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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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Libra White Paper Shows How Facebook Borrowed From Bitcoin and Ethereum
Cryptocurrency, at scale. That's Facebook's vision as laid out in the long-awaited, just-released Libra white paper.
Facebook Unveils Libra Cryptocurrency, Targeting 1.7 Billion Unbanked
Facebook's newly unveiled Libra blockchain is tackling remittances at first, but it could have a much broader impact.
Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency: A Technical Deep Dive
Technical details of Facebook's Libra blockchain were published Tuesday in a white paper by the Libra Foundation. Here's what stands out.
Stonewalled by FINRA, Up to 40 Crypto Securities Wait in Limbo for Launch
Wall Street watchdog FINRA has sat for as long as 12 months on roughly 40 broker-dealer applications by blockchain startups.
