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Tron

What to Know About Tron’s BitTorrent Token Airdrop This Week

Starting Monday, Tron embarks on one of the longest airdrop experiments in history, with BTT token giveaways happening monthly into 2025.

Markets  ·  10 February 2019
Investments

What We’re Missing About Institutional Investment in Crypto Winter

Institutional investment in crypto is not as divorced from retail sentiment as many believe, writes Noelle Acheson.

Markets  ·  10 February 2019
Bitcoin

Inside the Museum of Bitcoin: An Interactive Tour of Crypto History

We took a tour of the Museum of Bitcoin, a pop-up installation at The North American Bitcoin Conference 2019. It was a trip down memory lane.

Tech  ·  9 February 2019
Security Tokens

The Security Token Market Needs Better Lingo

“STO” was coined to distinguish a compliant token offering from ICOs, but the term fails to capture all the types of security tokens.

Markets  ·  9 February 2019
Bitcoin

Cypherpunk Valentine: Why Shoppers Spend Bitcoin on Lingerie

Lingerie purchasing as a bitcoin use case is much less far-fetched than you might imagine.

Business  ·  6 February 2019
Zcash

Zcash Team Reveals It Fixed a Catastrophic Coin Counterfeiting Bug

The company behind the privacy-minded cryptocurrency zcash said Tuesday that it moved last year to fix a catastrophic bug that could have been used to print infinite coins.

Tech  ·  5 February 2019
Bitcoin

Bitcoin’s ‘Lightning Torch’ Explained: What It Is and Why It Matters

The bitcoin community is currently immersed in an experiment called the “lightning torch," and it's reached 37 countries so far.

Tech  ·  5 February 2019
Exchanges

Binance’s Crypto Winter Strategy: Build and Beef Up Partnerships

Binance is playing the long-game – investing in infrastructure and collaboration across the crypto ecosystem.

Markets  ·  4 February 2019
Exchanges

Kraken Acquires Futures Startup In Deal Worth At Least $100 Million

Kraken has inked a “nine-figure" deal that now makes it the only crypto exchange to offer regulated futures trading in Europe.

Markets  ·  4 February 2019
Privacy

The Crypto-Surveillance Capitalism Connection

If blockchain is to be a force for good, rather than a vehicle of subjugation, advocates must contend with the backlash against Big Tech.

Markets  ·  4 February 2019
Security Tokens

Security Tokens vs. Tokenized Securities: It’s More Than Semantics

Security tokens and tokenized securities are not the same thing – it's important that we recognize the difference, argues Noelle Acheson.

Business  ·  2 February 2019
Ethereum

Don’t Believe the FUD: Ethereum Can Scale

The narrative that ethereum can't scale is being actively disproved in production environments on a daily basis.

Tech  ·  2 February 2019
NEM

NEM Foundation, Nearly Broke, Plans Layoffs and Pivot

The leading non-profit behind the NEM blockchain is seeking $7.5 million in emergency funding to keep the lights on.

Business  ·  31 January 2019
Bitcoin

This Spongebob-Themed Tech Proves That Bitcoin’s Lightning Is Advancing

Spongebob Squarepants term "wumbo" has been appropriated to describe one of the next milestones for bitcoin's lightning network.

Tech  ·  30 January 2019
Coinbase

From Mar-a-Lago to Coinbase, Dubious Claims Follow Doc.com Token Sales

A CoinDesk investigation reveals that health startup Doc.com has used overstated claims to gin up investor demand.

Business  ·  29 January 2019