Japan slow to approve crypto ETFs, maintains strict tax, regulations

Donald Trump’s stance on crypto has shifted from anti-Bitcoin to now being a pro-crypto presidential candidate.

Decentralized file- and web-hosting protocol InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) announced its largest upgrade so far.According to an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, the developers will release IPFS version 0.5. on April 28. IPFS 0.5 reportedly makes uploading new data 25 times faster, fetching content two to five times faster, while finding nodes that have it will be…

This is the latest issue of Finance Redefined, Cointelegraph's DeFi-centric newsletter delivered to subscribers every Wednesday.A relatively quiet week in DeFi finally has given me some breathing room to talk about a subject I’ve been postponing since almost the beginning of this newsletter, namely: What’s up with DeFi’s weird obsession with algorithmic stablecoins?There are so…

Facebook’s Calibra team have published a research paper outlining a new method for Byzantine fault tolerance, or BFT, testing.Dubbed “Twins”, Claibra’s innovation comprises a lightweight method for testing a network’s BFT implementation.Calibra pioneers BFT testing strategyThe paper asserts that while BFT systems “have seen extensive study for more than two decades,” the field “lack[s] a…

The charity campaign aims to raise funds for humanitarian aid to help Israelis affected by the recent conflict. 78 Total views 1 Total shares A collective of local leaders in the cryptocurrency space, including Cointelegraph, 42Studio, MarketAcross, Collider Ventures, CryptoJungle, Nilos, Blockchain B7, Efficient Frontier, Ironblocks, the Israel Blockchain Association and Bits of Gold, have

Co-founder and CEO of major U.S.-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Brian Armstrong attracted criticism after praising private crypto transactions in a tweet published on June 22.In the aforementioned tweet, Armstrong notes that “a scalable, sufficiently decentralized, chain that supported private transactions by default (privacy coins) would be a game changer.” He then compares anonymous cryptocurrency transactions…

The Italian government has published its list of 30 blockchain high-level experts to further its integration of the technology at state level, Cointelegraph Italy reported Dec. 27.The result of a four-month hiring and consultation process, the group will work for free advising authorities how to create a “national strategy on distributed register and blockchain technologies.”The…

Two years after John McAfee’s death, and his wife, Janice, is still unable to get closure. “All I want is to see his body for myself and know that really happened.” by Monty Munford 9 min November 8, 2023 Share Share Share Share Janice McAfee, the widow of tech impresario John McAfee, is still in