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Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative. The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly, a custom-curated newsletter delivered every Sunday exclusively to our subscribers. There’s a moment during almost every presentation I give on …

Another month is leaving the crypto industry with some of the best and significant developments. September 2018 was an essential month from many perspectives. This time, the industry didn’t just see adoption in technological space, but also in charity. Education and research remained at the forefront of crypto development, as an …

Leading browser provider Opera has announced a new partnership with leading strategic blockchain advisory and financial services firm Ledger Capital in an effort to grow the company’s blockchain technology initiative. A new press release reveals that the two companies will be exploring further use-cases of blockchain technology and determining how …

Memes are a pretty important part of the crypto ecosystem – how else would crypto visionaries display their wit and sometimes passive aggressivity? It’s no wonder then that District0x’s Meme Factory is seeing quite the buzz. Not only did District0x raise $9 million in an initial coin offering last year, backed …

Key Points Bitcoin cash price gained traction and moved above the $500 barrier against the US Dollar. There is a key contracting triangle in place with support near $510 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Kraken). The pair is likely to break higher towards the …

Indonesian cryptocurrency and payments company Pundix has introduced a point of sale terminal at a shop in Nigeria, allowing people in the West African country to make purchases using cryptocurrency, including bitcoin. The move is seen as key to scaling up cryptocurrency adoption and development in Africa’s biggest bitcoin market. …

Ripple is leading a number of organizations launching a lobbying group in Washington D.C., Business Standard reported Friday. Dubbed Securing America’s Internet of Value Coalition (SAIV), the group includes, apart from Ripple, the RippleWorks Foundation; Coil, a company developing a solution for digital payments; Hard Yaka, an investment firm focusing on …

As made quite apparent by the recent regulatory crackdown on 1Broker, a lesser-known crypto trading platform, centralized exchanges are becoming increasingly susceptible to external risks, like regulation and manipulation. Hence why many believe that secure, efficient, no frills attached decentralized exchanges (DEXs) can’t come fast enough. With a string of …

In what could be construed as calling the casual enthusiast’s bluff, BTC maximalists at the Samourai project announced, “All fiat currency conversions have been removed from Samourai Wallet. We understand this may inconvenience some, it may even be enough to cause us to lose some users, but we believe it …

Privacy-focused bitcoin wallet Samourai is dropping fiat balances from its platform, the company announced Friday. The Samourai Wallet’s latest release includes a number of changes, including the fact that it is now available in 12 different languages, according to a blog post. However, the most significant change will see the …