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| Nov 21, 2024 | The Shifting Sands of Crypto: A New Era of Identity and Governance | The cryptocurrency landscape is a shifting terrain, where innovation and controversy dance a delicate waltz. Recent developments signal a pivotal moment in this digital frontier. As Bitcoin reaches new heights, projects like Worldcoin are r... |
| Nov 20, 2024 | The Protocol: ENS on Bitcoin; Worldcoin, Without the Eyeballs
Trump Considers Crypto Lawyer for SEC Chair, Picks Howard Lutnick for Commerce Secretary | Welcome to The Protocol, CoinDesk's weekly wrap-up of the most important stories in cryptocurrency tech development. I'm Marc Hochstein, CoinDesk's deputy editor-in-chief for features, opinion and standards.
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| Nov 6, 2024 | The Protocol: Elections, Schmections. Blockchain's Got Work to Do
Bitcoin Hits New $76K Record High, ETFs Post $620M Inflows | A lot of people are saying, people inside CoinDesk, that nobody's going to read anything on Wednesday that isn't elections-related. Well maybe they don't know about all the INCREDIBLE CONTENT we have assembled in this week's The Protocol ne... |
| Oct 23, 2024 | The Protocol: Justin Sun, Bitcoin Mempool Sniping, XRP for Harris, Inspirational Women
ApeCoin's Price Surge: What's Next After the Blockchain Debut? | Is Tron founder Justin Sun good or bad for wrapped bitcoin (WBTC), the Ethereum token backed by bitcoin held in custody? It was a one-sided argument before – mostly bad. Now, there's a counterargument that's not entirely crazy. Read down fo... |
| Oct 9, 2024 | The Enigma of Satoshi: Peter Todd and the Future of Bitcoin | The identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, the elusive creator of Bitcoin, remains a tantalizing mystery. Recently, HBO's documentary, "Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery," reignited speculation by suggesting that Peter Todd, a prominent ... |
| Oct 9, 2024 | The Protocol: Peter Todd Wants to Fix Satoshi's Bitcoin Bugs | We watched the HBO documentary on Satoshi Nakamoto's possible identity just like everyone else. It was one of those where-were-you-when moments. The film was entertaining enough. We've got the rundown here – and also: a fresh angle! Some mi... |
| Sep 18, 2024 | The Protocol: How Winklevii Taught Dad BTC, Wild Flight to Singapore | This issue of The Protocol is packed with smart info (and interesting images). We're covering:
The new crypto project backed by former President Donald Trump (who in his spare time is campaigning as the Republican nominee in this year's U.S... |
| Aug 29, 2024 | The Ripple Effect: How Pavel Durov's Arrest Shakes the Crypto Landscape | In the world of cryptocurrency, news travels fast. Like wildfire, it spreads through the digital landscape, igniting discussions and stirring emotions. The recent arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has sent shockwaves through the crypto com... |
| Aug 28, 2024 | The Protocol: The Impact of Telegram CEO's Arrest on TON Blockchain | In this week's issue of CoinDesk's weekly newsletter on blockchain technology: Fresh SEC charges hit the OpenSea NFT-trading platform, the arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov impacts the TON blockchain, and crypto twitter erupts over Ethereu... |
| Aug 7, 2024 | The Protocol: Death Cross, Dip Buying and Developer Nerves | Here at The Protocol newsletter, we're focused on blockchain tech and usually don't go too deeply into crypto markets. But after a week like this, how can we not? Founders and developers have learned the hard way how the vagaries of price-g... |
| Aug 2, 2024 | Bitcoin's Political Dance: A New Era of Crypto Governance | The world of cryptocurrency is no longer just about trading and technology. It has entered the political arena, where Bitcoin is the star of the show. Recent events, particularly the Bitcoin Nashville conference, have highlighted this shift... |
| Jul 31, 2024 | The Protocol: Bitcoin Gets Political as U.S. Government Ponders Airdrops | Last week's Bitcoin Nashville conference dominated crypto news headlines – largely due to former U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign speech (and lots of promises) as well as Senator Cynthia Lummis's call for a national "Bitcoin Stra... |
| Jul 17, 2024 | The Protocol: Polymarket Feeds Political Junkies, With Nate Silver | It's hard enough keeping up with the twists and turns that have already happened in this year's U.S. presidential race. To keep tabs on the political-news handicapping within the predictions-betting site Polymarket (built atop the Polygon b... |
| Jul 10, 2024 | The Protocol: Side-Dealing Accusations Put Crypto VC Funding in Spotlight | The Ethereum Foundation's Vitalik Buterin drew more than 1,000 people into a room in Brussels at the EthCC conference, and CoinDesk's Margaux Nijkerk was on the scene. We've got that story plus lots of announcements emanating from Europe's ... |
| Jun 5, 2024 | The Protocol: Another Episode in the Layer-2 Teams Drama | Ethereum's layer-2 teams are butting heads once again. This time, major figures in the space are condemning Matter Labs, the creator of zkSync, over its decision to trademark the acronym "ZK," which is shorthand for "zero-kno... |
| May 29, 2024 | The Protocol: Behind the Scenes as Big-Tent Consensus Goes Up | The crowd has started rolling into Austin, Texas, for Consensus, CoinDesk's annual crypto conference, which runs Wednesday through Friday. We're incredibly excited for all the blockchain tech programming, as well as the chance to connect IR... |
| May 1, 2024 | The Protocol: EigenLayer's 'Intersubjective Forking' Is Objectively Not Done | EigenLayer, the Ethereum "restaking" project that quickly shot to the top ranks of the DeFi leaderboards thanks to so-called airdrop farmers, finally acknowledged plans to launch its own EIGEN token. The terms of the planned airdr... |
| Apr 24, 2024 | The Protocol: Analyzing Runes Impact as Bitcoin Fee Bonanza Fades | Last week's once-every-four-years Bitcoin halving came and went – just as Satoshi Nakamoto programmed it 15 years ago. But the big surprise was the fast uptake of Casey Rodarmor's new Runes protocol, his second big hit on the original block... |
| Apr 17, 2024 | The Protocol: Bitcoin Halving Spectacular, With Runes, 'Epic Sat,' Stacks Nakamoto | It's hard not to draw parallels between the general mood across parts of the planet last week, when people were jockeying to glimpse the solar eclipse, and the excitement building this week in the Bitcoin community, as the blockchain's quad... |
| Apr 10, 2024 | The Protocol: How to Engineer Harder Money, or Just Make Your Own
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Risk vs. Reward of Attacking Ethereum
Calendar | Bitcoin's supply growth is set to automatically drop by 50% when next week's "halving" arrives, Ethereum is pondering a cut in ETH issuance, and meme coin issuers are just no-holds-barred spinning up new ones. What's clear is that... |
| Apr 3, 2024 | The Protocol: Using the Money Printer
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SHIB, DOGE Dominate CoinDesk 20 in March
Calendar | One thing blockchain teams succeeded in long ago: coopting the money printer, from the initial coin offerings, or ICOs, in the late 2010s, to the current-vintage "token generation events," or TGEs. In the old days, stocks were sol... |
| Nov 15, 2023 | The Protocol: Ethereum Layer-2s Keep Coming as OKX Apes In | As blockchain developers head into the final stretch of 2023, a few trends stand out: the proliferation of Ethereum layer-2 networks, the ascendancy of zero-knowledge cryptography and the appearance of tokens, smart contracts and now file h... |