One Year Later, A Wave of Apps Is Emerging on Bitcoin Cash

news Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer has launched an app that rewards users for mining cryptocurrency – but not with either cash or crypto. Announced Wednesday, the app, dubbed Razer SoftMiner, allows gamers to utilize their idle graphics cards to mine for new transactions blocks on the ethereum blockchain, among other networks. While mining directly using software…

Featured SpeakerChristy Goldsmith RomeroCommissionerU.S. Commodity Futures Trading CommissionExplore the policy fallout from the 2022 market crash, the advance of CBDCs and more.Camomile Shumba is a CoinDesk regulatory reporter based in the UK. She previously worked as an intern for Business Insider and Bloomberg News. She does not currently hold value in any digital currencies or…

news The developers behind the cryptocurrency project Grin have reportedly received an anonymous donation of 50 BTC – worth an estimated $300,000. The news, shared during a weekly meeting of developers, is notable, as Grin came to market touting what it called a “fair launch,” meaning project leaders did not raise any funds via an initial…

Per investment banks, Federal Reserve policy is now sufficiently restrictive to put inflation back on track to the central bank's 2% target and does not warrant additional rate hikes.The end of the tightening cycle does not imply a quick return to zero interest rate policy, meaning the heady crypto bull market days of 2021-21 may…

Jun 22, 2020 at 16:28 UTCAngkor Wat, Krong Siem Reap, Cambodia, (Vicky T/Unsplash)Blockchain Bites: Bitmain’s $4B Valuation, Cambodia’s CBDC and BTC-e’s BustBitcoin is one of the only sources of funding available for the “pirate” science site, Sci-Hub, which is quietly engaged in war against copyrights. Despite Bitcoin’s ability to disintermediate money from politics, a new…

Despite the rejection of a bid for a bitcoin ETF, the crypto market remains confident other proposals will persevere.

On its face, the idea behind Blast doesn't seem so objectionable: a layer-2 blockchain atop Ethereum that pays interest to depositors – a differentiator that might help a new player stand out versus the current market leaders, Arbitrum, Optimism and Base, or against dozens of other competing networks.Clearly there's something attractive about the proposition, because

Apr 22, 2020 at 08:40 UTCDiamonds. (Credit: Shutterstock/MstudioG)Track-and-trace blockchain pioneer Everledger is using its technology to help the diamond industry offset its carbon footprint.The firm's new platform, being launched with India and U.S.-based Shairu & Atit Diamonds, allows diamond industry participants the option to purchase credits in carbon reduction projects. These work to counter greenhouse…

news Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro will be taken down today. At least his visage, painted on 1,000 bolivars by cryptocurrency-focused artist cryptograffiti, will be. The destruction of the artist’s newest piece – an 11-foot by 10-foot portrait of the Venezuelan leader – will happen in Cucuta, Colombia, about 500 yards from the Simon Bolivar Bridge,…