Why Academics Love Bitcoin – and Crypto

A Japanese city government has become one of the first in the country to have tested a blockchain-based system to let residents cast votes for selecting city development programs. The government of Tsukuba, a city known for its role in scientific development since the 1960s, completed the blockchain test on Aug. 28 with 119 votes…

Nov 25, 2020 at 5:00 p.m. UTCMotion blurred image of male hands playing shell game(LeventKonuk/iStock/Getty Images Plus)‘Bypass’ Attack in Coldcard Bitcoin Wallet Could Trick Users Into Sending Incorrect FundsThe bitcoin-only hardware wallet Coldcard has released a beta firmware patch for a vulnerability that also affected a competitor hardware wallet earlier this year.Ben Ma, a security…

Decentralization in crypto involves eliminating intermediaries to facilitate transactions. Atomic swaps utilize self-executing smart contracts to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) cryptocurrency transactions across blockchains.Read on to learn how atomic swaps work, how they differ from cross-chain bridges, and what their benefits and drawbacks are.This is partner content sourced from Laura Shin’s Unchained and published by CoinDesk.An atomic swap

The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the U.S. Federal Reserve concluded its two-day policy meeting Wednesday by resuming rate hikes after a one-meeting pause, raising its benchmark fed funds rate by 25 basis points to a targeted range of 5.25%-5.50%.The price of bitcoin (BTC) was little-changed at $29,300 in the immediate aftermath of the…

news CGEX, a Malta-based exchange opened by South Korea’s Coinone less than a year ago, is shutting down. The exchange posted an announcement last week saying that all services would be terminated on Sept. 18 at 2:50 UTC. After that date, customers will no longer be able to log in, and deposits and withdrawals will no longer…

Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for U.S. President, has chosen Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate for the 2024 presidential election, reports say. Walz has been the governor of Minnesota for five years, after previously serving in the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to that, he was a schoolteacher and a

We are moving into an era of hyper-financialization, in which anything that can become financialized will be. And it will culminate at the intersection of AI and crypto.Through a wider use of markets, we are likely to see more seamless coordination across all aspects of society. The reason we can't use markets in a broad

This article originally appeared in First Mover, CoinDesk’s daily newsletter putting the latest moves in crypto markets in context. Subscribe to get it in your inbox every day.Latest PricesTop StoriesMt. Gox has pushed back the date for its planned repayments by another 12 months, the trustees for the firm said on Thursday. The defunct crypto