Some are concerned at how big decisions about what’s acceptable speech are falling into the hands of tech giants. Blockchain-based domain name provider Unstoppable Domains is taking another approach: allowing the owners of .crypto sites to launch their very own decentralized blogs.
At $5 million, the bounty on the head of Venezuela's Petro project may be worth more than the cryptocurrency (Photo: ICE)U.S. puts $5M bounty on head of Venezuela’s Petro Superintendent
Superintendent of Venezuela Government Cryptocurrency Joselit Ramirez Camacho was indicted for money laundering, violating U.S. sanctions, and working with designated drug kingpins
Joselit Ramirez Camacho, is “accused of having deep political, social and economic ties to multiple alleged narcotics kingpins, including the country’s former vice president, Tareck El Aissami,” according to a statement released on June 1 by the ICE Homeland Security Investigations division.
Will a new name help Facebook's Calibra wallet end confusion with Libra? Or distance Facebook from Libra? (Photo: Novi)Facebook ditches Calibra name and renames crypto wallet ‘Novi’
Facebook’s Libra frontman and Calibra CEO David Marcus says the change is designed to alleviate ‘confusion.’ Conveniently, it will also help distance Libra from Facebook, whose poor reputation is an anchor around the neck of the stablecoin
First, the Libra Association underwent a radical overhaul in an attempt to make Facebook’s controversial stablecoin project more palatable to investors. Now, the embattled social network’s cryptocurrency wallet, Calibra, is getting a new name, too.
The World Economic Forum wants to bring order to the chaotic world of blockchain development (Photo: WEF)World Economic Forum unveils ‘Blockchain Bill of Rights’—will it work?
Achieving consensus in a fragmented landscape isn’t easy. Despite the proposal getting several significant signatories, plenty of hurdles remain
The blockchain industry is a fragmented one—with countless projects forging their own way as they try to find compelling use cases for this technology. But now, the World Economic Forum’s Global Blockchain Council is attempting to ratify some universal standards in a so-called “Blockchain Bill of Rights.”