How US crypto communities are celebrating the holidays IRL

Despite promises of decentralization, DAOs remain at the mercy of large tokenholders whose inactivity can be just as dangerous as their involvement.

The National Development Council (NDC) of Taiwan announced today that it will launch a blockchain alliance in three months, English-language local media Taiwan News reported on March 26.The NDC is the policy-related agency of Taiwan’s executive branch of government, known as the Executive Yuan.Per the report, Minister Chen Mei-ling told the Smart City Summit &…

The European Central Bank (ECB) doubled down on its dismissive stance on bitcoin (BTC) July 9, refusing to recognize it as currency in a Q&A session.Responding to a private query as part of its regular interactive Twitter program, which it administers under the hashtag ‘#AskECB,’ the bank said it had no plans to add bitcoin…

Pump-and-dump operations, which fraudulently manipulate prices by disseminating false information, have existed in economic contexts since at least the 1700s. For instance, con artists with shares in the South Sea Company started making false statements about the business and its revenues in the beginning of the eighteenth century. The plan was to inflate the stock price…

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French cryptocurrency hardware wallet company Ledger published a post on its official blog  on Feb. 14 apologizing for issues with a recent firmware update for its Ledger Nano S. Specifically, the update reportedly decreased the device’s storage capacity, which the firm has promised to remedy.“This was not planned obsolescence, simply put, we messed up. We…

Bloomberg ETF analyst James Seyffart thinks Grayscale’s Ether futures ETF application is just a ploy to corner the SEC to approve its spot Ether ETF. Grayscale Investments is using its Ether (ETH) futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) application as a “trojan horse” to corner the United States Securities and Exchange Commission into approving its spot Ether

The transfer occurred a day before FTX debtors are set to release a new restructuring plan for the exchange.

Trading platform eToro has recently announced a blockchain-based social project to create a “non-speculative” cryptocurrency with the aim of paying social interest to those who “have less,” according to a press release obtained by Cointelegraph Wednesday, Nov. 7.The trading platform currently has over 10 million registered users and supports fourteen cryptocurrencies on its platform.The social…