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New York Blockchain Week: 2019

Decrypt's coverage of NYC Blockchain Week events

Decrypt's coverage of all the events taking place at Blockchain Week in and around New York City.

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Last updated May 18, 2019

Vitalik Buterin discusses bribery, collusion and plutocrats

It’s actually kind of wonderful that one of the smartest people in the entire world—and certainly in crypto—has been thinking a lot lately about how to solve the problems that beset the downtr...

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Cryptocurrencies

Tim Copeland

May 18, 2019May 18, 2019

Curry with The Block’s Mike Dudas

Updated with comments from Joe Lubin. NEW YORK—Mike Dudas keeps offering me a job at his website, The Block, at a rate far higher than what I could possibly dream of at Decrypt. But I keep de...

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Cryptocurrencies

Ben Munster

May 17, 2019August 2, 2019

Justin Sun: We should have fired former-CTO Lucien Chen earlier

Tron’s former-CTO Lucien Chen has been causing grief for Tron founder Justin Sun. Chen published a Medium post May 10 (which has since been removed) alleging that Tron is—apostasy!—centralized...

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Cryptocurrencies

Tim Copeland

May 17, 2019May 16, 2019

Ethereum’s Danny Ryan: it’s time to get excited about testnets

Danny Ryan is not ashamed to say he had an emotional response when the first testnets for Ethereum 2.0. were launched this month. He was recently elected an unofficial project leader for the g...

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Technology

Adriana Hamacher

May 17, 2019May 16, 2019

How Ripple is building out the XRP ecosystem through Xpring

XRP is a cryptocurrency primarily known for its use in cross-border payments, an initiative largely led by Ripple. Yet, a larger ecosystem is now being built around the coin to provide other u...

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Cryptocurrencies

Tim Copeland

May 16, 2019May 18, 2019

U.S. Presidential Candidate Andrew Yang says words about blockchain at Consensus

Because he speaks eloquently and with the authority of a presidential candidate, Andrew Yang managed to swindle a very large crowd at Consensus into thinking he actually said anything. Yang, ...

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Cryptocurrencies

Ben Munster

May 15, 2019May 15, 2019

Justin Sun interview: Teslas, Twitter bots and his man crush on Vitalik Buterin

NEW YORK—Early yesterday morning, Tron’s head of communications, Cliff Edwards, hustled into the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. He was profusely apologetic, and kept trying to call, text and...

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Cryptocurrencies

Tim Copeland

May 15, 2019May 16, 2019

How Coinbase goes all out on security

Knock on wood: Coinbase is the only exchange yet to suffer a breach. CEO Brian Armstrong revealed a secret to its success to Wall Street Journal reporter Paul Vigna at Consensus this morning:...

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Cryptocurrencies

Ben Munster

May 15, 2019May 15, 2019

Opera to support Tron's TRX in browser wallet

Norway-based Opera announced today that it’s planning to support to Tron’s TRX and other TRC-standard tokens within its browser. Opera, whose first browser launched in 1996, has been at the c...

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Cryptocurrencies

Rebecca Campbell

May 15, 2019May 15, 2019

ShapeShift is having a butterfly moment

QuadrigaCX, Bitfinex, Binance… the list of exchanges that have seen customer funds stolen is increasing on a weekly basis. But there’s one exchange—ShapeShift—that’s determined to buck the tre...

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Cryptocurrencies

Adriana Hamacher

May 15, 2019May 16, 2019

Chainlink mainnet to go live on Ethereum at end of May

Chainlink CEO Sergey Nazarov announced today that the decentralized oracleprovider is to launch its service on the Ethereum mainnet on May 30. It’s the culmination of six years’ hard work for ...

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Technology

Adriana Hamacher

May 14, 2019May 15, 2019

Crypto traders get access to FDIC-insured accounts through Safra Bank

The risky world of cryptocurrency trading may soon be getting appreciably less risky—at least when cash is involved. SFOX, a San Francisco-based cryptocurrency prime brokerage, announced today...

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Business

Guillermo Jimenez

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019

Amazon Coin? Amazon says anything is possible

Facebook Coin, meet Amazon Coin? That’s a big maybe according to Amazon Web Services. The tech giant is using its own blockchain technology internally. When asked whether the company would ext...

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Cryptocurrencies

Ben Munster

May 14, 2019May 14, 2019

Joe Lubin and Jimmy Song sort details of high stakes blockchain bet

Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin and Bitcoin booster Jimmy Song have finalized the details of their long standing bet: if 5 unique, decentralized applications achieve 10,000 daily active users...

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Cryptocurrencies

Ben Munster

May 14, 2019May 16, 2019

Crypto Mom Hester Peirce: The time is still right for a Bitcoin ETF

The SEC has denied every Bitcoin ETF application that it has yet laid its eyes on, but there’s one voice within the Commission that hasn’t given up hope. SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce once ag...

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Cryptocurrencies

Tim Copeland

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019

Da Hongfei: NEO is deliberately more centralized than Bitcoin

NEO is a blockchain platform that claims to be much more scalable than Bitcoin and Ethereum. But there’s a catch—it uses a controversial, centralized blockchain to achieve it. And that’s all p...

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Cryptocurrencies

Tim Copeland

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019

Man betrayed by Justin Sun now loves Justin Sun

Remember Uziel Garcia (Twitter handle @uzgaroth), the guy from Puebla, Mexico who was promised a shiny new Tesla by “Tron” CEO Justin Sun? When it seemed as though Sun had pre-selected the win...

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Cryptocurrencies

Ben Munster

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019

Zebpay CEO: Binance hack leaves us with unanswered questions

At Consensus, New York, CEO of crypto exchange Zebpay, Ajeet Khurana, says the more he knows, the more questions he has about last week’s Binance hack. When the hack occurred, observers could ...

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Cryptocurrencies

Tim Copeland

May 13, 2019May 14, 2019

Multicoin’s Tushar Jain: why blockchain “reorg’s” will work

The prospect of “reorganizing” the Bitcoin blockchain was rejected as a way to recover the $40 million lost when the Binance exchange was hacked last week. In fact, the idea was so controversi...

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Technology

Adriana Hamacher

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019

Rocket Lawyer plans to bring blockchain to millions of customers

How do you get millions of customers to use your blockchain-based product? Make the technology "invisible" and build something people actually need—like access to legal services. Rocket Lawyer...

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Business

Guillermo Jimenez

May 11, 2019May 20, 2019