Cryptocurrency

Michael Sung, a professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, spoke to CoinDesk’s Michael Casey at the World Economic Forum 2020. The topic? The intertwined growth of digital currency and blockchain projects in China.

May 11, 2020

Throughout the seven volatile years during which Circle founder Jeremy Allaire has been developing crypto products he has consistently warned that there was much work to do before the technology is ready for mass usage.

May 11, 2020

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell answered questions posed by Rep. Bill Foster (D-Illinois) regarding the competitive threat to the U.S. dollar’s status as a global reserve currency by China’s ambitions to create a digital yuan and the proposal of Libra. Source: Financial Services Committee hearing, Feb. 11, 2020.

May 11, 2020

Economist Judy Shelton answered questions at a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee considering her nomination for the Federal Reserve Board by President Donald Trump. Here’s how Shelton answered Senator Tom Cotton’s (R-Arkansas) inquiry on whether the U.S. should move to digitize the dollar to preserve the greenback’s global primacy.

May 11, 2020

Cindy Zimmerman is KeyFi’s Co-founder and Lead Security Engineer. Find out how she and her mother Judy Katzman have forged successful careers as software developers in cryptocurrency and the blockchain industry.

May 11, 2020

In this interview with Protocol Specialist at Bison Trails, Viktor Bunin, we discuss his company's current growth and why they're still backing Libra.

May 11, 2020

Governor Polis joined CoinDesk's Will Foxley at ETHDenver where he talked about breaking down the mess of regulations holding back fintech in his state.

May 11, 2020

There’s now a case study for how DeFi can go awry. bZx, the eighth-largest decentralized finance project according to DeFi Pulse, suffered two attacks last weekend following the introduction of “flash loans,” a new DeFi feature that limits a trader’s risk while improving the upside.

May 11, 2020

Sergey Nazarov sits down with Will Foxley to talk about Polkadot at ETHDenver

May 11, 2020

At the South Carolina Democratic Party Candidates Dinner, just over a week before super Tuesday, the remaining Democratic presidential candidates tried to sell the room of over 300 people on why they were the best choice for their vote. Biden would eventually go onto win the primary, trouncing second-place finisher Bernie Sanders. The endorsement of House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn, who was seated front and center of the dinner, went a long way towards securing Biden's victory. While the candidates spoke about electability and climate change, voters at the cocktail hour prior expressed reservations about tech taking a backseat in these conversations, the security risks of a coin like Libra, and concern that Congress is consistently lagging behind when it comes to even understanding technological developments."

May 11, 2020