After the Securities and Exchange Commission’s crackdown on Kraken, Coinbase chief legal officer Paul Grewal outlined the differences between that exchange’s staking product and its own. The staking services offered by cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase are “fundamentally different” to what was offered by its peer exchange Kraken — which recently came under fire from the United…

A globally distributed AI network that relies on mining rigs will be difficult for governments to control, according to Dr. Ben Goertzel. As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly works its complex magic on one sector of the economy after another, there is an increasingly pressing need for compute resources to power all this machine intelligence. Training…

As the crypto industry recovers, a new generation of modular blockchains could replace centralized bridges and exchanges. The public blockchain sector grew from less than a few million dollars in the last decade to a $1 trillion industry. However, one thing that the space has yet to achieve is a decentralized, secure interoperable solution. Let’s…

Human Rights Foundation CSO argues that Bitcoin represents free speech, property rights and open capital markets — stifling the power of tyrannical governments. Bitcoin fixes broken democracies and fights government corruption by limiting its power to control its people, argues Bitcoin advocate and chief strategy officer of the Human Rights Foundation, Alex Gladstein. In a…

A supernet or umbrella network combines multiple smaller networks or blockchains into one larger network. Supernets enable communication among distinct blockchain networks, considerably improving the usefulness of the overall system by enabling the transfer of assets and data among different blockchains. Furthermore, shared infrastructure and resources can be made possible by interconnected networks, which can lower…

A group of pseudonymous developers from DarkFi spoke with Cointelegraph about how crypto is evolving amid privacy challenges, bad actors and government oversight. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon introduced one of the first critiques of centralized authority in 1848, a few years after publishing his now-classic book What is Property? and calling for the abolition of property and the state….