Hashing It Out: Traveling across the multichain world

BitMEX’s parent company is accepting applications for grant funding from developers contributing to open source technologies. Major Bitcoin (BTC) derivatives exchange BitMEX has started accepting grant applications from open source developers.The initiative follows $650,000 in developer grants that the exchange has issued to Bitcoin Core contributor Michael Ford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.BitMEX expands…

Banking executive says JPMorgan has been active in blockchain for a while. 2229 Total views 14 Total shares Contrary to public perception, JPMorgan Chase has always been pro-blockchain, says the multinational investment bank's head of wholesale payments, Takis Georgakopoulos. In a live discussion with Nasdaq reporter Jill Malandrino at this year’s Blockshow in Singapore, Georgakopoulos…

The latest discovery in the long-drawn Terra ecosystem saga contradicts many of Do Kwon’s early claims. 113 Total views 4 Total shares South Korean authorities have requested crypto exchange OKX and Kucoin to freeze 3,313 Bitcoin (BTC) reportedly tied to Do Kwon, the co-founder of Terra blockchain developer Terraform Labs.Kwon, who is currently on the…

Lawmakers are reportedly planning to cut taxes on Bitcoin gains in half, possibly as early as 2022. 2876 Total views 12 Total shares Cryptocurrency investors in Hungary could be getting a major tax break very soon, as lawmakers seek to make the central European country more competitive in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.In a…

Describing NFTs as the "most appropriate means of ownership that exists," a 65-year-old computer scientist will release a tokenized version of the world wide web code next week. 1396 Total views 3 Total shares British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who developed the original source code for the World Wide Web, is making the data…

Blockchain and the play-to-earn gaming movement could become even more addictive in 2022 as popular game developer Zynga fleshes out its team. 565 Total views 29 Total shares Hot off the news that the FarmVille and Words With Friends developer Zynga will release the first nonfungible token game this year, Zynga’s blockchain gaming aspirations are taking…

Over the course of 2020, numerous countries across the globe raced toward their own digital versions of their currencies, known as central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs. The crypto industry still has its selling points, however, even if most countries launched CBDCs, according to Jake Yocom-Piatt, co-founder of crypto project Decred.“I expect many nation states…