The World Economic Forum wants to create guidelines for data storage and distribution, in hopes of making it easier for researchers and governments to make informed decisions.
Consensus is building on one issue at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland: Cash is dead.
The Ripple CEO said at Davos an initial public offering is seen as the “natural evolution for the company,” perhaps even this year.
Most Davos experts appear to agree that blockchain technology is best for data collection rather than self-sovereign finance.
The new climate group will allow participants to share ideas for a new distributed database to track emissions.
Get your Fourth Industrial Revolution hardhats on. CoinDesk is at Davos to help you ponder the slew of problems ailing today’s global economy.
Sheila Warren, the head of blockchain for the WEF, argues the technology needs a set of principles for staving off potential misuse.
When world leaders gather in Davos next week, they'll confront an essential question, says Circle's Jeremy Allaire: Can they seize blockchain's ability to create value for people around the world?
The lens of decentralization reveals a number of elephants in the room that world leaders at the WEF are missing.
Cryptocurrencies could be at the heart of a new Cold War, at least according to some investors at the Crypto Finance Conference in St. Moritz.
What 2018 and 2019 were to blockchain and cryptocurrencies on the WEF stage (met with a healthy mix of intrigue and skepticism), 2020 will be to synthetic media, also known by the ominous-sounding euphemism “deepfakes.”
"I have long held that, were cash invented today, it would be dismissed by policymakers, bankers and law enforcement as dystopian, absurd and dangerous."
How the crypto industry can (and has) influenced the premier gathering of the world's economic and political elite.