What Intel’s Foreshadow Flaw Means for the Future of Cryptocurrency

Users of Arbitrum, which has seen immense growth in the past few months, were expecting the network to issue its native tokens for a long time. Arbitrum developers have previously denied they planned to issue tokens, but that didn’t dissuade traders from making bets on the possibility of the tokens in the future.

The bitcoin mining industry is having an exciting couple of days. Just a day after Bitfury revealed a new 14nm mining chip called the Bitfury Clarke, Bitmain has upped the ante with the announcement of a new 7nm application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) processor that it says offers better hashing power and energy efficiency over older models. The…

Bitcoin has suddenly found itself at the center of campaign trash-talking and chest-thumping ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.Biotech-entrepreneur-turned-Republican-candidate Vivek Ramaswamy told CoinDesk in an interview that he is the only candidate who understands Bitcoin deeply enough to discuss it intelligently on the presidential debate stage.His remarks came after fellow hopeful and Florida Governor…

Jan 17, 2020 at 17:15 UTCToday's news:Bitcoin gaining today after two straight days of declines, up 1.3 percent to around $8800The Block reports that Grayscale Investments, a unit of Digital Currency Group, which is the owner of CoinDesk, raised more than $600 million from investors last year. And that’s up from 66% in 2018.The Libra Association, working…

Nov 17, 2020 at 11:00 a.m. UTCPolkadot founder Gavin Wood (Christine Kim/CoinDesk)As DeFi Grows, Investors Look to Polkadot to Be the Next EthereumLook no further than the rapid growth this year in the white-hot arena of decentralized finance, or DeFi, and it’s clear why the Ethereum blockchain is dominating so many conversations right now in…

One of investing’s loudest critics of China shares his assessment of where the U.S. political and business relationship with the country is headed. This episode is sponsored by Nexo.io.In this episode, NLW speaks with Kyle Bass. Kyle is the founder and chief investment officer of Hayman Capital Management, a hedge fund focused on global events.…

Nov 27, 2019 at 17:00 UTCUpdated Nov 27, 2019 at 16:57 UTCMARKETS DAILY: UpBit Hack Reactions & Crypto Liquidity InsightsWelcome to the CoinDesk Markets Daily Podcast, a 10-minute look at what's driving the crypto markets today. The podcast appears daily and we'd love you to subscribe in your favorite podcast app or grab the MP3…

Cryptocurrencies of non-fungible token (NFT) marketplaces dipped during Wednesday U.S. morning hours following news of OpenSea facing potential U.S. regulatory action. Adding to earlier losses alongside a broad crypto decline begun Tuesday evening U.S. hours, Blur (BLUR) fell another 5% in the minutes following the news before a modest bounce. It's now down 10% over

Security expert Ari Juels has been thinking about how technology can derail society for about as long as he can remember. That doesn’t mean Juels, the chief scientist at Chainlink and professor at Cornell Tech, in New York CIty, thinks the world is going off the rails anytime soon. But over the past decade —