Wyoming highway patrol union mulls adding Bitcoin to balance sheet: Report

Wallet provider Lohko has launched gold-backed NFTs offering carbon offsets. 2208 Total views 4 Total shares Digital asset wallet provider Lohko and London-based tech firm Mattereum have teamed up to launch nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, that are backed by gold and have carbon offsets attached.According to a May 26 announcement the tokens represent ownership over…

Bran Cohen, best known as author of the peer-to-peer (P2P) BitTorrent protocol, has responded to some of Vitalik Buterin’s opinions about the state of technology around cryptocurrencies.On Nov. 25, Cohen, also the current CEO of the Chia network, explained in a Twitter thread why he considers many of Vitalik’s opinions in his Nov. 22 blog…

North Korea (DPRK) has attempted to mine Bitcoin (BTC), Yonhap News reported August 27, citing a report compiled by a research unit from South Korea's state-run Korea Development Bank (KDB). Yonhap notes that the mining attempt – which was allegedly conducted “on a small scale” between May and July 2017 – appears to have been…

The Astar Network team claimed that having two virtual machines is a key success factor in a budding layer-1 blockchain. 427 Total views 2 Total shares Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFTMultichain decentralized application (DApp) protocol Astar Network will launch the second iteration of its smart contracts that supports both…

The FBI will notify victims of a $1.1 million fraud scheme through NFTs after the founder pleaded guilty to using the funds to fund his online gambling habit. 

The US dollar could lose its status as the world’s reserve currency to Bitcoin or other digital assets if the United States does not get its debt under control, according to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink. Fink wrote in his Annual Chairman’s Letter to Investors that “decentralized finance is an extraordinary innovation” that makes “markets faster

Bitcoin (BTC) consolidated at a key flip zone on Aug. 9 as BTC price strength staged a sudden return.BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingViewBTC price toys with $29,700 "party" levelData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD trading near $29,800 after a surge during the previous day’s Wall Street trading hours.That followed a recovery from…

Bitcoin programmability may also help further drive Bitcoin adoption as both a technical and financial layer in our society, which in turn may “drive up the price” over the long term. 578 Total views 8 Total shares While the Bitcoin network isn’t programmable, it serves as an excellent settlement layer to build robust applications on…