With its latest blockchain strategy, the government of Spain’s Catalonia region is not only putting itself ahead of the curve in terms of offering citizens control of their personal information, it is ratcheting up its campaign to break away from Spain.
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Coinbase: Cornell University is the best when it comes to cryptocurrency and blockchain education
The 2nd Annual Coinbase Report on Higher Education finds more than half of the world’s top 50 universities now offer these courses; enrollment in such classes has doubled
Cornell University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and New York University are the tops when it comes to offering courses in cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, according to a new report from Coinbase.
- Nobel laureate and Columbia University professor of economics, Joseph E. Stiglitz (photo via Columbia University).
‘Suckers are born every minute’: Economist Joseph Stiglitz takes on Facebook’s David Marcus over Libra
The head of Facebook’s new cryptocurrency project fires back at the Nobel laureate’s declaration that only a fool would trust it
Earlier this week, a Nobel Prize-winning economist squared off with a Facebook executive over whether the social media giant could be trusted to create a cryptocurrency.
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Exploring the future of blockchain tech through its history
CoinDesk’s head of research discusses crypto-economics, cryptography, and some blockchain use cases
While Bitcoin is only ten years old, the origins of the technologies behind it go back much further, and its future implications are still not clear.