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Japan’s Third-Largest Electric Provider Is Testing Bitcoin On Lightning
Japan’s third-largest electricity provider is emerging as one of the first major companies in the world to trial a promising bitcoin payments technology. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, Chubu Electric Power Co. has entered into a proof-of-concept with local bitcoin and Internet…
A Bitcoin Twitter War Is Raging And No Account Is Safe
“Paging @Bitcoin. These tweets don’t help anyone.” At first glance, the tweet, from investor and entrepreneur Nick Tomaino, might not be distinguishable in the all-out flame war that crypto Twitter – and all crypto social media – has become. But…
Crypto All-Stars Turn Out for ‘Truth Machine’ Debut
There seems to be an audible buzz. It’s been a long, hard game. Three players, all above six-feet tall, look to their coach. “Downtown” Josh Brown steps to the free-throw line. “It’s very easy to think your way out of…
8 Ways Telegram Thinks Its Own ICO Could Go Wrong
If Telegram’s ambitious blockchain project fails, investors can’t say they weren’t warned. Along with the white paper and technical documents, prospective buyers in what could be one of the largest-ever initial coin offerings (ICOs) have received a nine-page memorandum spelling…
Will Lightning Help or Hurt Bitcoin Privacy?
Faster, cheaper bitcoin transactions? Check. But at what cost? For bitcoin users, many of whom were drawn to cryptocurrency for its promise of financial sovereignty, bitcoin is still synonymous with privacy. But the gap between the vision and the reality,…
No, Not All ICOs Are Securities
Paul Paray is an attorney in Allendale, New Jersey, focused on privacy and technology matters. In his Feb. 8 opinion piece for CoinDesk, Santander’s Julio Faura suggests that “utility tokens are a bad idea” because it would be a “lie…
In 10 Years We Won’t Have Blockchains
Will Murphy is the vice president for blockchain at of Talla.com, the company behind Botchain, a blockchain for managing autonomous intelligent agents. I predict that in 10 years blockchain technology will improve to a level that calling it “blockchain” will no longer…
Crypto Jobs? Where We’re Going We Won’t Need Jobs
Kade Morton is a security consultant and open source enthusiast. In his spare time, when he isn’t volunteering for Mozilla, he’s working on his own open-source decentralized application, Aletheia. Follow him on twitter @cypath In a recent CoinDesk op-ed, Sandro Ro…
7 Trends Shaping the Evolving ICO Economy
Sure, there were white papers, prototypes and theories, but in the land of ICOs, 2017 was largely about one thing – money – and lots of it. Entering 2018, those closest to the sector, the area of the industry that’s…