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Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the Ethereum blockchain, says the digital-asset universe may actually benefit from the current retreat in coin prices that’s cast a chill on investors and is being referred to as another crypto winter.

MOB surged from $7 to $68 in the last week before taking a dump and dropping to $39 overnight.

Despite considering myself a cryptographer, I have not found myself particularly drawn to “crypto.” I don’t think I’ve ever actually said the words “get off my lawn,” but I’m much more likely to click on Pepperidge Farm Remembers flavored memes about how “crypto” used to mean “cryptography” than ...

Announcing a new art project challenging the financial ideologies of digital ledgers

Far from a modern idea, Blockchain, in fact, has a long history tracing all the way back to the tribal villages of the tiny island of Yap in 500AD.

For one of her startups. Afghan entrepreneur Roya Mahboob had trouble paying her (mostly female) users, 99% of whom did not have bank accounts. Her solution? Bitcoin.

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

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.

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

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

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

Bitcoin has swung wildly this week, as many had expected it to, with it losing $1,000 per bitcoin a few days ago before suddenly shooting back up earlier today...

A seemingly innocuous certificate from CESI to aelf might be a tacit sign that China is looking at creating a regulated crypto industry.