By trading oil using its own currency, ISIS planned to destabilize the US economy by forcibly decoupling the dollar from the oil business.
Sharia Goldbugs: How ISIS Created A Currency For World Domination
This North Syrian School Is a Baby Step Toward a Blockchain Society
Students in Rojava, a semi-autonomous enclave of Syria, are making up for years of lost education by studying computer code and blockchain technology.
Murder, Censorship and Syria: Crypto and the Future of Uprisings
One technologist’s imprisonment and execution in Syria exemplifies the parallel use of technology for both liberation and repression – and why bitcoin and other censorship resistant tech is needed in such areas. Meet Bassel Khartabil.
The Trolls Accused Me of ‘Crypto-Colonialism’ in Syria – I’m Listening
Cryptocurrency isn’t colonialism in Syria – it’s a step in ensuring the technological autonomy of the region.
Sand, Death and Cryptocurrency: Life in a Decentralized Syria
I’m writing from the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria. Known to sympathizers simply as Rojava – meaning West – the predominantly Kurdish region revolted against the Syrian regime in 2012 and achieved its de-facto autonomy as a result. Since then, it has pioneered a new political model named democratic confederalism, which due to its stateless, […]
The ‘Thirdening’ Approaches: How to Watch Ethereum’s Fork as It Happens
The world’s third largest blockchain by total value, ethereum, is about to upgrade its code. Here’s how you can watch the event live.
This Scaling Tech Could Let You Sync Bitcoin Straight From Your Phone
A new approach to storing bitcoin’s “state” could help significantly reduce storage requirements for users of the cryptocurrency.
What to Expect When Ethereum’s Constantinople Hard Fork Happens
Ethereum’s next system-wide upgrade, Constantinople, is expected to go live next week.
Ethereum Miner Linzhi Calls Out Project Coders for Proposed ASIC Ban
Shenzhen-based miner manufacturer Linzhi has pushed back against ethereum’s “tentative” decision to block specialized ASIC hardware.
Ethereum Developers Give ‘Tentative’ Greenlight to ASIC-Blocking Code
A ‘tentative’ consensus was reached today that ethereum’s developers will propose blocking ASIC before the blockchain’s proof-of-stake upgrade.
Ethereum’s New Radical: Glen Weyl Isn’t Vitalik But He’s Its Next Best Hope
CoinDesk profiles author Glen Weyl, whose radical ideas are reviving development on the world’s third-largest blockchian, ethereum.
Grin and Beam: A Tale of Two Coins Being Built on Bitcoin’s Mimblewimble
Mimblewimble is about to go live – not in one, but in two new cryptocurrency implementations.
This Binance-Backed Crypto Startup Wants to Anonymize Everything
Built atop a near-forgotten anonymity system named mix networks, Nym Technologies is entering the proof-of-concept phase following a 10-week incubation program with Binance Labs.
Block 7,080,000: Ethereum Devs Propose Activation Point for Next Hard Fork
Ethereum is moving closer to the activation of the long-in-the-waiting network upgrade known as Constantinople.
The Race Is On to Replace Ethereum’s Most Centralized Layer
Ethereum developers are working on numerous approaches to replacing or enhancing a popular tool for connecting to the network.
Crypto Anarchists Are Building Tools to Resist the State in Eastern Europe
A new centre for “crypto-anarchy” based in Slovakia is pushing for a return to what they believe are the technology’s core political tenets.
Ethereum Developers Are Quietly Planning an Accelerated Tech Roadmap
Internal documents show that ethereum developers are privately planning strategies to more aggressively advance the world’s third-largest blockchain.
After the Fork: How Competing Bitcoin Cash Blockchains Might Wage War
The war for bitcoin cash is only beginning.
A 7-Year Legal Fight Led This Dev to Build Unstoppable Ethereum Storage
Developer Daniel Nagy’s legal battle over a file-sharing node led him to develop ethereum’s storage layer, Swarm.
Ethereum Sets Tentative January Goal for Next Blockchain Upgrade
Ethereum developers have tentatively agreed a mid-January deadline for the network’s upcoming Constantinople hard fork.
