Bitcoin bull Michael Saylor reverses remarks on self-custody after backlash

Brave hopes users will want to search the web without being tracked. Crypto-powered web browser Brave has branched out into the world of search with a new privacy-protecting beta search engine.The platform aims to take on the likes of Google, which harvests personal data and browsing habits while serving up targeted ads and tailored search…

Every Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s notePolicy changes slowly. Crypto wants to move fast. Sometimes fairly, sometimes not, the crypto industry often portrays traditional financial regulators as calcified relics unprepared to deal with the coming new world. To be fair, everyone seems to…

Coming every Sunday, the Hodler’s Digest will help you to track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions, and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekUS SEC Releases Memorandum From Meeting Over Bitcoin ETF ProposalThe…

The German-speaking world continues to see lots of developments in the crypto industry, as a Liechtenstein-based exchange is tokenizing a $25 million movie fund with actor Wesley Snipes, Austrian textile manufacturers use blockchain to go green and a Swiss crypto finance company expands its business into Asia. Here is the past week of crypto and blockchain…

On Monday, Dec. 4, the Chilean Supreme Court welcomed the decision of state-owned Banco del Estado to close the accounts of local cryptocurrency exchange Orionx. The new phase in the legal battle between the banks and several crypto exchanges — including Buda.com and CryptoMarket (CryptoMKT), which had appealed against the denial of services — may…

A report that argued for decentralized models to help scale Bitcoin eventually became the basis for the book proposal. 211 Total views 3 Total shares "In 2015, I quit my job at the tender age of 29 to do something I'd never done, which is to write a book with no idea of what would…

Europe’s data watchdog, Wojciech Wiewiórowski, predicts a sour predicament for United States-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies currently being investigated for alleged GDPR violations.“The breathless pace of development means data protection regulators need to be prepared for another scandal,” Wiewiórowski told MIT’s Technology Review during a recent interview, invoking the Cambridge Analytica scandal for reference. Wiewiórowski’s…

The number of infected Electrum bitcoin (BTC) wallets has reached 152,000 following an ongoing Denial-of-Service (DoS) attack on its servers. The development was reported by anti-malware software firm Malwarebytes in a blog post on April 29.Malwarebytes discovered that the number of infected machines in the botnet has amounted to as high as 152,000, with the…