Cryptocurrency

Former Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo, also known as “Crypto Dad” discusses his push to digitize the U.S. dollar and the future of global currencies.

May 11, 2020

Ricardo Spagni, better known as “Fluffypony” discusses privacy and whether or not central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are just a fleeting trend. The monero community leader speaks with CoinDesk’s Leigh Cuen in Davos, Switzerland.

May 11, 2020

Michael Sung, a professor at Shanghai’s Fudan University, spoke to CoinDesk’s Michael Casey at the World Economic Forum 2020. The topic? The intertwined growth of digital currency and blockchain projects in China.

May 11, 2020

Throughout the seven volatile years during which Circle founder Jeremy Allaire has been developing crypto products he has consistently warned that there was much work to do before the technology is ready for mass usage.

May 11, 2020

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell answered questions posed by Rep. Bill Foster (D-Illinois) regarding the competitive threat to the U.S. dollar’s status as a global reserve currency by China’s ambitions to create a digital yuan and the proposal of Libra. Source: Financial Services Committee hearing, Feb. 11, 2020.

May 11, 2020

Economist Judy Shelton answered questions at a hearing before the Senate Banking Committee considering her nomination for the Federal Reserve Board by President Donald Trump. Here’s how Shelton answered Senator Tom Cotton’s (R-Arkansas) inquiry on whether the U.S. should move to digitize the dollar to preserve the greenback’s global primacy.

May 11, 2020

Cindy Zimmerman is KeyFi’s Co-founder and Lead Security Engineer. Find out how she and her mother Judy Katzman have forged successful careers as software developers in cryptocurrency and the blockchain industry.

May 11, 2020

In this interview with Protocol Specialist at Bison Trails, Viktor Bunin, we discuss his company's current growth and why they're still backing Libra.

May 11, 2020

Governor Polis joined CoinDesk's Will Foxley at ETHDenver where he talked about breaking down the mess of regulations holding back fintech in his state.

May 11, 2020

There’s now a case study for how DeFi can go awry. bZx, the eighth-largest decentralized finance project according to DeFi Pulse, suffered two attacks last weekend following the introduction of “flash loans,” a new DeFi feature that limits a trader’s risk while improving the upside.

May 11, 2020