Don’t Expect New Bitcoin Highs in 2018
While bullish on bitcoin’s long-term prospects, an economist and investor heeds caution for more short-term price optimism.
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Dogecoin
Dogecoin is a parody cryptocurrency created by Australian entrepreneur Jackson Palmer and software engineer Billy Markus in 2013. In an interview, Palmer said the idea for the project came from two internet tabs he had open on his computer at the time: one with a viral internet meme of a Japanese Shiba Inu “doge,” and…

Polygon Co-Founder Jaynti Kanani Steps Down
Co-founder of Ethereum layer 2 Polygon Jaynti Kanani has said he is stepping back "from the day-to-day grind" of working on the network.Kanani, who founded Polygon in 2017 alongside Sandeep Nailwal and Anurag Arjun, announced his plans in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, saying he "decided to step back" about six months

BlackRock Enters Asset Tokenization Race with New Fund on the Ethereum Network
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Craig Wright Is Playing Three-Dimensional Checkers
opinion Craig Wright’s attempt to copyright the bitcoin white paper is a bold, if silly, move by a person who may be both of those things. Copyright registration is a simple way of claiming ownership of a literary work, song, or piece of art. I could, for example, claim copyright over my exciting new musical “Bitcoin…

Crypto Use Is A ‘Fringe Activity’ Among Terrorists, Says Think Tank
A new report from a Washington, D.C. think tank presented last week argued that cryptocurrencies aren't well-suited for terrorist financing – while also highlighting the limited success terrorist groups have had attempting to raise funds with the technology. The paper was produced by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies' Center on Sanctions and Illicit Finance and…

‘We Did Not Approve or Endorse Bitcoin’: Gary Gensler’s Begrudging ETF Statement
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chair Gary Gensler conceded that the regulator's loss in court over rejecting Grayscale's application for a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) left it little recourse but to approve about a dozen such proposals Wednesday.Gensler called the approvals "the most sustainable path forward" in a statement issued just after the