An Army of Bitcoin Devs Is Battle-Testing Upgrades to Privacy and Scaling

Last month, bitcoin mining company Core Scientific (CORZ) signed a 200 megawatt (MW) artificial intelligence (AI) deal with cloud computing firm CoreWeave, the former agreeing to modify some of its existing infrastructure to host the latter’s GPUs for high performance computing operations. Miners, bitcoiners, and technologists have been talking about the overlap of AI and

Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers can question Department of Justice witnesses about their recreational drug use during the FTX founder's fraud trial next month, a judge ruled Tuesday.Judge Lewis Kaplan, of the Southern District of New York, resolved the majority of outstanding in limine, or pretrial, motions in a 16-page order Tuesday, allowing the DOJ to admit

news Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, estimates it will spend more than $20 million this year in building Bakkt, its bitcoin futures trading and custody platform. In an earnings call for Q4, 2018, on Feb. 7, Scott Hill, ICE’s chief financial officer, said the firm’s investment in Bakkt…

news LedgerPrime, a digital asset investment firm led by former Wall Street whizzes, has closed on $12 million of institutional capital and secured commitments for another $8 million. The proprietary trading firm, which began trading in the spot and derivatives markets for cryptocurrency in the fourth quarter of 2017, is owned by Ledger Holdings Inc.,…

Dec 13, 2019 at 10:30 UTCUpdated Dec 13, 2019 at 10:24 UTCThe oldest ICOs have treasuries worth more than their tokens’ market capitalizations. Should those projects give some of that money back?That was the essential question raised by DigixDAO, which is offering its DGD token holders an all-or-nothing option: completely dissolve its treasury or keep…

news Social media behemoth Facebook is advertising for five more blockchain-related positions – adding to the 20 positions already posted by the company in the last month or so. The new blockchain-related positions, all of which are based at the company’s Menlo Park HQ in California, include: production manager, business operations manager, data scientist, software engineer and growth product…

Ryan Selkis stepped down as CEO of Messari, the crypto data and research firm he co-founded, following a series of inflammatory tweets about politics, civil war and his desire for an immigrant to get expelled from the country. He announced his departure Friday on X, the social media platform where he pumped out a flood

Brett HarrisonFounder and CEOArchitectDon't miss "FTX: What Happened" with the former president of FTX's U.S. arm and Anthony Scaramucci.Brett HarrisonFounder and CEOArchitectDon't miss "FTX: What Happened" with the former president of FTX's U.S. arm and Anthony Scaramucci.Stephen Alpher is CoinDesk's co-regional news chief, Americas. He holds BTC above CoinDesk’s disclosure threshold of $1,000.Brett HarrisonFounder and…

Oct 19, 2020 at 12:11 UTCIMF Says CBDCs Have Potential, But Don’t Solve Every IssueCentral bank digital currencies (CBDCs) may benefit countries looking to exert greater control over their monetary policy but don’t solve for every crisis, said a report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published Monday. While most of the report assessed the different…