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feature ConsenSys spin-out BlockApps is working with Bayer Crop Science, the controversial agricultural giant formerly known as Monsanto. The multinational corporation is collaborating on several BlockApps pilot projects, CoinDesk has learned, although the firm declined to specify how many. The projects began as proof-of-concept implementations in 2018. Michael Pareles, the global digital strategy manager of…

opinion 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. ——- You may not have heard of Vertcoin, a crypto project designed to curtail concentration…

Nov 19, 2020 at 4:48 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 19, 2020 at 5:01 p.m. UTCDistribution of Bitcoin hashrate by support for Taproot activationMajority of Bitcoin Hashrate Signals Support for Taproot Scaling, Privacy UpgradeBitcoin mining pools representing over 54% of the network’s current hashrate have signaled support for the scaling and privacy protocol upgrade Taproot, merged into…

The price of ether (ETH), the native token to the Ethereum network, rose past $3,000 for the first time since April 2022 on Tuesday, continuing a recent hot streak.Ether's price rose about 1.6% over the past 24 hours and has risen over 12% in the past week, outpacing other cryptocurrencies, according to data from CoinGecko.Bitcoin's

BaFin, Germany's financial regulator, has ordered a subsidiary of Bitcoin Group (ADE) to address some shortcomings in internal anti-money laundering measures.In a notice issued to the group's Futurum Bank subsidiary in October and posted publicly on Tuesday, the regulator said it had identified "serious deficits" in internal security measures, due-diligence obligations and the suspicious-activity reporting

Feb 11, 2020 at 10:00 UTCCoinmint's bitcoin mine in Massena, New York. Source: Prieur LearyChildhood Friends Battle Over Ownership of North America’s Largest Bitcoin MineJust four years ago, two lifelong friends from New Orleans turned a small initial investment into the largest crypto miner in North America. When their company, Coinmint, bought a former Alcoa…

The U.S. congressional effort to establish regulations for stablecoins has become an increasing longshot for passage this year, but the lawmakers who've pushed legislation the farthest reportedly had a meeting with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer about it, Punchbowl News reported.House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry (R-N.C.) and the panel's senior Democrat, Rep. Maxine

The Marshall Islands has taken its bid to become a global hub for the incorporation of DAOs one step further.The tiny island nation between Australia and Hawai strengthened a previous law that recognized DAOs as legal entities, last week.The parliament of the Republic of the Marshall Islands passed legislation last week that takes its already

Han Chang-joon, the former CFO of Terraform Labs, has been extradited to South Korea by Montenegrin authorities, an official notice from Monday shows.Han was arrested with Terra co-founder Do Kwon in March 2023 while trying to travel with falsified documents. The two were sentenced to four months in prison by a Montenegro court a few