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Facebook's Libra Crypto Code Draws Critiques and Clones on GitHub

Would-be coders and eager trolls are digging into the early code for Facebook's Libra blockchain.


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Billions to Trillions: Crypto Assets and the Inevitability of Digitization

As with the evolution of music consumption, digitization of securities will have far-reaching effects, writes Ami Ben David of Ownera.

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A Wannabe Netflix Raised $575 Million on Ethereum – Then Ditched Crypto

From yachting with Selena Gomez to doling out TaTaTu tokens to movie stars, one producer's road to Hollywood was paved with ICO excess.

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Buried in Facebook's Libra White Paper, a Digital Identity Bombshell

Buried in Facebook’s Libra white paper are two sentences hinting the project's ambitions go even further than minting a global currency.

Mark Zuckerberg image via Facebook

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This Ethereum Lottery Perfectly Explains How Facebook's Big Corporate Backers Will Profit From Crypto

This is a post about a lossless DAI lottery called PoolTogether. But it's really about how Facebook's Libra project will make money for its big backers.

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Meeting Bitcoiners Online When They Live in the Same City

Bitcoin developer Mark "Murch" Erhardt tells CoinDesk about the most surprising interaction he ever had in his years of running the Bitcoin Stack Exchange. Turns out the crypto world *is* that small!

Murch, Bitcoin

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Howey Schmowey – The Real Answer is to Update Securities Regulations

The SEC should focus more on fraud prevention than if an asset is a security, as fraud can be committed with securities too, argues David Weisberger.

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Why Ethereum's Privacy Matters and What's Being Built to Support It

With the goal of boosting adoption, these four projects are building tools that advance privacy on ethereum.

(CoinDesk archives)

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Staking Isn't Just a Way to Earn Crypto Money – And It Shouldn't Be

Staking is getting attention for all the wrong reasons, and it’s time to re-examine its role, argues Decred's Jake Yocom-Piatt.

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Facebook's Cryptocurrency Wants to Take on Banks, Not Bitcoin

If bitcoin doesn't need to worry about competition from Facebook. Who does? You've guessed it, the banks.

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