December 2019

A statist approach to blockchain development, like other industrial policies in the past, might yet prove successful in this market.

South Korea’s central bank plans to hire additional experts as it studies digital currencies and blockchain technology.

On today’s holiday episode, we’ll quickly define and demystify the blockchain term “smart contract.”

2020 is Ethereum 2.0’s year of delivery. We just have to trust in the community’s unusual model of development, says ConsenSys’s Eth2 adviser.

A bug in Twitter’s Android app let users connect random phone numbers to real Twitter handles.

From a trade war tweeting president to protests in Hong Kong, 2019 saw global instability (and in turn, the raison d’etre for bitcoin) increase.

YouTube shut down dozens of crypto videos in a move that it admits was a mistake.

Holiday spending rose this year as e-commerce overtook brick-and-mortar sales again this year.

While a grandfather clause allows crypto custodians to keep serving German customers without being penalized, those same companies are waiting on financial regulator BaFin to release final regulations around the law.

A new “digital fiat currency” for the Bahamas could turn the island nation in to a crypto testbed.