Blockchain Controversial military spending bill NDAA proposes blockchain for national defensedecrypt.co - Nicholas Marinoff Can blockchain technology be used in the name of national defense? The U.S. government aims to find out. Buried within the annual military defense …
Square Crypto completes developer team to “improve” Bitcoindecrypt.co - Robert Stevens Square Crypto, the crypto arm of the payments company run by Twitter founder CEO Jack Dorsey, has hired three new software engineers, it announced …
ProgPow advocate uninvited to Ethereum Summit over links to Craig Wrightdecrypt.co - Jeff Benson Craig Wright, anonymous developers, and a potential Ethereum split: Just your typical Tuesday in Ethereum on Twitter. Yesterday, ETC Cooperative …
Edward Snowden DOJ lawsuit over tell-all book is good for Bitcoin, says Edward Snowdendecrypt.co - Nicholas Marinoff NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden is being sued by the Justice Department over the sale of his new memoir, “Permanent Record.” But Snowden’s potential …
NBA SportsCastr, backed by NBA’s David Stern, will pay you in crypto for your terrible hot takesdecrypt.co - Nicholas Marinoff If you like sports, you probably have some strong opinions about your favorite teams or players. Now, you can get paid in crypto for putting them on …
Ethereum Aztec gears up for private transactions on Ethereumdecrypt.co - Tim Copeland TEL AVIV—“Private transactions”—which cloak the identity of the participants—are finally coming to the Ethereum mainnet. Aztec, a London-based …
Blockchain Draper-backed Unstoppable Domains is giving away $250,000 in grantsdecrypt.co - Nicholas Marinoff Imagine creating a website that you controlled entirely, could never be shut down by a third party, and also served as your personal cryptocurrency …
Technology Facebook’s David Marcus: Libra is no threat to sovereign fiat currenciesdecrypt.co - Nicholas Marinoff France, Germany, China, the United States—and just about every other country on Earth—they’ve all got Libra all wrong, according to Facebook’s David …
Bitcoin Bitcoin’s hashrate exceeds 100 exahashes per seconddecrypt.co - Will Heasman At the start of September, reports of bitcoin's burgeoning hashrate were bouncing around the crypto ecosystem as hashing power exceeded 85 EH/s; …
Catalonia Catalonias decentralized identity system is about politics, not blockchaindecrypt.co - Jose Antonio Lanz Catalonia, an embattled, semi-autonomous province in the northeast region of Spain, revealed plans earlier this week for a blockchain-based, …
ATMs Venezuela just got its first Bitcoin ATMdecrypt.co - Jose Antonio Lanz After years of waiting, and despite a relatively high and impressive volume of Bitcoin trading, Venezuela has finally got its very first Bitcoin …
Ethereum Classic Ethereum Classic Atlantis upgrade makes ETC more like ETHdecrypt.co - Jeff Benson Ethereum hard forked today. No, not that Ethereum–the other one, Ethereum Classic. With the Ethereum core devs still ironing out details for this …
U.S. Treasury U.S. Treasury: crypto could be “next frontier” in the war on terrordecrypt.co - Nicholas Marinoff A U.S. Treasury official yesterday reconfirmed the government’s concern that cryptocurrencies are being used to fund terrorist organizations and …
Binance Binance futures trading will go live Fridaydecrypt.co - Tim Copeland Binance has revealed its upcoming futures platform, where traders can bet on the price of Bitcoin going up or down, will officially open tomorrow to …
Hyperledger ConsenSys joins Hyperledger to help build enterprise blockchainsdecrypt.co - Tim Copeland Ethereum-focused development firm ConsenSys has joined Hyperledger as a premium member. Hyperledger—run by the Linux Foundation—is an open-source …
Energy Thailand’s national utility launches Ethereum-based renewable energy platformdecrypt.co - Nicholas Marinoff Thailand’s state-owned energy company, PTT, has partnered with the nonprofit Energy Web Foundation to create a new blockchain-based renewable energy …
Coinbase Coinbase mulls proprietary token for IEO platform — reportdecrypt.co - Ben Munster Coinbase is considering launching a proprietary token that would figure into a prospective platform for “initial exchange offerings.” Speaking to …
Lotteries PoolTogether’s Ethereum-based no-loss lottery is back, with a twistdecrypt.co - Seth Goldfarb Let’s face it: savings accounts are about as interesting as watching paint dry. But a new Ethereum-based “no-loss lottery” called PoolTogether aims to …
Internet Substratum burns through $13 million in ICO funds in two years, lays off staffdecrypt.co - Jaime Chacon Substratum entered the crypto scene in 2017 with big dreams—a vision to recreate a “a free and fair Internet.” And it raised some big money to do …
Coin Collecting XRPs weekly transaction value rises 60%decrypt.co - Nawaz Sulemanji The average amount of value being transferred over the XRP network has shot up this week, in part due to a large transfer from Ripple to its …
travel news CipherTrace has a slim fix for crypto’s FATF travel rule problemdecrypt.co - Nicholas Marinoff Blockchain security firm CipherTrace today announced that it is finally ready to release its purported solution to help cryptocurrency firms comply …
Cryptocurrency Crypto exchange Gemini launches institutional-grade custody solutiondecrypt.co - Tim Copeland Crypto exchange Gemini—owned by the Winklevoss twins—has today created an insured custody service for 18 cryptocurrencies. The offering will expand …
Mining Bitcoins hashrate rises to even higher levelsdecrypt.co - Nawaz Sulemanji Bitcoin's mining network has again hit a new all-time high of just under 95 exahashes per second. The mining hashrate is a measure of the current …
People's Bank of China China aims to stop Facebook from surveilling your money, so it can do it firstdecrypt.co - Jose Antonio Lanz If the possibility of Facebook and friends controlling your private data and financial history is a little too cringy for you, you’re not alone: …
Governance Explained: Bancor unloads some $2.3 million ether on users to encourage decentralized governancedecrypt.co - Ben Munster Decentralised exchange protocol Bancor will soon be airdropping what could amount to millions of dollars’ worth of ether onto holders of its …
Privacy Chainlink CEO: How “Mixicles” can change the game for smart contract privacydecrypt.co - Adriana Hamacher Chainlink wants to make smart contracts more attractive for enterprise. The oracleprovider is tackling the privacy concerns companies cite for …
Facebook EU regulators criticize Facebook over latest data leakdecrypt.co - Robert Stevens Facebook has suffered another major data breach, exposing the personal information of 210 million Facebook users. It follows the 2018 data breach in …
Marshall Islands Marshall Islands to issue state-backed cryptocurrency despite IMF pressuredecrypt.co - Jose Antonio Lanz Year-long plans by the Republic of the Marshall Islands to escape its dependence on the U.S. dollar and issue its own state-backed cryptocurrency …
Ethereum Istanbul hard fork may lead to broken Ethereum contractsdecrypt.co - Jeff Benson At the August 23 Ethereum Core Devs Meeting, Martin Holst Swende was unapologetic about the ramifications of Ethereum Improvement Proposal (EIP) …
