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If a decentralized blockchain protocol is worried about being shut down by the authorities, how can it defend itself? A recent discussion surroundin…

Serial smart contract pyramid schemer Lado Okhotnikov   [This is a republication of my latest opinion piece from CoinDesk.] Last week the U.S. Secur…

Bitcoin evangelist Andreas Antonopoulos thinks that bitcoin can solve the unbanked problem. If you've spent any amount of time studying the unba…

I spend a fair amount of time tracking real-world use cases for cryptocurrencies. I'm not talking about silly speculation, or millionaire crypto …

A new type of crime has recently emerged: big-ticket repeatable ransomware . Bitcoin is the chosen payments method for ransomware gangs. But these ga…

The Royal Bank, Canada's largest bank, says that it won’t lend to clients that get more than 60% of their revenue from thermal coal or coal-fire…

When it comes to financial privacy, good old fashioned banknotes and privacy cryptocurrencies like Zcash & Monero get all the attention. But as I…

I was disappointed to see that First Trust Bank, a commercial bank based in Northern Ireland, will stop issuing its own brand of banknotes. Under di…