Pete Rizzo

Pete Rizzo was CoinDesk's editor-in-chief until September 2019. Prior to joining CoinDesk in 2013, he was an editor at payments news source PYMNTS.com.

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Ripple Adds 7 New Financial Institutions as Tech Partners

San Francisco-based distributed ledger tech provider Ripple has added seven partner financial institutions.

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Circle Execs: The DAO Proves Blockchains Require Trust

Circle founders Jeremy Allaire and Sean Neville weigh in on The DAO, the decentralized autonomous organization that was exploited this week.

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Coinbase Co-Founder Cautions Against Ethereum Hard Fork

Digital currency exchange operator Coinbase is weighing in on the ongoing crisis in the ethereum community over the fate of The DAO.

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Euroclear to Develop Blockchain Gold Settlement System

Clearing and settlement leader Euroclear has announced its first partnership with a blockchain industry business.

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Post-Trade Blockchain Startup in Limbo After Raising $10 Million

Blockchain startup Cryex is pushing back against reports it is seeking capital to stay afloat amid issues launching one of their core products.

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Investor Tim Draper is Still Buying Bitcoin and Now Owns Ether

Two years after buying roughly 30,000 BTC, investor Tim Draper is still passionate about the technology as well as competing blockchain offerings.

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Bitcoin Foundation Names South African Investor as New Director

Bitcoin’s oldest trade organization has voted in a new, relatively unknown executive director.

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$19 Million in Bitcoin Hits the Auction Block in Australia

More than $19m worth of bitcoin is now being sold at auction, though few details are available on participants involved.

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How a 3-D Printed Building Became the Center of Blockchain in Dubai

CoinDesk profiles a recent meeting of the Global Blockchain Council, a 40-member working group seeking to boost the technology in the MENA region.

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Sweden Tests Blockchain Smart Contracts for Land Registry

The government of Sweden is experimenting with how blockchain could be used to record land titles in a bid to digitize real estate processes.

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