Nvidia Reports ‘Substantial Decline’ in GPU Sales to Crypto Miners

A token that’s designed to fool users into thinking it's an authentic version of Aptos temporarily shut down services on Korean exchange Upbit for the APT token after some were able to deposit and cash out the counterfeit coin.According to on-chain data, the token, which originated from the airdrop scam site ClaimAPTGift.com, is held by

Jan 12, 2020 at 07:23 UTCEthereum classic image via CoinDesk archivesEthereum Classic successfully completed the “Agharta” hard fork at block number 9,573,000 at 06:26 UTC on Sunday, according to etcnodes.org.Similar to the network’s last backwards-incompatible upgrade in September, Atlantis, Agharta makes ethereum classic more interoperable with sister-chain ethereum. As part of the hard fork, the…

NEWS Sep 17, 2018 at 15:30 UTC  |  Updated  Sep 17, 2018 at 15:32 UTC Internet security provider Cloudflare is introducing a new product to help users more easily access the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), the decentralized storage protocol developed by Protocol Labs. In a blog post Monday, Cloudflare announced it was launching a "Crypto Week,"…

May 12, 2020 at 15:59 UTCUpdated May 12, 2020 at 16:10 UTCMauritius is located in the Indian Ocean and has a population of 1.2 million. (Credit: Shutterstock)Mauritius Central Banker Confirms Island’s Digital Currency PlansThe Bank of Mauritius is inching closer to issuing a retail-focused central bank digital currency (CBDC), its governor confirmed Tuesday.Speaking at CoinDesk's…

May 11, 2020 at 11:19 UTCUpdated May 11, 2020 at 16:20 UTCChina leads in the world in the development of national digital currencies. While other central banks are talking about central bank digital currencies (CBDC), the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) is already trialling its toolkit. Just recently, screenshots emerged of a “digital yuan” interface…

news Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is expanding crypto-to-crypto conversions and trading services to 11 more countries. The San Francisco-based firm announced the news in a blog post on Wednesday, saying that customers in Argentina, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Chile, India, Hong Kong, South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines and New Zealand can now access crypto-to-crypto exchanging services. The…

Decentralized cross-chain protocol Frax Finance's domain was hijacked early Wednesday, and while the site currently points to the correct nameserver and loads the real Frax user interface, it can't figure out what exactly happened."The current nameserver belongs to us and the real Frax UI," Frax founder Sam Kazemian told CoinDesk. "But since we haven't heard

Jan 12, 2021 at 12:00 a.m. UTCUpdated Jan 12, 2021 at 12:15 a.m. UTCPirated Academic Database Sci-Hub Is Now on the ‘Uncensorable Web’After her website faced repeated domain name revocations, Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has registered her website on the distributed domain names network Handshake.The pirated database of academic papers is now accessible directly through…

Dec 9, 2020 at 1:01 p.m. UTC(Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)Mastering Blockchain: A Virtual Book Launch in a Physically Distant Yet Still-Connected WorldThere is a shared sense that the world has shifted. “Mastering Blockchain: Unlocking the Power of Cryptocurrencies, Smart Contracts, and Decentralized Applications” by Daniel Cawrey and Lorne Lantz from O’Reilly Media is a masterful…