April 2020

Harry Halpin, a speaker at Consensus: Distributed, talks about his lockdown, and how Crypto Twitter was right, for once.

Immunity passes could allow people who have had the virus to return to normal life. Here’s how they work, and why we might worry.

Binance launches the Venmo of Africa, Cuba gets a new exchange and Starbucks will trial the “digital yuan.”

Mike Blandina, Bakkt’s CEO since December 2019, will be stepping down from the role, CoinDesk has learned.

Announced today, the Blockstack testnet is open. Developers can now simulate the Stacks blockchain’s new, hybrid consensus mechanism, which Blockstack calls Proof-of-Transfer (PoX).

Bitcoin is going around and around while Italy uses the blockchain to prevent fake news. It’s CoinDesk’s Markets Daily podcast.

A limited liability autonomous organization is the next chapter of capital formation, Aaron Wright and Priyanka Desai of OpenLaw explain.

The payments app launched initially in Nigeria, but there are plans to expand to 30 African nations his year.

On this final episode of the Bitcoin in Africa series, we join Anita Posch as she travels to Botswana and speaks with Alakanani Itireleng on bitcoin’s present and potential future in the “original home of the honey badger”

Glen Weyl, an intellectual firebrand of the Ethereum community, played a key role in crafting a pandemic-fighting blueprint just published by Harvard.