13 years ago today, the creator of the Bitcoin network, Satoshi Nakamoto published the inventor’s first forum post on the P2P Foundation website. The forum post called “Bitcoin open source implementation of P2P currency” introduced the e-cash system to the members of the advocacy and research forum focused on peer-to-peer dynamics in society. The First of 3 February 2009 Forum…
Among the original founding fathers of Ethereum (ETH) is Gavin Wood, who joined a group led by Vitalik Buterin that set out to build Bitcoin’s competition. Wood is the computer scientist who wrote the first smart contracts for the Ethereum blockchain back in 2014. In an exclusive interview with Cointelegraph, Wood admitted that at the time, he just needed a…
In brief Portals, a Solana-based metaverse project, has raised $5 million in seed funding. The NFTs start at $9,000 on secondary markets, and firms like FTX US and Binance.US have built their own Portals locales. While many of today’s metaverse projects—including Decentraland and The Sandbox—are building on Ethereum, we’re starting to see more movement on rival chains. The Solana-based Portals…
Missouri State Representative Phil Christofanelli introduced a bill on Thursday seeking to exempt bitcoin from property taxes at the state, county, and local levels. “My goal is to ensure Missouri is open to innovation and opportunity as Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, and blockchain applications come to the market,” Rep. Christofanelli said in a statement. “This industry has great potential to enhance…
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase ha penned a partnership agreement with One River Digital Assessment Management to provide institutional-grade wealth managers with an exclusive platform to acquire digital asset investments, and engage in related activities. Detailed in an official blog post, Coinbase claime that the creation of the ONE Digital SMA will grant exposure to “a suite of digital investment strategies and…
Multi-chain liquidity protocol Symbiosis Finance launches in the next week, enabling users to perform crypto token swaps across multiple blockchains with a single click. Unlike existing decentralized exchanges (DEXs), Symbiosis Finance supports cross-chain swaps between any blockchain that enables the generation of EdDSA and ECDSA keys. In practice, that means you can take, say, an ERC-20 token and swap it…
Uber, the world’s largest ride-sharing app, today doubled down on its plans to eventually accept various forms of cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin, for payment. Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber’s CEO, said in a Friday Bloomberg interview that the company would “absolutely” accept cryptocurrency in the future. “We are having conversations all the time [about cryptocurrency],” he said. “I think right now what we…
All things have their humble beginnings; in 2010, the first Bitcoin (BTC) mining project was created in Prague, Czechia, and was simply called Bitcoin.cz. Soon afterward, founder Mark “Slush” Palatinus decided to move on to other ventures, such as creating the world’s first cryptocurrency hard wallet, Trezor. As a result, Braiins, a company doing embedded Linux development and research, took…
In brief Vitalik Buterin took to Twitter in his mother tongue to urge Putin to avoid war. The Ethereum founder’s tweet comes as Russia is preparing to invade the smaller country. Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin made a foray into geopolitics on Friday, taking to Twitter to urge Russian President Vladimir Putin not to invade the country’s neighbor Ukraine. Vitalik’s message…
In brief Top NFT marketplace OpenSea has launched an investment arm, as well as a community grants program. OpenSea was recently valued at $13.3 billion, and generated more than $5 billion in NFT trading volume in January. OpenSea, the leading marketplace in the surging NFT industry, announced today that it will launch an investment arm to fund Web3 startups and…
