AIBC Dubai has announced that it will hold a breakfast event for investors during the upcoming March summit. The AIBC breakfast will offer 10 start-up companies a unique opportunity to pitch their projects to an elite team of investors. Akon at the AIBC Summit during Malta Week 2021. The private breakfast will take place on the second day…

A wave of sanctions hitting Russia highlights the complex web of connections that make up contemporary global society – and its ultimate fragility, writes David Z. Morris, CoinDesk’s Chief Insights Columnist. Vladimir Putin’s Russia is facing a wave of truly unprecedented financial sanctions in retaliation for its widely scorned invasion of Ukraine. The sanctions have…

Colorado plans to become the first US state to accept tax payments in cryptocurrency, a move the governor’s office has described as the “next logical step on the path to digital statehood”. Colorado’s governor, Jared Polis, who announced the effort last week, explained in a tweet that the state would accept crypto payments converted into…

The EU has published its new Data Act, a law proposal that aims to regulate the generation and handling of data by the actors that harness it. The act, in its large scope, touches on the subject of smart contracts and proposes that every smart contract should have a termination function to stop the flow…

Believing in something is human nature. But in the modern, multifaceted and information-saturated world we sometimes choose very odd objects of worship. So it should probably come as no surprise that for a growing number of people such an object is… Bitcoin. Let’s take a closer look at this phenomenon. Have you ever watched a…