Microsoft Looks to Trusted Computing for Boosting Blockchain Security

From “backed by nothing” to “China mining control,” a complete look at the best response to every category of bitcoin FUD out there.This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.On today’s episode of The Breakdown, NLW is joined by Dan Held, growth lead at Kraken and a serial bitcoin entrepreneur. As the market heats up, so, too,…

A newly launched cryptocurrency on Solana (SOL) called Restore the Republic, or RTR, which was rumored to be the official token of Donald Trump, ballooned to $155 million market value before cratering 95% on Thursday after the former president's son warned that his father doesn't yet have an official token. Hopes for Donald Trump's crypto

Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told a Congressional committee Wednesday that the social media company is exploring blockchain solutions for its platform. Dorsey was responding to a question from California Representative Doris Matsui during a House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing that focused on alleged bias against political conservatives on Twitter. "You previously expressed interest…

Efforts to scale ethereum, the world's second-largest blockchain, are growing more varied as one much-anticipated solution encounters pitfalls amid its continued development. At the forefront of this transition has been plasma, a concept widely heralded as ethereum's best bet for short-term scaling. Already, researchers behind the tech have built five distinct versions of the protocol –…

Thursday, Aug. 1 Switchboard Releases 'Oracle Aggregator,' to Help Prevent Price-Manipulation Attacks Switchboard, a permissionless and customizable oracle network, has unveiled its new Oracle Aggregator allowing users to seamlessly "aggregate data across multiple oracle networks, including Chainlink and Pyth Network, hardening dApps against price manipulation attacks," according to the team: "In aggregating data off-chain, Switchboard’s

Jan 6, 2021 at 11:35 p.m. UTCUpdated Jan 6, 2021 at 11:39 p.m. UTCCryptocurrency total market value Total Cryptocurrency Market Value Hits Record $1 TrillionThe total value of all cryptocurrencies passed $1 trillion Wednesday for the first time ever, per CoinGecko‘s index of 6,124 assets. At its prior peak in late 2017, the market’s total…

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde.(CoinDesk archives)The European Central Bank (ECB) has applied for a trademark on the phrase “digital euro,” according to a Bloomberg report.Bloomberg confirmed that ECB lawyers at the German firm Bock Legal applied for the European Union Intellectual Property Office's "digital euro" trademark on Sept. 22. It has not yet been…

feature This holiday shopping season, hundreds of women are earning their first bitcoin by buying items online with an in-browser app called Lolli. Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk, cosmetics chain Sephora has joined the list of retailers where shoppers can earn cash back, in the form of bitcoin, through an app called Lolli. The bitcoin rewards…

Bitcoin (BTC) tumbled about 6% from its new all-time high on Tuesday as heavy selling on crypto exchanges capped the price surge beyond $69,000.The order book on crypto exchange Binance showed large sell orders clustered at higher price levels, with over 300 BTC, worth about $20 million, to be sold at $69,000 and more than