Blockchain

Poly Network Offers $500,000 Reward to Hacker Who Stole and Then Returned $611 Million in Crypto

The strange saga of one of the largest crypto heists in recent memory continues.

Privacy & Security Lucas Ropek Aug 13

The Cryptocurrency Lobby Is a New Major Climate Enemy

Lobbyists fought hard against the infrastructure bill. They haven't yet been successful, but the fight's not over yet.

Conservation Dharna Noor Aug 11

Controversial Crypto Tax Amendment May Be Fixed in the 11th Hour

Senators across the aisle have come up with a change to the crypto tax reporting amendment in the infrastructure bill.

Tech News Whitney Kimball Aug 9

Crypto Industry Still Angry at Part of Senate Infrastructure Bill Increasing IRS Reporting Requirements

Industry groups say the Senate doesn't understand some of the information can't be reported because users are anonymous.

Tech Policy Tom McKay Aug 2

Ethereum Founder Donated $1 Billion to Fight Covid in India, but Only $20 Million Has Been Spent

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated one trillion Shiba Inu coins to aid pandemic-ravaged India, but several factors have slowed the funds down.

Tech News Tom McKay Jul 28

Uh Oh, ‘Woman Dr. Bitcoin’ Says It’s ‘Judgement Day for Crypto’ in China

The ongoing crackdown on cryptocurrency throughout China took one step further over the weekend, with popular social media site Sina Weibo terminating a number of major crypto accounts. Sina Weibo, which is often compared to Twitter, is by far China’s largest social network and is heavily monitored by state authorities that censor information that the…

Tech News Tom McKay Jun 7

El Salvador Is Set to Become the First Country to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender

El Salvador may soon become the first sovereign nation in the world to adopt bitcoin as a legal tender, Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele announced Saturday. “Next week I will send to Congress a bill that will make bitcoin a legal tender in El Salvador,” he said in a video broadcast at the Bitcoin 2021 conference…

Tech News Alyse Stanley Jun 6

Square Will Invest $5 Million to Build an Open-Source, Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining Facility

Square, the digital payments firm led by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, is teaming up with blockchain technology provider Blockstream Mining to build an open-source, solar-powered bitcoin mining facility at one of Blockstream’s U.S. sites. Square will invest $5 million in the facility, which will be a “proof-of-concept for a 100% renewable energy Bitcoin mine at…

Cryptocurrencies Alyse Stanley Jun 5

PayPal Will Let Users Transfer Bitcoin to Third-Party Wallets

In spite of the environmental and regulatory ills that generally come with crypto as a currency, PayPal’s bitcoin ambitions keep on ramping up. On Wednesday, Jose Fernandez da Ponte—the company’s VP of all things blockchain—confirmed in an interview that PayPal-ers will soon be able to withdraw their crypto into any wallet they want. While the…

Tech News Shoshana Wodinsky May 27

Signal Is Adding a New Privacy-Focused Payments Feature

Most of us might be familiar with Signal as the privacy-preserving messaging app of choice, but the company is expanding into a new frontier: payments. Signal announced on Tuesday that as a part of its latest beta, it’s adding support for a new Signal Payments feature that allows Signal users to send “privacy focused payments…

Privacy & Security Shoshana Wodinsky Apr 6

Creator Shuts Down Popular Crypto Art Carbon Calculator for ‘Abuse and Harassment’

Cryptoart.wtf, the popular crypto art carbon calculator that allowed us to see the real impact the NFT buying craze is having on our poor planet, is shutting down. Its creator, Memo Akten, stated that he decided to take the site down after information from it was used “as a tool for abuse and harassment.” In…

Earther Jody Serrano Mar 13

Terry Crews Has His Own Cryptocurrency Because Why Not?

Soon you could be spending money minted by Terry Crews—certainly an exciting piece of news if that’s been an ambition of yours. The former NFL player, actor, and game show host just launched his own social currency via the startup Roll, a platform that allows so-called “creatives” to crypto-monetize themselves and their own content via…

Tech News Lucas Ropek Mar 11

Beeple’s $69 Million NFT Sale Is a Good Time to Rethink Some Things

“It’s hard to be like, ‘Oh man, I hope it doesn’t flop!’” artist Mike Winkelmann aka Beeple chortled at the kickoff of his “Christie’s Closing Party” Clubhouse session this morning, about an hour before his Christie’s sale would close with the staggering bid of $69,346,250—making it the third-most valuable sale by a living artist. In…

Tech News Marina Galperina Mar 11

How to Use a Hardware Wallet to Store Your Crypto

Keeping your cryptocurrency in the exchange where you bought it, be it Kraken, Coinbase, or Gemini, is inherently dangerous. Most of us will dip a toe into the crypto markets by visiting one of these markets and buying a few hundred dollars in currency. But then what do you do with it? Well, you can…

Gadgets John Biggs Mar 8

Atari Says It’s Launching a Crypto Casino Based on Its Old Games

In a move that’s not at all desperate, Atari claims it will be launching an online casino in May. More specifically, an Ethereum blockchain casino built around “Atari-themed games.” The venture is a partnership with Decentral Games, and according to the company’s blog, the Atari Casino will feature nostalgia-tinged games, with some being luck-based, while…

Tech News Victoria Song Mar 8

A Chinese Province Could Ban Bitcoin Mining to Cut Down Energy Use

Over the past decade, bitcoin has put increasing stress on the largely coal-powered grid of China’s Inner Mongolia. Now, the province is clamping down. Late last week, province officials announced plans to ban all new bitcoin and other cryptocurrency mining ventures and quickly phase out existing activity in order to reduce electricity consumption. Cryptocurrency is…

Earther Dharna Noor Mar 3

Exiled WallStreetBets Mods Want to Make a Blockchain-Based Hedge Fund

As praises from celebrity investors and movie deals rained on the subreddit/memestock trading floor WallStreetBets, its two contingents of its moderators went to war, each accusing the other of profiteering off the community’s newfound fame. Now, those beaten in the squabble intend to start a competing community which will act like a “decentralized hedge fund.”…

Tech News Whitney Kimball Mar 2

Topps Is Bringing High-End Pop Culture Brands to Blockchain

From bike-spoke decoration to glass-case collectible, the world of trading cards is always evolving. In recent years they made a jump from physical to digital with the help of companies like Topps, and now the next evolution will see those cards spread out in a whole new way. Earlier this year Topps, the company behind…

Toys & Collectibles Germain Lussier Jan 8

Atari’s Vaporware Console Is Getting Blockchain-Based Games

In what is certain to be one of the least promising moves in console gaming in 2020, Atari has partnered with a company called Ultra Gaming to offer blockchain-based game streaming to its forthcoming VCS console. The fabled Atari VCS has long been a bit of fun vaporware that is currently suffering from shipping issues…

Tech News John Biggs Sep 24

YouTube Restores Hundreds of Cryptocurrency Videos After Flagging Them as Harmful

YouTube has restored hundreds of videos from dozens of channels that focus on crypotcurrency after they were removed earlier in the week. YouTubers like Chris Dunn report that their videos were flagged by YouTube for “harmful or dangerous content” and “sale of regulated goods.” YouTube now says that the deletions were a mistake. “With the…

Tech News Matt Novak Dec 27

Poly Network Offers $500,000 Reward to Hacker Who Stole and Then Returned $611 Million in Crypto

The Cryptocurrency Lobby Is a New Major Climate Enemy

Controversial Crypto Tax Amendment May Be Fixed in the 11th Hour

Crypto Industry Still Angry at Part of Senate Infrastructure Bill Increasing IRS Reporting Requirements

Ethereum Founder Donated $1 Billion to Fight Covid in India, but Only $20 Million Has Been Spent

Uh Oh, ‘Woman Dr. Bitcoin’ Says It’s ‘Judgement Day for Crypto’ in China

El Salvador Is Set to Become the First Country to Adopt Bitcoin as Legal Tender

Square Will Invest $5 Million to Build an Open-Source, Solar-Powered Bitcoin Mining Facility

PayPal Will Let Users Transfer Bitcoin to Third-Party Wallets

Signal Is Adding a New Privacy-Focused Payments Feature

Creator Shuts Down Popular Crypto Art Carbon Calculator for ‘Abuse and Harassment’

Terry Crews Has His Own Cryptocurrency Because Why Not?

Beeple’s $69 Million NFT Sale Is a Good Time to Rethink Some Things

How to Use a Hardware Wallet to Store Your Crypto

Atari Says It’s Launching a Crypto Casino Based on Its Old Games

A Chinese Province Could Ban Bitcoin Mining to Cut Down Energy Use

Exiled WallStreetBets Mods Want to Make a Blockchain-Based Hedge Fund

Topps Is Bringing High-End Pop Culture Brands to Blockchain

Atari’s Vaporware Console Is Getting Blockchain-Based Games

YouTube Restores Hundreds of Cryptocurrency Videos After Flagging Them as Harmful

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