Kieran Smith
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey spent November on an extended trip through Africa, talking with Bitcoin business owners in Ghana, meeting with tech startups in Nigeria, and talking up the region’s Bitcoin prospects.
Studies on the environmental impact of Bitcoin have been polarizing - suggesting that mining is either a catastrophic waste of energy or of no concern at all. The truth is likely somewhere in the middle.
U.S. authorities arrested Ethereum researcher Virgil Griffith at Los Angeles International Airport on Black Friday on charges of conspiracy to assist North Korea with evading sanctions.
China has long dominated the Bitcoin mining industry, but a recent merger between two Western mining companies will make a small area of Texas home to the world's largest Bitcoin mine.
An announcement from China’s central bank has sent a chill through the cryptocurrency markets, suggesting bullish investors overreacted to President Xi's recent speech encouraging blockchain development.
Ethereum developers will deploy the much-anticipated Ethereum upgrade, the Istanbul hard fork, on December 4. Istanbul promises to make the network faster, cheaper, and more efficient.
Crypto-friendly Asian countries have long enjoyed both high trading volumes and proactive regulators. Now, a report from a group of Asia's largest asset managers suggests the region will be an early leader in the security token space.
As regulators around the world seek to delay Facebook's Libra, central banks are racing to launch sovereign digital currencies.
Binance, which has built several outposts around the world since being banned from serving Chinese traders in 2017, is thought to be returning to the mainland with a new office in Beijing.
As critics continue to cast doubt on a study that claims the price rally of 2017 was created by a lone whale, a report from a dedicated group of whale watchers evaluates the real impact of big traders.
