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Dec 30, 2020 at 4:00 p.m. UTCCBDCs: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?In 1987, Nobel laureate James Tobin proposed the concept of a retail central bank digital currency. The idea was that central banks should create a public payments “medium with the convenience of deposits and the safety of currency.”It was a novel idea, which…

news QuickBit, a Swedish cryptocurrency exchange listed on the NGM Nordic MTF market, allegedly leaked 300,000 customer records via an unprotected MongoDB database. The exchange confirmed the event in a series of updates on their investor relations board. The leak, detailed by security researcher Paul Bischoff, first dame to light after security aggregator Shodan noted…

Oct 22, 2020 at 16:35 UTC(Ludovic Toinel/Unsplash)Three Trends Killing Web Privacy and DecentralizationThe World Wide Web has revolutionized human communication, but it’s under threat.We at Brave think this distributed and interlinked information system is unique among platforms for many reasons: Its design and direction aren’t controlled by any one organization. Its pages and applications are…

feature The German bank partially owned by blockchain firms Nimiq, TokenPay and the Litecoin Foundation is planning to process cryptocurrency payments for retailers starting in 2020. WEG Bank AG CEO Matthias von Hauff told CoinDesk the program is now accepting retailer applications for a sandbox test group, with applications opening to the public in early…

Fast-food chain Burger King plans to give away crypto as prizes to its customers in partnership with brokerage platform Robinhood.Starting Monday for three weeks, members of Burger King’s Royal Perks loyalty program in the U.S. who spend more than $5 on the restaurant chain’s app will be rewarded with one coin from a pool of…

Dec 27, 2019 at 12:00 UTCUpdated Dec 27, 2019 at 12:30 UTCBen Edington advises on Eth2 across ConsenSys. Ethereum’s ‘Bazaar’ Development Model Will Pay Off in 2020This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. Ben Edgington advises…

Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk's advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT's Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers. There are shifts at ShapeShift and not everyone's happy with them. When the token exchange…

Shiba Inu (SHIB) ecosystem’s upstart blockchain Shibarium will be used by the Manny Pacquaio Foundation for fundraising and operational activities starting Wednesday; developers told CoinDesk in a release.The Manny Pacquiao Foundation is a California 501 (c)(3) nonprofit led by its namesake, eight-division World Boxing Champion and former Philippine Senator Emmanuel (Manny) Pacquiao. MPF has been

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