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Markets

Michael Saylor: Mining Council Will 'Defend' Bitcoin Against 'Uninformed' and 'Hostile' Energy Critics

The Bitcoin Mining Council hopes to “manage concerns, especially from uninformed parties” about the cryptocurrency’s energy usage, Microstrategy CEO and bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor said.

MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor

Markets

Blockchain May Be 'an Existential Threat' to Fidelity, Institutional Head Says

The main driver of Fidelity’s increasing involvement in the crypto space is client interest, Mike Durbin said.

Mike Durbin, head of Fidelity Institutional, Fidelity Investments

Finance

Artists Who Now Make a Living Because of NFTs

For artists living in remote parts of the Philippines, the rhetoric of NFT empowerment isn't empty buzzwords.

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Markets

How Investors Can Gain Crypto Exposure Through Stocks

Stocks such as RIOT and COIN offer investors crypto exposure without owning BTC directly, according to a panel at Consensus 2021.

YTD returns of crypto related stocks

Policy

Bobby Lee Says Latest China 'Bitcoin Ban' Nothing to Fear and Nothing New

China's government is taking more drastic measures against bitcoin mining. The Ballet CEO thinks this will strengthen the network over time.

Bobby Lee

Markets

Sam Bankman-Fried Says Bitcoin Mining Council Opens an ‘Interesting Can of Worms’

Hopefully it will clean up the "stupid dialogue going on about ESG," he said. "Not in the sense that ESG was stupid, but that the dialogue was."

FTX Collapse: Breaking News & Analysis

Tech

Polkadot’s Gavin Wood: WebAssembly Is the Future of Smart Contracts, but ‘Legacy’ EVM Is Right Now

“It's super important to support these legacy protocols, these legacy languages, and that's what we're doing,” says the former Ethereum developer.

Gavin Wood (second from left) speaks at Web3 Summit 2019. (Credit: Christine Kim / CoinDesk)

Policy

Crypto May Force SEC to Modernize Custody Rules: Commissioner Hester Peirce

“The bottom line message I have is that we have work to do in modernizing our custody rules all across the board,” Pierce said.

SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce

Videos

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Markets Outlook

The crypto markets have been volatile over the last few weeks, spooked by China’s threats to miners and Elon Musk’s tweets flip-flopping on bitcoin’s sustainability. FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried weighs in on what’s going on in the crypto markets and what he expects to see in the near term.

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Tech

Dfinity Offering $220M in Developer Grants for Ambitious 'Internet Computer' Project

Meanwhile, 100,000 identities have been created on the network since its launch this month, founder Dominic Williams said at Consensus 2021.

Dfinity founder Dominic Williams speaks at Consensus 2019.