore that supports early-stage technology companies. She will appear at Cryp

While typical stock market investors are white men, 44% of bitcoin and crypto investors are non-white. Similarly, studies have shown Black and Latino Americans now outpace white Americans in bitcoin and cryptocurrency investing.But too many are writing off this emerging trend as

Last week, inflation data for the month of January was reported for the United States: The U.S. dollar lost 7.5% of its purchasing power compared to one year earlier, the biggest drop in 40 years. While this is not a good situation for the U.S. economy, one might have predicted t

I often get the sense that outside of the crypto industry most people are still skeptical about all the things grouped under the “Web 3” brand. More than skeptical, sometimes, but also downright antagonistic.Yesterday, Jared Holt, the Atlantic Council's resident exper

Bitcoin has many noisy and powerful critics. First, Bitcoin was a scam; now the bitcoin (BTC) currency is one of the national currencies of El Salvador. Then it facilitated illegal activity, even though cash still remains a criminal’s best friend. Now they say it’s an

It’s the “Year of the Tiger” and many are postulating 2022 as “the biggest year” yet for the metaverse—the next step in the inevitable evolution of the digital frontier.

Like any really happening conference, ETHDenver is impossible to experience in full. It’s hard to even really tell when it begins and ends. Events have been going on for roughly a week, but the official kickoff day is Thursday.So first, for those of you about to arrive, a c

For anyone looking to understand this new system and its potential, this article will demonstrate how DeFi is transforming finance, starting by highlighting traditional finance’s shortcomings before reviewing recent DeFi adoption milestones.

Today, a week after Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin doubled down on his belief in rollups, I hoped it might be useful to provide an introduction to the technology behind rollups and the different approaches used in their implementation.So, as defined by the Ethereum Foundatio

What do you actually get when you buy an NFT?You own a unique token on a blockchain that references some off-chain data. The token is non-fungible (unique) and immutable (being on a blockchain). That’s all that an NFT guarantees: You own a unique and unchangeable reference

Bitcoin has come a long way since its pseudonymous founder warned against people sending the nascent digital currency to the notorious data leaker WikiLeaks. “WikiLeaks has kicked the hornet's nest, and the swarm is headed towards us,” Satoshi Nakamoto said on the Bit