The IRS Should Offer a Free Tax Reporting Tool to DeFi Users

An IMF survey of the Middle East and Central Asian region has concluded that while CBDC's may not be essential they can advance financial inclusion and lower the cost of financial services.The uptake of CBDC's may only have marginal benefits in the Middle East and Central Asia if other barriers are not addressed, the IMF

feature The technology behind the cryptocurrency NEO, formerly known as Antshares, will be completely reconfigured by this time next year. In April, NEO co-founder Erik Zhang announced that an optimized version of the blockchain network will relaunch as NEO 3.0 in 2020. The underlying infrastructure will be so different that token holders will need to turn…

news Coinone, a South Korean crypto exchange, has issued listing criteria, laying out in some detail what is required to be traded on the platform. The disclosure on August 8th came just a few days after the exchange announced the signing a deal with CertiK to undertake a security validation and amid a rush in…

news The Takeaway: With $63.2 million in fresh funding from 14 banks, Fnality is building tokenized versions of five major fiat currencies. The digitized fiat would be fully collateralized by cash held at central banks and is meant to solve the “cash on ledger” problem faced by other financial blockchain projects. The consortium says it is…

Apr 14, 2020 at 08:09 UTCUpdated Apr 14, 2020 at 08:14 UTCCredit: Shutterstock/natmac stockOne of the world's largest video platforms, iQiyi, hopes to improve its user experience after joining forces with a public blockchain that enables bandwidth sharing.The freshly inked deal will see the Beijing-based video platform use the peer-to-peer infrastructure from New Kind of…

news “Dash is the most used cryptocurrency in Venezuela,” said Ryan Taylor, CEO of Dashpay, as he stood on stage last May during CoinDesk’s Consensus event. This statement has been repeated time and again by Dashpay, hinting that crypto is taking off in Venezuela’s economy.  But after investigating the true uptake of the crypto in…

The notorious phrase from 1996’s “Jerry Maguire” movie is on the lips of investors watching the state of the Bitcoin mining market as it faces its next crunch point: April's Bitcoin Halving.Mining, an integral part of securing the bitcoin network, requires a lot of capital to operate profitably. And now, after a brutal crypto winter

“Running bitcoin,” were the words of legendary cypherpunk Hal Finney on Jan. 11, 2009, shortly before becoming the first person to download and receive bitcoin (BTC) two days later.This tweet introduced the world to bitcoin, the then-niche internet token which would balloon into a trillion-dollar asset at its peak.Finney, who died in August 2014, was

Crypto unintelligentsia discourse has been set aflame by this week’s Big Crisis in Bitcoin.The culprit: big, fat, unwieldy fee rates.George Kaloudis is a senior researcher and host of CoinDesk TV's "All About Bitcoin." Until recently you could have sent a bitcoin transaction rather cheaply, probably at a fee rate of 1 satoshi per vByte (equivalent…