She may not be “fan” of bitcoin,” but former Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen now has a small amount of BTC in her possession. On Monday, Yellen explained why she believes bitcoin is not a useful form of currency during an…
Dan Held is the founder of crypto portfolio service Picks & Shovels. He previously founded data service ZeroBlock, which sold to Blockchain, and served as VP of product at ChangeTip. This exclusive opinion piece is part of CoinDesk’s “Bitcoin at…
The Indian government is considering imposing a ban on what it calls “private cryptocurrencies” in the country. At the 19th meeting of the Financial Stability and Development Council (FSDC) on Tuesday, the country’s finance minister Arun Jaitley discussed “the issues…
Former U.S. Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen is “not a fan” of bitcoin. Speaking at the Canada Fintech Forum on Monday, Yellen, who served as chairman of the Board of Governors of the Fed between 2014 and 2018, outlined a…
The developer that formalized the code underlying most initial coin offerings (ICOs) – ethereum’s ERC-20 token standard – has proposed a new approach in a bid to make the funding schemes more safe for would-be investors. Speaking in Prague on Tuesday…
In what is the latest sign of a depressed cryptocurrency market, some of the world’s largest and most widely traded assets are now priced below where they were 12 months ago. At press time, bitcoin’s sell-off yesterday appears to have exposed the…
The privacy-focused cryptocurrency zcash has officially implemented its network hard fork, known as Sapling. Activated on schedule at block 419,200, Sapling has long been planned as an upgrade aimed at making the network faster, lighter and more secure. On Sunday, the…
Blockchain payments startup Ripple Labs has hired former Google executive Amir Sarhangi as its vice president of products. According to his LinkedIn profile, Sarhangi joined Ripple this month after departing his role leading Google’s director of messaging product management and partnerships…
Cryptography startup StarkWare just closed a $30 million equity funding round led by Paradigm and featuring a number of other major investors, according to an announcement Monday. StarkWare, the company that developed the zk-STARKS privacy feature, is now working to…
David Schwartz is CTO at Ripple. This exclusive opinion piece is part of CoinDesk’s “Bitcoin at 10: The Satoshi White Paper” series. In 1991, my patent for a multi-level distributed computer network was granted. I was working on graphics rendering…