Coinbase staking ‘fundamentally different’ to Kraken’s — chief lawyer
    22 Feb 2023
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    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…

    Cryptocurrency miners are leading the next stage of AI
    21 Feb 2023
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    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…

    Modular blockchains could be the next hot crypto market trend in 2023
    21 Feb 2023
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    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…

    Bitcoin ‘fixes democracy’ and fights corruption: Human Rights Foundation
    21 Feb 2023
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    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…

    ‘Privacy has become a taboo,’ says crypto-anarchist project DarkFi
    20 Feb 2023
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    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….

    Bitcoin market cap ‘flips’ payments giant Visa for the 3rd time
    20 Feb 2023
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    While the collapse of FTX shaved $100 billion off of BTC’s market cap in just four days last year, BTC has managed to fully recover and stack on another $65 billion. A 48% Bitcoin price surge since the start of the year has pushed BTC’s market cap past that of payment processing giant Visa once again….