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Other countries are keen to see whether the historic decision to make Bitcoin legal tender pays off. El Salvadorans are less convinced.

Blockchain is not only crappy technology but a bad vision for the future. Its failure to achieve adoption to date is because systems built…

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Bitcoin has become a lifeline for Gaza as the US and Israel treat the territory as a pariah state in an effort to undermine Hamas. Gazans are hoping that cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin can fill the void of a national currency.

Police alleged RenrenBit founder Zhao Dong helped an organized money laundering syndicate wash nearly half a billion dollars.

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The M-Pesa mobile money transfer system, hugely popular in East Africa, is being scrapped in South Africa, which for many pundits comes as a surprise, writes the BBC's Lerato Mbele.

Outlier Ventures plans to introduce a new legal framework for raising money with NFTs; lawyers say there's reason to be skeptical.

Bitcoin is passé. But if the buzz is to be believed, the “block chain” technology behind bitcoin is going to revolutionize your toaster, the banking...

A book excerpt! Cryptocurrency promoters never detail how they’re actually going to “bank the unbanked.” What would they need to do?

Many downsides of cryptocurrencies are well known: There’s volatility, potential for thefts or hacks, and the chance of regulatory changes. Turns out, it may not help your social life, either.

Bitcoin consolidated mining is a big hazard that is undermining the credibility of the blockchain. The current rewarding system has to be somehow fixed before inflation exacerbates the problem even more.

Blockchain technologies may have significant implications for money, property and cooperative organisation for the Commons. An essay by Rachel O'Dywer.

When we invented non-fungible tokens, we were trying to protect artists. But tech-world opportunism has struck again.

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When cultural norms are in limbo, it pays to invest in the propagation and preservation of iconic internet moments

Bitcoin is cursed. Not just technologically, but culturally, because libertarians hate climate action.

Banksying the unbanksied.

A response to the environmental cost of crypto art by artists, activists and theorists. "The Uncanny Valley" is Flash Art's new digital column offering a window on the developing field

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1aXMgMaEj0In the last months we have witnessed an upswing in the non-fungible token (NFT) art scene. More artists, collectors and curators are pushing into this promising market, which features unique and timestamped artistic creations based o

In this two-part series, we will be looking at some of the new directions that artists are taking the concept, and exploring some of the technologies promising to transform the NFT landscape.

Bitcoin’s recent 25% plunge illustrates why it will never be a true currency

PGMiner is a novel Linux-based cryptocurrency mining botnet that exploits a disputed PostgreSQL remote code execution vulnerability.

Diem plans to launch a dollar-based digital asset when Swiss regulators allow.

Low denomination coins especially – which depend on the mining of zinc ore and all its damaging by-products – have a serious enough impact on the environment that a number of countries have started pulling them entirely

The war against the spread of the Coronavirus has forced a number of governments to use extreme measures in tracking the spread of the pandemic within their borders. uch extreme measures by governments will most definitely reignite the privacy debate that spurred the creation of privacy coins such as ZCash (ZEC) and Monero (XMR).

Matthew Leising meets the author of the hack in Zurich and appeases the curious

The mysterious creator of bitcoin asks a journalist to help reveal his identity.