“It is a project officials hope could significantly increase their control over the national currency and its users while offering new opportunities to financial actors.” | learn more
I missed this news last year, but I think it’s quite interesting. You can use a .com (or other) domain name as an address in cryptoland. “For example, if you own “example.com” on DNS, you can import it into ENS […]
They’re huge global consumer brand with low AOV and high frequency. They’ve already gamified their loyalty/rewards program to great success. The blockchain-enabled plan to extend their program seems excellent. The only thing is, the fundamental benefits of blockchain don’t apply […]
Here’s Fred Wilson’s take. “The Merge is probably the most important change that a large scaled blockchain has ever undergone. It is not without risk and there is a chance that things will not go smoothly.” He’s excited! He also […]
“Van der Laan is the second successor to Satoshi Nakamoto and is one of the few people in the world with final commit access to Bitcoin Core’s GitHub.”
Fun stuff from bankruptcy court. The company is screwed, but they have a crypto mining operation, and they want to continue to invest in it despite being screwed. “That’s the thing about bankruptcy that’s oh so beautiful. A company can […]
“In other words, certainly individual users of Ethereum can fall into the death pit by either sending ETH to a sanctioned address or receiving ETH from one. That much seems clear. But what about US-based miners or validators who add […]
This blockchain service is used to launder cryptocurrency, and the US government recently banned it. Interacting with it can get your accounts frozen. So someone decided to have some fun: “Max chaos — someone is sending TC’d ETH to big […]
“Maker is making contingency plans to execute an emergency shutdown should core contracts underpinning DAI, its stablecoin, be sanctioned by Washington, according to posts from MakerDAO founder, Rune Christensen, in the project’s Discord channels. “If we get nuked by the […]
“Often cited as one of the best examples of a Web3 use case, [Helium] has received $365M of investment led by @a16z. Regular folks have also been convinced to spend $250M buying hotspot nodes, in hopes of earning passive income.” | learn more