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New reporting has found strong evidence Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has sought to undermine freedom of speech in the Central American nation. According to a joint investigation by Salvadoran news outlet El Faro, Toronto-based Citizen Lab and digital rights nonprofit Access

Today the primary and secondary markets for Black artists’ work are at all-time highs, driving some of the most closely watched sales in the industry.

Bitcoin (BTC) reached an all-time high of $68,940 in 2021 and since then, its price slumped nearly 36%. The big question for crypto traders is whether this is a good opportunity to buy at a bargain price, or if we are heading towards an even deeper sell-off.

Cryptocurrency has taken the investing world by storm in recent years, and many investors want a piece of the pie. However, cryptocurrency isn't for everyone. Most tokens are highly volatile, bitcoin chief among them. 

It’s pronounced E, R, C, four-six-twenty-six. ERC-4626 is a newly proposed Ethereum token standard that might resolve a sore issue in decentralized finance (DeFi): the mishmash of design types for tokens that print money.Proposed Jan. 4, ERC-4626 co-creator Joey Santoro sai

Recently, leaders from six cryptocurrency companies testified before Congress about the opportunity and promise of digital currencies and also answered lawmakers' questions about the risks that come with their use. Stablecoins were at the center of much of the discussion as these

The explosive, ten-figure growth of the NFT market over the past year will be remembered as a sea-change moment. And while it is difficult to imagine the market for new non-fungible tokens heating up forever, the rise and fall of individual objects should not damp the long-term o

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Virtual assets are expanding to almost every corner of the globe, introducing new opportunities and risks for investors, businesses and entrepreneurs. From the start, the crypto industry set out to challenge the rules of finance. By cutting out the middlemen, such as banks or cre

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics published new monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) data Wednesday, and as far as the state of the macro-economy is concerned, the numbers seem about as good as could have been expected. The rate of inflation declined in December, down to a 0.5% m

In true form, Western governments have suffered from decision paralysis in relation to cryptocurrencies. Meaningful regulation of the cryptocurrency market remains a pipe dream whilst average investors continue to suffer at the hands of the crypto Wild West.It’s time for ou

Regulators are reacting to the rapid expansion of the cryptocurrency markets, but crypto exchanges also need to incorporate surveillance into their infrastructure to ensure market integrity.

Over 9 million ETH are now deposited in the Ethereum 2.0 deposit contract. At today’s price, that is nearly $30 billion in capital looking to secure the proof-of-stake network and gain further exposure to Ethereum’s native asset.This article originally appeared in Val

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Kevin O’Leary is a centimillionaire, a businessperson on reality TV and a crypto bag holder. He’s one of many, many traditional investors with public profiles to make big moves into the crypto market last year during the biggest run-up to date. He’s invested in

We FOIA’d former Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s emails. Here’s what we found.You’re reading State of Crypto, a CoinDesk newsletter looking at the intersection of cryptocurrency and government. Click here to sign up for future editions.

Late on Sunday, Jan. 9, DeSo founder Nader Al-Naji announced that his “decentralized social media” service would update its login flow, which had been widely criticized. But experts almost uniformly argued that the update would make DeSo’s user security vastly w

There’s an old saying, “Buy land, they’re not making any more of it.” When it comes to the metaverse, that isn’t true.Artificial scarcity isn’t real. This may seem like a blindingly obvious and rather tedious observation, but it has important i

Customers don’t always behave they way companies expect them to, especially when they take their user behavior to extremes.Promising unlimited data for your phone will help you sell a lot of phone contracts, but what happens when if you use 64GB of roaming data in Brazil? T

“Web 3″ isn’t all that easy to critique, since it tends to mean different things to different people.Critiques abound, each with slightly different operating definitions of the term, but it’s rare to encounter one with the kind of technical depth you might