Walmart, the largest U.S. retailer by total sales, is looking to hire a “digital currency and cryptocurrency product lead” to “own and drive the digital currency strategy,” following Amazon looking for ways to let customers pay for goods with cryptocurrencies, which could be a promising development for the crypto community. According to Walmart’s careers page,…

Microsoft’s research department, with the participation of researchers from Alibaba and Carnegie Mellon University, released a new paper, in which was studied a blockchain-based incentive system for anti-piracy campaigns. The Redmond-based software giant plans to combat piracy rely on the transparency of Ethereum blockchain technology. In a new paper released by Microsoft, the major software…

A cryptocurrency amendment was introduced to the US Senate, which would greatly complicate any operations with cryptocurrencies, hitting decentralized services the hardest. And it is backed by the Joe Biden administration. There is a lot of fuss around the second cryptocurrency amendment to Joe Biden’s $ 1 trillion infrastructure bill HR 3684. On August 6,…