Togetherness is the message of Ready Layer One, a conference being planned for early May by the Web3 Foundation, Near, Cosmos, Tezos, Protocol Labs and Polkadot, all entities involved in building new blockchains designed to serve as the primary...
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U.S. electric car manufacturer Tesla is working with the Shanghai Port Group to test if blockchain can make the process of importing goods into China any easier. In an announcement Tuesday, blockchain-based logistics provider CargoSmart revealed Tesla, the Shanghai...
If the privacy and scaling upgrade Schnorr/Taproot makes it into bitcoin (BTC), it could pave the way for advanced and heretofore impossible projects. That is, as they say, good for bitcoin. Schnorr/Taproot has made a great deal of progress...
Zoom, the popular-by-necessity video conferencing platform, has seen an explosion in users as the coronavirus pandemic forces people to work from home. In a recent blog post, CEO Eric S. Yuan said Zoom now has 200 million users, up...
Shyft Network is adding yet another blockchain to its decentralized digital identification network. The Barbados-based firm announced its intentions to build out a Polkadot parachain based on Parity Technologies’ Substrate network. The move is part of Shyft’s larger effort...
The company behind the world’s sixth-largest bitcoin mining pool has released software that aims to patch several security problems with such pools. The software, included in the BOSminer software suite, is the first working implementation of Stratum V2, the...
Witnesses on Steem have frozen eight accounts, putting a total of 17.6 million steem (worth approximately $3.2 million) in limbo. The accounts can be seen listed on GitHub. Steem recently underwent a contentious split into two blockchains, launching a...
MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen told CoinDesk late last year that the MakerDAO Foundation had two years left before its planned obsolescence. It sounds like it may take a bit longer but recent moves suggest the organization really is serious...
Screen time around the world is way, way up, which has led to a relative surge in a small corner of the cryptocurrency space, its more casual and entertaining one. The irony here is bitcoin (BTC) was born from...
While the cryptocurrency space has moved well beyond its cypherpunk origins, some platforms are still determined to let users keep their transactions to themselves. In the works since late 2019, BlueWallet, a non-custodial mobile crypto wallet for iOS and...