Tech

Governance

Taproot Update: Bitcoin Users Home In on Activation Plan, Date Still TBD

The meeting ended with rough consensus in favor of BIP8 (false), as well as with approval of two possible methods to put this BIP into motion.

Tech  ·  3 February 2021
Bitcoin

How Bitcoin’s Taproot Upgrade Will Improve Technology Across Bitcoin’s Software Stack

Scaling, privacy and custody software will all benefit from Bitcoin’s biggest upgrade in years.

Tech  ·  3 February 2021
Ethereum

Valid Points: CoinDesk’s Ethereum 2.0 Validator Is Officially Staked

Ethereum developers met Tuesday to compare research on the eventual merge of Eth 1.x and Eth 2.0.

Tech  ·  3 February 2021
Governance

Yearn Finance Votes to Inflate YFI Token Supply by 20%

The vote to mint an additional 6,666 YFI in order to fund future development on the Yearn protocol has passed.

Tech  ·  2 February 2021
Ethereum

Ethereum Miners Earned Record $830M in January

Miner revenue jumped over 120% from the previous month.

Tech  ·  2 February 2021
DeFi

DeFi Privacy Is Getting a Boost From Polkadot Parachain Manta Network

Manta Network will build MantaSwap now that it has closed a $1.1 million funding round.

Tech  ·  2 February 2021
CoinFlash

ConsenSys, Securosys Combine Tech for ‘Secure’ Way to Stake on Ethereum 2.0

The method employs Securosys' hardware security modules to keep participants' keys safe.

Tech  ·  2 February 2021
Surveillance

Facial Recognition Tech May Be Being Used Against Russian Protestors

Russian police officials may be tracking attendees at pro-Navalny protests using facial recognition tools, detainees claim.

Tech  ·  1 February 2021
Opinion

Robinhood Can’t Democratize Finance Using Old Tools

Robinhood saw the ire of traders last week because it promised to be different. It turned out to be fancy app on top of an antiquated system.

Tech  ·  1 February 2021
Bitcoin

Are You Running a Bitcoin Node?

And if you aren't, what's stopping you?

Tech  ·  29 January 2021
Cosmos

Cosmos Set to Take Lead in Blockchain Interoperability With February’s Stargate Release

The vision of "one network, many chains" could be fast approaching.

Tech  ·  28 January 2021
Bitcoin

Longtime Bitcoin Developer Jonas Schnelli Receives Open Source Grant

Jonas Schnelli joins other Bitcoin developers who are sponsored by high-caliber Bitcoin companies.

Tech  ·  28 January 2021
Agriculture

Hard-Hit Argentinian Farmers May Get Boost From Trading Platform for Tokenized Produce

Farm assets like soybeans will be tokenized on a platform from CoreLedger for trading against other assets like cattle or fiat currency.

Tech  ·  28 January 2021
China

Geopolitics at Stake in US Response to China’s Digital Yuan: Report

From privacy to political power, China’s digital yuan will have far-reaching implications.

Tech  ·  27 January 2021
Newsletters

Valid Points: What to Expect When Ethereum 2.0 Undergoes Its First ‘Hard Fork’

Here's what the impending Eth 2.0 hard fork means, and why Ethereum devs are still debating the “Ice Age.”

Tech  ·  27 January 2021