West Virginia to Offer Blockchain Voting Statewide in Midterm Elections

F2Pool, the third-biggest Bitcoin mining pool, drew ire on social media after a report that it might be censoring transactions from an address subject to U.S. government sanctions.One of the F2Pool project's leaders subsequently appeared to confirm the report, stirring up controversy since "censorship resistance" is considered by many Bitcoiners to be a cardinal principle

news Silvergate Bank, one of the cryptocurrency industry’s few go-to financial service providers, is planning to become a crypto lender. According to an updated IPO filing, Silvergate, which serves some of the cryptocurrency world’s top firms like Coinbase, Bitstamp, Genesis Trading, Blocktower Capital, Polychain Capital and Xapo, has seen increased demand from the industry and is aiming…

Aug 14, 2020 at 10:57 UTCUpdated Aug 14, 2020 at 11:05 UTCCredit: CoinDesk archives, modified using PhotoMosh.com Marathon Patent Group has signed a purchase agreement with Chinese mining manufacturer Bitmain to drastically increase output with 10,500 new Antminer S-19 rigs at a total cost of $23 million. The Nasdaq-listed mining company announced Friday the new…

Sep 28, 2020 at 18:03 UTCUpdated Sep 28, 2020 at 18:07 UTCCredit: Andrii Spy_k/ShutterstockCrypto has many problems of its own making. Bad user experiences, unsustainable transaction fees, an inability to assess risks in the face of unyielding innovation. But until this year, I doubt anyone would have suggested that an interdependence on the U.S. dollar…

May 26, 2020 at 16:08 UTCCAPITULATION? U.S. lawmakers grilled Libra board member David Marcus last year. The consortium has overhauled its plans. (Credit: House Financial Services Committee)To See Libra’s Potential, Look at the Philippines, Not the USLeah Callon-Butler, a CoinDesk columnist, is the director of Emfarsis, a consulting firm focused on the role of technology…

Jan 12, 2021 at 10:21 a.m. UTCAvatar Social Platform IMVU Launches Ethereum Token to Power Its Virtual EconomyDigital avatar and social networking platform IMVU announced the launch of its VCOIN digital token Tuesday, after getting the green light from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) late last year.VCOIN is an Ethereum-based ERC-20 token that…

feature The Takeaway: Former Bitcoin Core developer Peter Todd filed a defamation suit in April demanding the deletion of a tweet that accused him of sexual misconduct. In response, three people submitted statements to the court this week accusing Todd of such misconduct. One alleged victim, “Jane Doe,” stated she stopped contributing to bitcoin projects…

news The G20 group of nations has reaffirmed it will align with standards for anti-money laundering (AML) and countering the funding of terrorism (CTF) set to be finalized by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) this month. Finance ministers and central bank governors from the G20, who met in Fukoka, Japan, over the weekend, made…

The bitcoin and ether ETF markets are expected to grow to $450 billion in total, the report said.Bernstein said this suggests flows of more than $100 billion in the next two years into crypto ETFs.The U.S. approval of an ether spot ETF has positive implications for rival tokens like solana, the broker said.Bitcoin (BTC) and