Colin Harper, Blockspace Media

Colin writes about Bitcoin. Formerly, he worked at CoinDesk as a tech reporter and Luxor Technology Corp. as head of research. Now, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Blockspace Media, and he also freelances for CoinDesk, Forbes and Bitcoin Magazine. He holds bitcoin.

Colin Harper, Blockspace Media

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Tech

This Self-Sovereign ‘DocuSign’ Uses Bitcoin for Digital Proofs

Woleet provides a digital ID software suite which allows its clients to authenticate documents and signatures using Bitcoin’s blockchain.

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Tech

DeFi Degens Hit Hard by Eminence Exploit Will Be Partially Compensated

DeFi traders piled into a token that was still in testing. After an exploit sent Eminence to zero, affected users are receiving restitution.

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Tech

MakerDAO Adds Chainlink, Compound, Loopring as Collateral Options

MakerDAO has voted to add support for a trio of new tokens for the decentralized finance (DeFi) loans that generate DAI stablecoins.

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Tech

BitcoinACKs Lets You Track Bitcoin Development and Pay Coders for Their Work

BitcoinACKs aggregates pull requests for upgrades to Bitcoin Core and lets users pay for the Bitcoin development they want to see.

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Tech

This Entrepreneur Was SIM-Swapped so Often, He Started a Company to Fight It

Efani’s solution to SIM-swapping? Make it so difficult to make changes to a cell phone account that an attack is virtually impossible.

Haseeb Awan, founder of Efani

Tech

Blockchain Commons Internship Introduces New Developers to Open Source

The Blockchain Commons took on seven interns this year to build out the organization’s many open-source projects.

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Finance

BRD Is Breaking Into the Crypto Compliance Game

The new tech stack will provide AML and compliance tools for financial institutions, government agencies and cryptocurrency service providers.

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Tech

New on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network: LND Adds Accounting Feature, c-lightning Gets an Upgrade

Lightning Labs made bookkeeping easier for node operators. Blockstream’s c-lightning 0.9.1 release improves channel opening and routing mechanisms.

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Markets

Ava Labs Sets Avalanche Mainnet Launch for Sept. 21

With $60 million in funding at its back, Ava Labs' Avalanche is the latest next-gen blockchain network to enter the DeFi landscape.

Ava Labs founder Emin Gün Sirer (CoinDesk archives)

Tech

Discreet Log Contracts Are Bringing Private, ‘Scriptless’ Smart Contracts to Bitcoin

A smart contract has logged bets for the U.S. election on Bitcoin’s blockchain. When the votes are tallied, we won’t know who won, but that’s the whole point.

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