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news Walmart has reasserted its interest in blockchain-backed drones with a recent patent application. Commerce giant Walmart filed for an application entitled “Cloning Drones Using Blockchain” in January 2019 with the United States Patent and Trademark Office publishing the patent on August 1. The patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) blockchain-based coordination system was published the…

One of the founders of the cypherpunk movement has just revealed new technology that he believes will revolutionize cryptocurrency from this moment on. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, the grey-haired, digital money pioneer David Chaum is launching a new cryptocurrency Elixxir via his startup. And his goals are bold. By using cryptographic techniques he invented decades…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Marina Lammertyn is a CoinDesk reporter based in Argentina, where she covers the Latin American crypto ecosystem. She holds no crypto.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.La adopción de stablecoins en…

Oct 30, 2020 at 10:36 UTCUpdated Oct 30, 2020 at 10:41 UTCHuawei’s Mate 40 Phone to Ship With Digital Yuan WalletChina’s digital yuan looks closer than ever to launch with the news that Huawei will be supporting the central bank digital currency (CBDC) on an upcoming range of phones.Announced on Huawei's Weibo channel Friday, the…

Now that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has failed to appeal its August court loss over Grayscale’s application to convert its Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) into a spot exchange traded fund (ETF), both Grayscale and the crypto industry are mulling next steps.“The Grayscale team remains operationally ready to convert GBTC to an ETF upon

BitForex will come back online to process withdrawals. The exchange's team were detained and investigated by police in China on Feb. 23. All operations and services will cease after withdrawals take place. 07:56 Why Bitcoin Miners Have Flocked to Texas 05:15 Bitcoin Slips to $29K Level Amid WSJ Report on Binance 13:59 Sen. Tuberville on

Strong hands backed ether's rally to record highs, on-chain data suggests.Ether prices over the last week.(CoinDesk 20)Jan 25, 2021 at 11:29 a.m. UTCBig Investors Stacked up Ether as Price Rose to Record HighStrong hands look to be backing the recent rally to record highs for Ethereum’s ether cryptocurrency.The number of whale addresses (those holding at…

Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange by daily trading volume, has hired former General Electric and Edelman executive Patrick Hillmann as its first chief communications officer, the company announced Thursday.Binance said Hillmann will be responsible for leading its global communications and public affairs division as the exchange continues to grow.Hillmann will oversee Binance’s corporate communications, public…

Oct 20, 2020 at 09:20 UTCNational Stock Exchange of Australia (NSX), a stock exchange company that has built a distributed ledger technology-based trading system, says it has cleared initial hurdles and is just a step away from being permitted to connect to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).NSX announced Tuesday that its DLT-based Digital Exchange Subregister…