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Policy

ECB Officials' Full Statement on Bitcoin's Failed Promise and ETFs

In their full blog post, European Central Bank Director General Ulrich Bindseil and Advisor Jürgen Schaaf express their view that Bitcoin has not fulfilled its potential as a global, decentralized digital currency.

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Policy

Turkey’s Upcoming Crypto Rules Will Protect Users While Fostering Innovation, Lawmaker Says

Ömer İleri, who oversees Information and Communication Technologies for Turkey’s ruling party, met with representatives of the crypto sector to discuss upcoming regulations.

Ömer İleri, Deputy Chairman in charge of Information and Communication Technologies for Turkey's ruling AK Party. (CoinDesk Turkey)

Videos

How Decentralized Social Network Farcaster Hopes to Eventually Get to One Billion Users

Dan Romero, the co-founder of decentralized social media network Farcaster, joins "Unchained" to discuss why Frames has become so popular, the central ideas behind Farcaster, and what’s in store for Farcaster’s future.

Unchained

Videos

Justin Sun Has Bitcoin Ambitions

Catch up on this week’s Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining news! Charlie, Matt and Will go through this week’s most important Bitcoin headlines, including the 8% difficulty adjustment, Coinmint’s $14 million payout to ASIC manufacturer Katena and Justin Sun’s Bitcoin ambitions.

The Mining Pod

Videos

Why One Solana Builder Is Still Optimistic About the Network

Lucas Bruder, the CEO of Jito Labs, which builds infrastructure for the Solana blockchain, joins "Unchained" to discuss the cause of Solana's recent outage, improvements the blockchain has made to its technology and the promise of the Solana phone. 

Unchained

Videos

BitDigital’s AI Play With Sam Tabar

Will is joined by Sam Tabar, CEO of BitDigital, to discuss the Bitcoin miner’s focus on AI, its asset-light mining strategy and how Sam is thinking about mining post-halving.

The Mining Pod

Videos

Are the Feds Coming After Bitcoin Miners?

"The Mining Pod" host Will Foxley breaks down recent bitcoin mining news, including movements in BTC price, Hut 8’s leadership change, the EIA seeking energy data and French Montana shilling his latest Bitcoin NFT.

The Mining Pod

Videos

Jupiter Founder Meow Addresses Critics of JUP Airdrop: ‘Give Me a Break’

Jupiter’s founder, who goes by the pseudonym Meow, joins Unchained to break down the launch mechanics of JUP and why he finds the criticisms of the launch mostly based on “bad faith” and misinformation.  

Unchained