Where Roads Can’t Reach, Blockchain Drones Just Might Travel

news Blockchain consortium Hyperledger has launched a new tool for developers – a modular, shared cryptographic library dubbed Ursa. The Linux Foundation-led group announced Tuesday that Hyperledger Ursa will act as a repository of “trusted” cryptographic implementations, aimed to make it easier for blockchain developers within its community and the wider open-source space to avoid duplication…

Mar 30, 2020 at 17:53 UTCUpdated Mar 30, 2020 at 18:14 UTCHow Central Banks Could Use Digital Cash to Deliver Universal Basic IncomeFrances Coppola, a CoinDesk columnist, is a freelance writer and speaker on banking, finance and economics.  Her book “The Case for People’s Quantitative Easing” explains how modern money creation and quantitative easing work,…

Aug 10, 2020 at 13:36 UTC(Latrach Med Jamil/Unsplash)The Fourth Era of Blockchain GovernanceStephanie Hurder, a CoinDesk columnist, is a founding economist at Prysm Group, an economic advisory focused on the implementation of emerging technologies, and an academic contributor to the World Economic Forum. She has a PhD in Business Economics from Harvard.  If you follow…

Oct 7, 2020 at 15:05 UTCUpdated Oct 7, 2020 at 15:18 UTCBitcoin has multiple long-term and short-term variables that affect its price, and many folks debate what its major correlations are, if any. It turns out, the same factors that affect bitcoin’s price – real rates of inflation, monetary and fiscal policy and market exuberance…

news Reports of cryptocurrency and foreign exchange scams in the U.K. grew threefold in the last financial year – spiking to 1,834 from 530 in the previous year, according to the country’s financial watchdog. Citing data from Action Fraud, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced Tuesday that, although the number of reported cases has increased, total…

news The G7 group of nations has warned that cryptocurrencies such as Facebook’s Libra are a threat to global financial stability. A task force set up by the G7 to examine the issues said that rules of the “highest” standards are needed to minimize the use of digital currencies in money laundering and funding terrorism, Reuters reports…

Bullish bets on dogecoin (DOGE) futures saw $60 million in long trades liquidated, more than for bitcoin (BTC) futures.The liquidations occurred as DOGE prices dropped over 10%, reflecting broader market sell-offs and a bearish sentiment in the crypto market.Bullish bets on dogecoin (DOGE) futures fared worse than their bitcoin (BTC) counterparts on Monday, unusually, as

Nov 12, 2020 at 4:38 p.m. UTCWhy DeFi Needs to Branch Out From EthereumThe booming world of decentralized finance (DeFi) has reached new heights in recent weeks as the total value of assets locked in the DeFi ecosystem surpasses $13 billion. Arguably the fastest-growing sector in the crypto industry today, DeFi has witnessed an explosive…

Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Jamie Crawley is a CoinDesk news reporter based in London.Join the most important conversation in crypto and Web3 taking place in Austin, Texas, April 26-28.Staking service provider P2P.org has raised $23 million in funding from a trio of crypto industry…