By the end of 2019, at least $128 million in bitcoin had been paid to ransomware hackers. That's not good optics for a payment system.
We should stop trying to classify cryptocurrency as a beast from another planet. Rather, we just need to accept it as the future of money.
The extreme surveillance measures taken to address COVID-19 are not normal or inevitable.
Recent election tech foul-ups have people scrambling for paper ballots. But they're not really the future of voting, says Intercoin's Greg Magarshak.
Coronavirus could coerce us into a new era of productivity, where we finally leverage digital collaboration tools to their full potential.
A Beijing lawyer calls on the SEC to consider Hester Peirce's Safe Harbor proposal, which exempts startups from securities law while starting up. Without greater certainty around token sales, the U.S. risks falling behind other jurisdictions in blockchain commerce.
Noelle Acheson looks at the evolving role of central banks in the context of the current crisis, and what that could mean for crypto.
From protecting your staff to planning a succession, here's a six-point plan to staying out of legal trouble during the pandemic.
Rather than build an alternative currency like Libra, Facebook should concentrate on building new infrastructure, like the open systems in the ethereum-DeFi space, says ConsenSys's Lex Sokolin.
Until the value investing revolution led by Graham and Dodd, investors often gambled rather than invest rationally. Crypto has yet to go through a similar change, but it's started, says Arca CIO Jeff Dorman.
CoinDesk's Noelle Acheson points out the real narrative shift is in the broader market, not bitcoin.
The gig economy is unfair to many workers. We need tokenized co-operatives, says Gys Hough, a Dutch VC.
The idea of everyone issuing their own tokens, and transacting freely without government involvement, is nothing but a lovely dream.
An only-partial court victory and the possibility of legislation banning crypto mean the industry’s legal status in India remains vulnerable.
The online environment is inundated with information, and it's impossible to tell the fake from the real, says Microsoft's blockchain chief.