Block.one is going to keep bots off its social media platform by checking the identity of every single user against a government ID, a source with direct knowledge of the product tells CoinDesk. The company intends to have plenty of…
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2018: When Privacy and Decentralization Collided
Guy Zyskind is the CEO and co-founder of Enigma, a secure computation protocol that integrates with blockchains. The following is an exclusive contribution to CoinDesk’s 2018 Year in Review. In 2018, two major long-term trends finally collided in a very public…
Rejection Aside, Calls for a Bitcoin ETF Are Only Escalating
Karma is real. Just as the crypto community was – not so secretly – displaying its joy over Facebook’s historic stock loss, bitcoin’s price took a surprising drop below $8,000. A reaction to the news that bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), one proposed…
Bitcoin’s Unknown ‘Kings’: The Magazine Mystery That’s Got Crypto Guessing
Bitcoin may be global, but it’s still a small community This is why a recent Fast Company South Africa story attracted international commentary – and not in a good way. After all, it isn’t every day that relative unknowns get…
Blockchains Alone Won’t Fix the Facebook Problem
Michael J. Casey is chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor of blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. Even before the questions began, one early image from Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional appearance confirmed that the hearing would focus…