Canada’s Einstein Exchange No Longer Has Bulk of Users’ Claimed CA$16M: Receiver

Following reports of Bitmain closing a $1 billion pre-IPO investment round, some notable investors have disputed their alleged participation.

The world's largest asset manager will allow two of its funds to get into bitcoin futures, as Guggenheim speculates a market pullback in the near term.(Shutterstock)Jan 21, 2021 at 5:45 p.m. UTCBlockchain Bites: Crypto in the Red, BlackRock Green Lights Bitcoin FuturesBitcoin fell to lows last seen on Jan. 11. Some analysts point to Treasury…

"People don't realize how much information is out in the open." That's Péter Szilágyi, an ethereum core developer who manages development on the ethereum software client Geth. He's referring to the fact that little attention has been paid to ethereum's underlying network layer, where information is exposed in complex, unpredictable ways. Indeed, there's an awareness of the…

Project Infinity, launched in May 2017 by NEX Group (formerly ICAP), could be the biggest bloodletting the distributed ledger sector has seen to date, having cost roughly $31.7 million and hemorrhaged dozens of jobs, former employees say. Spearheaded by Jenny Knott, former head of NEX Optimisation, the project had a grand vision of bringing the…

Yat SiuCo-Founder and Executive ChairmanAnimoca BrandsWhere is Web3 headed? Take a look to the future with this pioneering investor in the metaverse and NFTs.Yat SiuCo-Founder and Executive ChairmanAnimoca BrandsWhere is Web3 headed? Take a look to the future with this pioneering investor in the metaverse and NFTs.Elizabeth Napolitano is a news reporter at CoinDesk. Yat…

Tether is doing "the best we can" to crack down on illicit crypto use, CEO Paolo Ardoino told CoinDesk. USDT's role in illicit finance is a "drop in the ocean" compared to the U.S. dollar's, he added. The company "doesn't expect any political favors by anyone," he said of Howard Lutnick's role in Donald Trump's

Bitcoin rose above $70,000 for the first time since June in the early evening U.S. hours on Monday. It remains about 5% below its record high around $73,700 from early March of this year. Rate cutting cycles among most major economies, renewed big inflows into the spot ETFs and rising betting market odds of a

news The problem: Given 1024-bit input x, compute the verifiable delay function ‘h=x^(2^t) mod N’ as fast as possible. t=2^30 N=12406669568412474139879892740481443274469842712573568412813185506497689533 7309138910015071214657674309443149407457493434579063840841220334555160125016 3310409336906745695712173376302391915172057213101976083872398463643608502208 9677296497856968322944926681990341411705803010652807392863301711868982662559 4484331 If you can understand the above, you could be in for a portion of a $100,000 prize – that is, if you can then beat the others attempting to calculate…

"Tokenization," particularly of "real world assets," or RWAs, has recently been touted as the next big thing in crypto. Most people do not make the connection that this trend is just another form of security tokens, a term you may not have heard since 2018 (for good reason).Dave Hendricks is the co-founder and CEO of