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Coinbase Is in Talks to Launch Its Own Insurance Company

Coinbase is exploring plans to set up its own regulated insurance company with the help of broker Aon, sources told CoinDesk.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong speaks at Consensus 2019.

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Safety Without Silos: Why Businesses Will Learn to Love Public Ethereum

Enterprises are finally realizing that mainnet ethereum is a way to end decades of brittle, balkanized and bespoke system integration, writes John Wolpert.

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Billion-Dollar Returns: The Upside of Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency

If Libra achieves even modest adoption, the payoff for Facebook and its partners could be in the billions.

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Casa Launches Lightning Node Mobile App for Bitcoin Newbies

Casa's new wallet aims to help aspiring cypherpunks graduate from getting their first bitcoin to running their own lightning node.

Casa’s Sats app

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'Disappointed' by Central Bank Blockchain, Russia's Largest Bank Eyes Alternatives

Enterprise blockchain project Masterchain is falling short of expectations – and Russia's largest bank is looking for other options.

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Monero and Zcash Conferences Showcase Their Differences (And Links)

The future of privacy coins relies on technologists getting the governance setup right. Here are both sides of the zcash debate.

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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