US Copyright Office reports ‘urgent need’ for protection from deepfakes

“I’m coining this term right here, right now,” Ray Youssef declares. “Financial Apartheid.”The CEO and co-founder of Paxful is on a mission. “It’s what has held Africa back more than anything else.”“How advanced would the United States be if you couldn’t send money from New York to Florida? From New York to California? From Oregon…

One of the largest producers of censorship-resistant blocks on Ethereum has made a complete u-turn, announcing it will start censoring OFAC-sanctioned blocks across all of its MEV relays in compliance with local laws.The firm, bloXroute Labs — which has produced at least 400,000 Ethereum blocks from its two leading Maximal Extraction Value (MEV) relays —

Coming every Saturday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link.Top Stories This WeekBreaking: Historic day for crypto as Ethereum Merge to proof-of-stake occursEthereum’s highly…

Line Next will use a part of the $140 million fund to introduce new Web3-focused services, which include a social app that uses AI-generated characters and Web3 games. Line Next, a venture dedicated to the growth of the nonfungible token (NFT) ecosystem, has raised $140 million as it prepares to launch a global NFT marketplace in

Shibarium’s beta phase saw a total of 21 million wallets on the L2, driving the interest of users months before the launch. 2105 Total views 34 Total shares Shiba Inu launched the Shibarium mainnet, an Ethereum layer-2 scaling solution, on Aug. 16 after months of testing that saw millions of users participate and 21 million…

Former U.S. federal prosecutor and current cryptocurrency VC executive Kathryn Haun recently took part in a debate on crypto with Nobel-prize winning economist Paul Krugman, posted on YouTube by crypto venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) Nov. 2.The debate, hosted by Mexican tech company KIO Networks and moderated by local business journalist Rodrigo Pacheco, was…

Bank for International Settlements researchers admired DeFi’s “competitive financial engineering” and made some highly technical aspects of DeFi somewhat more accessible. 365 Total views 1 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTThe Bank for International Settlements looked under the hood of decentralized finance (DeFi) in a new working paper…

Majority of the DeFi tokens in Top-100 traded in red barring a few, thanks to the weekend rout in the market correction towards the end of the week. 223 Total views 12 Total shares

Widely credited as the inventor of digital cash, David Chaum is sometimes known as the “father of online anonymity” or the “godfather of cryptocurrency,” whose work inspired the near-mythical group called the Cypherpunks from which Bitcoin emerged. Beginning his studies in computer science in the late 1970s, when encryption was classified at the same level as…