CBDCs, stablecoins must ensure libertarian values — former CFTC chair

America’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange and wallet service Coinbase has signed up 30 million users since launching in 2012.New user signups slowed after Bitcoin price peakOver the past 12 months, Coinbase has registered eight million new users, according to data revealed by Bitcoin (BTC) investor and entrepreneur Alistair Milne in a tweet on July 22.Number of…

France’s tobacco federation, the Fédération des Buralistes, has obtained permission to sell Bitcoin (BTC) at tobacconists from January 2019, privately owned French radio network Europe 1 reported Nov. 21.In a deal with French cryptocurrency wallet provider KeplerK, beginning early next year, up to 4,000 small shops will sell Bitcoin vouchers that customers can then exchange…

Filecoin owner Protocol Labs is collaborating with the Ethereum Foundation to develop a Verifiable Delay Function (VDF). The company announced the partnership in a blog post on April 19.VDFs are a relatively new cryptographic primitive that can protect systems relying on the generation of (pseudo) random values from manipulation strategies or attack.Examples of everyday use…

The official X account for OpenAI’s ChatGPT used the same “I’m sick” post as United States President Joe Biden did before playfully mocking general intelligence.

Equilibrium is not quite ditching EOS, but Polkadot will be its new home. An EOS-based decentralized finance project, Equilibrium, has announced its plans to develop a new interoperable protocol on the Polkadot (DOT) blockchain.The project is set to develop an independent parachain connected with Polkadot, featuring an independent utility token called EQ. It acts both…

This edition of Cointelegraph’s VC Roundup features Parfin, Andrena, Blockscout, and Cartridge.

Bitcoin (BTC) investors seem concerned about the increasing speculation that China's second-largest property developer, Evergrande Group, will default on its $300 billion in debts. These fears manifest in global equities markets which saw a 1.5% to 3% drop at this morning's market open. Despite the price move, the BTC outflow (net withdrawals) from exchanges has continued…

Binance’s crypto exchange for United States-based users, Binance.US, is now available for beta testing on Android devices.In a tweet published on Dec. 25, Binance.US urged the public to participate in the beta test of the crypto trading application on Android devices. Through this testing phase, users will help Binance.US to identify possible flaws and work…

Brazilian premier league soccer club Atletico Mineiro has launched a fan token dubbed “GaloCoin,” Cointelegraph Brazil reports Friday, Dec. 14.The GaloCoin is named after Atletico’s mascot, a rooster (“galo” in Portuguese). It is based on Footcoin — a platform that allows to launch utility tokens on the Ethereum blockchain. The GaloCoin is tied to the…