Cryptocurrencies

We look at how governments are dealing with regulating an industry that presents as many challenges to lawmakers as it does opportunities

Intel have announced a new FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) chip that can be used for cryptocurrency mining

Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak singled out Bitcoin as the only cryptocurrency that is pure mathematical gold.

Investment giant Bain Capital has launched Bain Capital Crypto (BCC), an investment fund targeting companies in cryptocurrency 

Finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, has said that consultations with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are continuing regarding the launch of an Indian digital currency, or CBDC, later this year. 

esponding to a question on Twitter, Mow said Mexico is on the list of companies he’s aiming to help with adopting Bitcoin. 

From Texas to the wild reaches of Inner Mongolia, there are dozens of territories around the globe where Bitcoin mining is especially prevalent. Yet, there remains little understanding about why these destinations are so popular for miners, and why they’re such important contributors to network resilience. 

In an interview with CNBC earlier this week, Jared Polis, Governor of Colorado, said the state aims to accept crypto for all state tax-related purposes by mid-2022

Despite relatively quiet markets, Bitcoin’s hashrate reaches an all-time high

In a Reddit post on the Ethereum subreddit Vitalik Buterin, Ethereum’s Founder, has outlined some security considerations for Ethereum and layer 2 protocols. Layer 2s are designed to reduce network congestion for Ethereum (which is a layer 1), allowing some transactions to be settled separately that runs on top of Ethereum’s

The Ethereum Foundation has scrapped the former naming conventions of its Ethereum upgrade from ETH 2.0 to Consensus Layer citing the need to avoid future confusion post-upgrade.

Let’s look at the previous attempts to create digital currencies that made Bitcoin possible.