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To Unplug or Double Down? Crypto Mining in Crypto Winter

Tough market conditions are forcing miners to make tough decisions. Jeff Wilser checks in with Econoalchemist, a longtime pseudonymous miner.

Crypto mining stocks have lost roughly half of their value in the past month. (Sandali Handagama for CoinDesk)

Markets

Ledger's Vault Scores $150 Million in Crypto Insurance From Lloyd's Syndicate

The move is another sign that the insurance industry is gradually becoming comfortable writing coverage for digital assets.

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Markets

You Can Now Prove a Whole Blockchain With One Math Problem – Really

According to Electric Coin Company research, you can prove the whole bitcoin blockchain in less space than a bitcoin blockhead, only 80-bytes of data.

rubik, cube

Markets

Facebook's Libra Lacks Foundational Components for Crypto Key Security

After a review of documentation for the Libra protocol and its planned ecosystem, Steven Sprague believes Facebook left out key security components.

keys, security

Markets

Bitcoin and Blockchain: The Tangled History of Two Tech Buzzwords

The word "blockchain" isn't used in the bitcoin white paper, the document that started it all. So, how did the term take off as a buzzword?

blockchain shirt

Markets

About That Orange B... The History of Bitcoin’s Logos

Can a logo symbolize the ethos of a project? An industry? An entire movement? Bitcoin's might have come close.

Bitcoin symbol on keyboard

Finance

Is It Time for a Blockchain Brexit?

The U.K. is on the brink of a previously unthinkable 'hard Brexit' from the European Union. A solution could be found in the capabilities of blockchain.

Brexit

Markets

How Lightning Makes Bitcoin Great Again (for Payments)

Lightning Labs' Alex Bosworth talks about how the lightning network provides bitcoin's best hope for becoming the payments network of the future.

Lightning, bosworth

Markets

I Got the Mark of the Beast – And It Will Hold My Bitcoin

There's a lot of overlap between bitcoiners and body hackers. CoinDesk editor Bailey Reutzel traveled to Austin, Texas to explore that crossroads and become a bitcoin holding (literally) cyborg.

body hacking, implant

Markets

The Virtuous Circle of Market Data

The growth of data analytics is about more than extracting insights from bits and bytes – it’s about the role of markets, argues Noelle Acheson.

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