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Sam Altman's Worldcoin project is chopping its name in half and debuting a faster, simpler "Orb" to scan the irises of billions of people. Now known simply as "World," the project's long-term goal remains the creation of an identity-verification system that lets people "prove their humanity" anonymously online. To get there it has already debuted

Nov 10, 2020 at 7:21 p.m. UTCUpdated Nov 10, 2020 at 7:22 p.m. UTCShapeShift Delists Privacy Coin Zcash Over Regulatory ConcernsShapeShift, the Colorado-based cryptocurrency exchange that allows users to self-custody their assets, has delisted another privacy coin.Zcash has been removed from the trading platform in addition to monero and dash. Decrypt reported last Friday that…

Jul 24, 2020 at 17:05 UTCETHDenver 2019 (Christine Kim/CoinDesk archives)Everything You Need to Know About Ethereum 2.0Ethereum 2.0 is coming.  The yearslong upgrade – intended to radically transform the world’s largest smart-contract platform – is inching closer to deployment. The Ethereum Foundation recently announced “Medalla,” a final testnet before the mainnet launch of the Eth 2.0…

Crypto enthusiasts anxiously await everyone “getting it" and the masses entering and investing in crypto. But what will be the trigger? Will Ferrari's announcement that you can pay for your car in bitcoin in the US tip the scales - unlikely (just my opinion)?Andy Baehr, managing director of CoinDesk Indices, tackles this topic and discusses

news Coinbase executive Tim Wagner is leaving the crypto exchange after slightly over a year on the job. Other high-ranking engineering staffers are leaving too, CoinDesk has learned. Wagner, Coinbase’s vice president of engineering, will be departing in the next two weeks, a Coinbase spokesperson confirmed. The departure will leave a vacancy on the company’s…

Crypto mining giant Bitmain may be losing its advantage in developing miners amid other potential cash-flow issues, according to Alliance Bernstein.

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.South Korea's Upbit surpassed centralized exchanges Coinbase (COIN) and OKX in spot trading volume for the first time in July, according to a report from CCData, making it…

Anna Baydakova is an investigative reporter with a special focus on Eastern Europe and Russia. Anna owns BTC and an NFT.Getting your paycheck in crypto? The younger the employees are, the more likely they are to favor this idea, research shows. Rise, a Ohio-based startup, targets companies that want to give their workers flexibility between…

Bitcoin (BTC) stood above the $28,400 level in European morning hours on Tuesday amid generally positive sentiment about the asset’s near-term future and a fundamental crypto law signed in the U.S., which likely helped buoy prices.California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a crypto licensing bill on Friday, set to take effect in July 2025, in a