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Blockchain technology adoption has largely been a top-down story. Here are some ideas that could get more bottom-up traction. (Ian Schneider/Unsplash)Jan 26, 2021 at 7:59 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 26, 2021 at 8:03 p.m. UTC4 Ways Blockchain Could Catapult Into the MainstreamRevolutions are the product of the masses, not the elites. Accordingly, we need to update the…

May 20, 2020 at 17:43 UTCUpdated May 20, 2020 at 17:53 UTCThe bitcoin moved Wednesday were inactive for 11 years. (Credit: Shutterstock)50 BTC Just Moved for First Time Since 2009 – But It Doesn’t Look Like SatoshiThe bitcoin market sold off more than 7% Wednesday, according to Bitstamp market data, after a Twitter bot alleged…

Mar 23, 2020 at 10:00 UTCTeddy Fusaro is the chief operating officer at Bitwise Asset Management, a cryptocurrency asset management firm in San Francisco. He has held management and leadership positions at alternative asset management companies for the past decade, and began his career at Goldman Sachs. As America battles the invisible enemy of the novel…

CryptoKitties (CryptoKitties/Medium)Dapper Labs, the team behind popular non-fungible token (NFT) game CryptoKitties, announced Tuesday it will release two cat characters inspired by the rock band Muse under its partnership with the Warner Music Group.  According to a press statement emailed to CoinDesk, the two digital cats, one of which will be signed by band members,…

Nov 27, 2020 at 3:21 p.m. UTCTreasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin (Toni L. Sandys-Pool/Getty Image)Industry Pros Weigh In on Rumors of New Crypto Wallet RegulationsRecent rumors about U.S. regulation of private, self-hosted crypto wallets have some compelling context.For example, the proposal submitted last month by U.S. authorities to lower the anti-money laundering (AML) threshold for…

Jan 5, 2021 at 5:50 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 5, 2021 at 6:28 p.m. UTCCulebra, Puerto Rico(Wenhao Ryan/Unsplash)The Pandemic Was Just the CatalystIn his 2017 book, “Zero Hour: Turn the Greatest Political and Financial Upheaval in Modern History to Your Advantage,” Harry Dent forecast a catastrophic economic crash would hit us no later than early-2020. Dent saw…

news The U.K. Parliament has been presented demonstrations of real-world blockchain applications designed to educate policymakers. Organized by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Blockchain (APPG Blockchain), the Monday event featured live presentations from four firms working in the blockchain industry: IOTA, Oracle, Everledger and Lloyd’s of London. Among the audience were members of parliament, government officials…

The Solana Foundation is disputing the U.S. Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) classification of its SOL token as an unregistered security.Earlier this week, the SEC filed lawsuits against crypto exchanges Binance.US and Coinbase, which charged the exchanges with trading Crypto Asset Securities, including SOL.“The Solana Foundation strongly believes that SOL is not a security,” the…

Grayscale Investments has told the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission it has "no grounds" to reject the conversion of its Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) into an exchange-traded fund.The SEC was last week ordered to review its prior rejection of the conversion in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, with Circuit Judge Neomi Rao agreeing with