Pornhub Subsidiary to Reward Viewers With Crypto Tokens
Tube8, an adult video service and subsidiary of Pornhub, has partnered up with with the Vice Industry Token (VIT) to pay viewers for interacting with its services.
Hard Fork reported …
Wikipedia Has ‘Zero Interest’ in an ICO, Says Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has said the not-for-profit online encyclopedia platform will “never” hold an ICO or issue its own cryptocurrency.
Speaking to Business Insider after giving a speech at…
NFL Players Union Strikes Deal to Help Athletes Earn Crypto
The players’ union for the National Football League (NFL) is partnering with a blockchain startup to help athletes license products on a decentralized network.
Announced Tuesday, the National Football League…
Monero-Style Privacy Is Ready for Ethereum – Who Will Implement It?
What if ethereum looked more like monero?
Fusing the privacy features of the latter into ethereum would make many of the platform’s stakeholders, including developers who have been working on…
There’s a Bigger Scam Than Anything in Crypto, It’s Called KYC/AML
Edan Yago has spent the last seven years engaged in payments using cryptocurrencies, first at Zynga, then as CEO of Epiphyte and now as the founder of a stealth startup…
Bitcoin’s Price Is Nearing $10K On a Single, Troubled Exchange
Cryptocurrency exchange WEX continues to see prices well out of step with the broader market amid a near-total freeze on customer withdrawals.
As CoinDesk reported, customers of WEX – a…
Meet Honeyminer: The App That Lets You Earn Bitcoin With a Laptop Again
New mining software promises to let almost anyone earn small amounts of bitcoin with a Windows laptop, giving users a taste of the cryptocurrency’s early days.
Revealed exclusively to CoinDesk,…
Don’t Let the Crypto Circus in Congress Fool You
Michael J. Casey is the chairman of CoinDesk’s advisory board and a senior advisor for blockchain research at MIT’s Digital Currency Initiative.
The following article originally appeared in CoinDesk Weekly,…
Who’s In Control of Tezos? That Answer Is About to Change
“To me, it kind of feels similar to the beginning of ethereum.”
Andrew Paulicek, founder of Happy Tezos, isn’t the only one excited about the upcoming milestone in the life…
Bitcoin’s Biggest Startups Are Backing a New Effort to Keep Fees Low
2017 was a wake-up call for bitcoin supporters to say the least.
With so many people using the software amid a price boom, the fees for sending transactions swelled higher…
Civic Is Turning Identity.com Into a Crypto-Powered Personal Data Market
“I never thought we’d get it.”
That’s Vinny Lingham, co-founder and CEO of the blockchain identity startup Civic, talking about the company’s acquisition of “Identity.com” – a fitting web domain…
Sex Workers Have Serious Issues With a Crypto-Powered ‘Uber for Escorts’
“Too pimp-like and not safe to use.”
That’s how one sex worker, who spoke on condition of anonymity, described the cryptocurrency platform PinkDate, for which she was invited to test…
A US Election Probe Implicated Bitcoin – And the Reaction Was Swift
Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general of the U.S., sparked a social firestorm when he revealed that the dozen Russian military intelligence officers indicted on Friday used bitcoin to fund…
Russians Indicted for US Election Hacks Used Bitcoin to Fund Operations
A group of Russian military intelligence officers indicted Friday as part of an ongoing investigation into interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election allegedly used bitcoin to fund their operations.…