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  Fastex Celebrates NFT Innovation With Third ftNFT YoCerebrum Awards

  The great and the good of the NFT space descended on Malta this week for the third edition of the ftNFT YoCerebrum Awards, recognizing the most outstanding achievements in the field of non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Artists, creators and collectors gathered at Fort Manoel on Malta’s Manoel Island for the awards, which were selected through a public voting system on the blockchain combined with data from the fnNFT marketplace, and a jury drawn from the worlds of art and Web3. Winners were selected...

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  $4.4 Billion EOS Token Raise Fueled by Wash Trading, Says New Research

  The EOS token sale raised $4.4 billion in 2018, becoming the biggest initial coin offering (ICO) of all time—but also the subject of considerable controversy.  Now, a new paper, by University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business finance professor John Griffin and forensic analysis firm Integra FEC, has unearthed fresh evidence of irregularities in the form of a pattern of “suspicious trades” during the ICO. Griffin—who previously investigated stablecoin Tether—suggests that these transa...

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  Elon Musk's Evolving View of Bitcoin

  Yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk sent shockwaves around the crypto world with his announcement that the EV manufacturer will no longer accept Bitcoin payments, due to concerns over its environmental impact.  “We are concerned about rapidly increasing use of fossil fuels for Bitcoin mining and transactions, especially coal, which has the worst emissions of any fuel,” the Tesla CEO said in a tweet, adding that Bitcoin’s recent energy consumption is “insane.” Tesla & Bitcoin pic.twitter.com/YSswJmVZ...

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  The 10 Biggest ICOs: Here’s Where the Money Went

  Three years ago, awash with funds from the last, frenzied Bitcoin bull run, investors poured over $22 billion into initial coin offerings (ICOs)—a then-novel method of raising funds, which was popularized by Ethereum in 2016. Throughout 2017 and 2018, ICOs enabled hundreds of projects to raise the funds they needed, on their promises to build the infrastructure for a new decentralized, digital future—from large-scale data storage and fairer payments for artists to complex, new financial products...

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  Hacker Noon links up with Coil to enable crypto-based micropayments

  Technology publishing platform Hacker Noon has garnered a $1 million investment from the San Francisco-based Coil, a startup founded by former Ripple CTO Stefan Thomas that helps content creators monetize their material through an open, online standard known as Web Monetization. The three-year deal aims to help Hacker Noon writers earn money for their content depending on how much time Coil users spend reading their stuff.  Breaking: We Raised $1M From @Coil, Will Stream Micropayments from Read...

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  This week in crypto: Tether goes for gold, Hacker Noon, and Davos

  Congratulations, you’ve finished another one. A full week, that is, of convincing people of the woes of centralized databases, with a will as staunch and unwavering as an immutable ledger. At Decrypt, we’ve done our bit, too, and have neatly summarized our offerings to the blockchain with the latest installment of This Week in Crypto. And what a week it’s been: blockchain visited the elite conference of Davos, Tether Gold launched, and Hacker Noon goes on the blockchain...and that’s just the tip...

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  Hacker Noon, a popular tech site, goes on the blockchain

  Ten months ago, after having a falling out over ad revenue with the publishing platform Medium,  Hacker Noon decamped and set up its own website. It was a risky move—but, apparently, it’s paid off. The site weaned itself off Medium, raised more than $1 million in crowdfunding, and launched Hacker Noon 2.0 in July. And according to founder and CEO David Smooke, the site now provides a platform to 7,000 volunteer writers, who bring in 200,000 daily visits, generating over 4 million monthly readers...

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  The hunt for Satoshi Nakamoto: a brief history

  Is Bitcoin’s mysterious inventor just one person, or a whole team of programming experts? These questions plague journalists and crypto enthusiasts alike. And the suspect list has grown to more than a dozen people – including Elon Musk. Bitcoin is a decade old, and the hunt continues. Here’s what we know about the elusive Satoshi Nakamoto. Bitcoin beginnings  Way back in 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published a paper called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System.” A few months later, the Bitc...

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  Blockstack CEO Muneeb Ali: Always think like a student

  Muneeb Ali is co-founder and CEO of Blockstack. But his career has taken a meandering path to get here. A graduate of Princeton, Ali spent his formative years working in academia on ways to improve existing internet protocols. After a chance encounter with a colleague inside the computer science faculty, Ali diverted away from his research to explore how the decentralized web might provide a solution to digital rights for all. In this profile we explore that journey and why for Ali, there's alwa...

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  Cryptopia exchange $2.5 million loss: Etherdelta hacker strikes again?

  Update [January 17 10:00]: According to Elvis Lee, product and strategy at Etherscan, the blockchain records do not show the Etherdelta hacker was behind the attack. He told Decrypt the links between the hacker and the stolen funds were owned by ShapeShift meaning that whoever stole the money from Cryptopia had used it as a mixing service, swapping the stolen funds with other people. This is despite ShapeShift having recently introduced KYC measures. Update [January 16 14:30]: Binance CEO Changp...

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