Jake Yocom-Piatt is the project lead for Decred and the creator of btcsuite — an alternative full-node Bitcoin implementation written in go whose source code has been used in several notable projects. Staking is money you don’t want to miss…
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Where to Find the Rising Stars of Bitcoin’s Developer Community
Thirteen coders and academics gathered this week at Chaincode Labs in New York City for the bitcoin protocol residency program, in what organizers say is the most intensive and diverse cohort to date. It would be hard to overstate how…
Libra Could Be Unbalanced by Indian Crypto Laws
Facebook’s rollout of Libra may be steamrolled in India by existing regulatory constraints, reported the Economic Times. Despite cryptocurrencies’ precarious standing within Indian law, the media outlet reports “Facebook has not filed any application with RBI (Reserve Bank of India)…
Senate Banking Committee Schedules July Hearing on Facebook’s Libra Crypto
The U.S. Senate Committee on on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs will hold a hearing on July 16 regarding Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, Libra. The hearing, “Examining Facebook’s Proposed Digital Currency and Data Privacy Considerations,” comes in the wake of calls…
Facebook’s Cryptocurrency Is a Nail in the Coffin for Blockchain Not Bitcoin
Edan Yago is the founder of CementDAO, an effort to bring together stablecoins into a unified ecosystem. The views expressed here are his own. With the announcement of Libra, cryptocurrency has entered the big leagues. Facebook’s entry into this market…
Tendermint Says Last Month’s Cosmos Vulnerability Exposed Security Loophole
The developers behind the Cosmos network released today a full disclosure of last month’s “critical security vulnerability” which reportedly enabled hackers to bypass certain penalties for misbehavior on the network. Zaki Manian, director at Tendermint Inc – the for-profit entity…
Justin Sun’s Crypto Lunch with Warren Buffett Is Genius Marketing at Work
Noelle Acheson is a veteran of company analysis and a member of CoinDesk’s product team. The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s own. The following article originally appeared in Institutional Crypto by CoinDesk, a free newsletter for institutional…
Bitcoin Surpasses 1 Million Daily Active Addresses
Bitcoin just passed an interesting milestone today, one we haven’t seen since November 27, 2017. According to CoinMetrics.io, there are now over a million daily active addresses, a number that is defined as the number of unique “from” or “to”…
Smart Contract Startup Tapped By Google As Blockchain Partner
Google has tapped a startup token project, Chainlink, as an official Cloud Partner and the relationship suggests a deep and detailed interest in blockchain technology by the Mountain View giant. The partnership, described in a detail Google Cloud blog post,…
New Monero Botnet Looks Like Last Year’s Outlaw Attack
There’s another Monero mining botnet that’s targeting China. Or maybe it’s one we’ve seen before. Bloggers steeped in the hacker-verse recently exposed a URL spreading a botnet that looks suspiciously like one unleashed by the Outlaw hacking group last year.…