Featured

Ledger’s Vault Scores $150 Million in Crypto Insurance From Lloyd’s Syndicate

The move is another sign that the insurance industry is gradually becoming comfortable writing coverage for digital assets.

Policy & regulation  ·  14 November 2019

You Can Now Prove a Whole Blockchain With One Math Problem – Really

According to Electric Coin Company research, you can prove the whole bitcoin blockchain in less space than a bitcoin blockhead, only 80-bytes of data.

Markets  ·  14 September 2019
Security

Facebook’s Libra Lacks Foundational Components for Crypto Key Security

After a review of documentation for the Libra protocol and its planned ecosystem, Steven Sprague believes Facebook left out key security components.

Business  ·  7 July 2019
Bitcoin

Bitcoin and Blockchain: The Tangled History of Two Tech Buzzwords

The word "blockchain" isn't used in the bitcoin white paper, the document that started it all. So, how did the term take off as a buzzword?

Business  ·  19 May 2019
Bitcoin

About That Orange B… The History of Bitcoin’s Logos

Can a logo symbolize the ethos of a project? An industry? An entire movement? Bitcoin's might have come close.

Tech  ·  18 May 2019
Brexit

Is It Time for a Blockchain Brexit?

The U.K. is on the brink of a previously unthinkable 'hard Brexit' from the European Union. A solution could be found in the capabilities of blockchain.

Business  ·  8 April 2019
Bitcoin

I Got the Mark of the Beast – And It Will Hold My Bitcoin

There's a lot of overlap between bitcoiners and body hackers. CoinDesk editor Bailey Reutzel traveled to Austin, Texas to explore that crossroads and become a bitcoin holding (literally) cyborg.

Tech  ·  15 March 2019
Data Analysis

The Virtuous Circle of Market Data

The growth of data analytics is about more than extracting insights from bits and bytes – it’s about the role of markets, argues Noelle Acheson.

Markets  ·  10 March 2019
Art

Bolivars to Bitcoin: Activists Take Down Venezuela’s Maduro in Crypto Art Exhibit

As the situation in Venezuela continues to escalate, artist cryptograffiti, crypto exchange AirTM and merchant services provider Cripto Conserje have teamed up for an all-day fundraiser to tear down – in whatever way they can – Maduro's regime.

Markets  ·  26 February 2019
Bitcoin

Validators Create New Attack Vectors for Decentralized Systems

Bounty0x CMO Pascal Thellman discusses some of the potential security and incentives issues with validators on proof-of-stake networks.

Tech  ·  24 February 2019
Exchanges

Token Issuers Must Stop Paying for Market Making

It's time for the crypto world to adopt the best practices of the traditional public securities exchanges, including rules on ethics and fair dealing.

Policy & regulation  ·  3 February 2019
Dapps

Why ‘Mainstream Adoption’ Is an Unfair Success Metric for Dapps

We are way too early for “mainstream adoption” to be a sensible success metric for dapps, says Coleman Maher.

Tech  ·  19 January 2019
Tron

BitTorrent’s Master Plan to Bring a Tron-Powered Crypto Token to the Masses

BitTorrent has the user base, Tron has the crypto. The new BitTorrent Token (BTT) white paper explores ways to marry the two.

Markets  ·  8 January 2019
Exchanges

Stable Times at Circle: A Crypto Startup Counted Out Is Riding High

CoinDesk profiles Jeremy Allaire, the CEO of the Goldman Sachs-backed crypto startup Circle that had a banner year in 2018.

Markets  ·  31 December 2018
Twitter

The FUD Stompers: Like It or Not, XRP Army Is Winning Crypto’s Hashtag War

The XRP Army is hands-down crypto's most vocal community. Who are they?

Tech  ·  31 December 2018