Some in the Bitcoin community question bitcoin.org co-owner Cøbra’s ability to ethically manage the website and are calling for the mysterious entity to step down or be ousted. What’s the beef? Is this just more FUD?
<h1>Google’s Open Source Data Transfer Project Promises Portability</h1>
It’s an impressive step forward but seems to ignore the major concerns of the last few years: privacy and security.
<h1>‘Robin Hood’ And Robinhood To Host SDCC Cryptocurrency Scavenger Hunt</h1>
The marketing team behind the Lionsgate film “Robin Hood” has partnered with financial services company Robinhood to hold a cryptocurrency scavenger hunt during this year’s Comic-Con. But why?
<h1>My First Lesson In Solidity</h1>
Making a token is easy. Customization is where it gets tricky.
<h1>Money Laundering States Part 2: Prophetic Laws, Passports For Sale, And Unqualified CEOs In Malta</h1>
As we speak, the island of Malta’s PR machine is in overdrive. Late last month, the Maltese Parliament unanimously voted into law three cryptocurrency and blockchain bills, creating a comprehensive legal framework in support of the industry.
<h1>To Raise Capital In The Scooter-Sharing Wars, Spin Turns To Blockchain</h1>
The company is reportedly preparing a security token offering (STO).
<h1>Money Laundering States Part 1: How Malta’s Scandals Could Hinder Cryptocurrency</h1>
Malta has set out to become a hub for business and investment into cryptocurrency and blockchain development. But could its murky past and present spell disaster for adoption?
<h1>Do The Exits Of TRON And ICON Indicate Trouble Brewing For Ethereum?</h1>
Is the timing of the departures a coincidence or a reflection of deeper problems?
<h1>Bill Calling For Study Of Cryptocurrency Use In Sex Trafficking Could Do More Harm Than Good</h1>
On June 12, US legislators introduced the FIND bill, which proposes a study on how virtual currencies are being used to buy, sell, and facilitate sex and drug trafficking. If it passes, let’s hope the study is carried out with more nuance than previous legislation aimed at sex trafficking.
<h1>Is Rash Of Recent Cryptocurrency Thefts A Wake-Up Call For Better Security?</h1>
In light of the increase in exchange and wallet hacks, and even a few armed robberies, should the crypto community be looking for bank-like or commodity-level security for cryptocurrencies?
<h1>RBI’s Admission That Cryptocurrency Ban Wasn’t Based On Research Suggests Prejudice</h1>
It was revealed that the Reserve Bank of India had no research-based justification for initiating its banking ban against cryptocurrency businesses. Was the ban influenced by prejudicial decision-making or negative press?
<h1>ICOs: Rethinking The Wisdom Of The Crowd</h1>
In the last year, initial coin offerings attracted billions of dollars in cryptocurrency capital from retail investors. Some folks have hailed ICOs as democratizing startup investment opportunities, but the system is not without its flaws.
<h1>Collective Fractional Ownership: A Proposed Blockchain Use Case</h1>
A proposal for a (slightly) new way to use blockchain technology.
<h1>Ethereum Classic Forks Away From ‘Difficulty Bomb’</h1>
Developers for Ethereum Classic, a vestigial chain in the cryptocurrency community, have reportedly eliminated the network’s ‘difficulty bomb,’ an original feature of the Ethereum blockchain intended to make proof-of-work mining more challenging.
<h1>A Notch In The Blockchain: Gender’s Immutable Record</h1>
In a search for justice, technology is an answer – an incomplete answer – to the question of what is right.
<h1>Flexibility Is Strength: Evolving The ‘Smart’ Contract</h1>
Excited neophytes think that so-called “smart” contracts may be a panacea for all transactional or data management activities that take place in a developing technological ecosystem. It’s a mistaken assumption, but still a noble goal that could yield unexpected dividends.
<h1>Brookings Panel: Digital Currency Implications For Central Banks</h1>
This week, a distinguished panel of central bankers and academics gathered at the Brookings Institution to discuss the vast implications of digital currencies on the banks that make the world go ‘round.
<h1>CFTC’s ‘CryptoDad’ Chairman Giancarlo Views Cryptocurrency Boom As Part Of Larger Trend</h1>
J. Christopher Giancarlo’s recent speech at Vanderbilt University Law School underlined “the relevance of a principles-based approach to legal education” that is built into the architecture of decentralized networks of distributed wealth and power. He pointed out that millennials and Gen Z expect change to be “driven by technological disintermediation of distrusted institutions.”
<h1>Facebook’s Personal Data Crisis Is Ethereum’s Opportunity</h1>
Time to take a good look at those privacy settings — and also to push for further development of Ethereum’s data storage layer. If anyone’s going to control our identities on the coming Web 3.0, it should be us.
<h1>Does Cryptocurrency Need Decentralized Exchanges?</h1>
Although decentralization is one of the foundational pillars of the cryptocurrency revolution, many of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges still maintain centralized power structures. How did this paradigm come to be, what does it mean, and where is it leading the ecosystem?
