Business / Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
-
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is buying the “custody” business of rival Xapo, in a bid to attract big investors such as ...
-
Facebook’s planned blockchain-based currency poses nettlesome questions: Is it money? Is the Libra Association a bank? http://www.wired.com/
-
In a series of tweets late Thursday, the president attacked cryptocurrencies and said Libra “will have little standing or dependability.” ...
-
China’s Bitmain said it would build the world’s largest bitcoin mine in Rockdale, Texas. Then the price of bitcoin plunged, ...
-
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is the latest regulator questioning Facebook’s plan to launch a cryptocurrency. http://www.wired.com/
-
Berkeley is considering a plan to finance big projects with “minibonds” that would be sold, and interest credited, via a ...
-
Computer science professor David Gelernter envisaged social networks long before Facebook. Now, he wants to reclaim the concept, using blockchain ...
-
For a small group of bitcoin enthusiasts, the internet is a vulnerability. They’re using satellites, ham radios, and mesh networks ...
-
Legal scholar Angela Walch calls it the “veil of decentralization,” a way for companies to obscure responsibility for their creations. ...
-
Officials in Europe and the US worry about user privacy and how Facebook will handle data stemming from its cryptocurrency. ...
