Several macro events are contributing to increased interest in Bitcoin and its price and a knock-on effect on the wider markets.
Crypto Hubs 2023: Where to Live Freely and Work Smart
With shifting regulatory regimes worldwide, crypto is on the move to find the best locales to put down roots, get licensed, register or just be. Crypto Hubs 2023, our ranking of the top 15 global crypto hubs, is a good place to start.
Berlin: The Center for Decentralized Finance – and Techno Music
When the tech hub of Europe meets a society that prizes financial autonomy, the result is a crypto community that practices the very decentralization it preaches. Case in point: Blockchain Week Berlin, the flagship annual conference of the No. 10 spot in CoinDesk’s Crypto Hubs 2023, is a self-organized, crypto-agnostic community initiative.
Bitcoin B logo lights up Germany’s tallest building in Berlin
Berliners could see the Bitcoin B projected onto the Berliner Fernsehturm tower on January 21.
Subway accepts Bitcoin, so users can get a sandwich on the Lightning Network
The largest franchise in the world, Subway, is testing out the Lightning Network layer-2 Bitcoin payments solution and receiving encouraging results in Berlin, Germany.
Ethereum price all-time high follows reduced gas costs and DeFi revival
Analysts expect Ethereum price to rally to new all-time highs after the Berlin upgrade results in a drip in gas fees and a surge in DeFi activity.
Ethereum Core Developers Eye Mid-April for ‘Berlin’ Hard Fork
The hard fork will facilitate live swapping Ethereum from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake blockchain.
Ethereum Developers Pencil In January for Eth 1.x ‘Berlin’ Hard Fork
Ethereum developers are eyeing January for the Berlin hard fork. The backwards-incompatible upgrade of the existing Eth 1.x blockchain was first set for July.
Microsoft, EU-Based Universities Say Blockchain Could Help Meet Paris Agreement Carbon Goals
A new paper from Microsoft and universities in Germany and Denmark sets out how blockchain technology could overcome issues with providing an international carbon credit market.
In Berlin, A ‘DAO Renaissance’ Begins
New tools and the rise of DeFi have made decentralized autonomous organizations, or DAOs, newly attractive to ethereum’s top developers.
Web3’s Gavin Wood Launches Kusama Network to Test Polkadot Protocol
The Web3 Foundation launched a live experimental version of the Polkadot network on Friday. Here’s what Kusama will be testing.