The freedom to transact is as important as freedom of expression, says Robert F. Kennedy Jr—and it was the reaction to the COVID-19 pandemic that brought him to this realization. The Democratic presidential candidate spoke today in Miami at Bitcoin 2023 in his first public appearance as a candidate and the conference’s most anticipated event of the week. Nearly every…
Argentinians can now purchase dairy produce with the USDT stablecoin at the Central Market of Buenos Aires — one of the largest movers of fruits and vegetables in Latin America. The move was enabled by a partnership between the stablecoin issuer Tether and on-/off-ramp platform KriptonMarket. The collaboration will provide companies the ability to accept and pay bills with USDT,…
The demand for Ethereum self-custody solutions is growing, according to Jameson Lopp, co-founder and chief technology officer of Bitcoin wallet provider Casa. In a conversation with Cointelegraph at Bitcoin 2023, Lopp stated that Casa has found it necessary to provide Ethereum support due to the increased number of Ethereum users seeking the service. Incidents like the collapse of FTX in…
Gary Vee on the NFT Market and Why ‘NFTs Are Stuffed Animals’ Gary Vaynerchuk called the NFT market decline back in 2021, but the owner of CryptoPunks and other valuable tokenized assets still believes that a sustainable market will eventually form. He joins Decrypt’s Andrew Hayward amid VeeCon 2023 to discuss why he thinks the NFT space will be comparable…
AI makes the heart grow fonder. Just ask YouTuber Anthony Riera, a Frenchman (of course) who delegated the arduous task of responding to prospective Tinder matches with TinderGPT. Powered by GPT-3, the AI was trained to understand Riera’s tastes and help him meet the love of his life—or at least someone to share a dinner or two. Image: YouTube “What…
A combination of more hash rate coming online from mining plants and a price protection approach is shielding Bitcoin (BTC) mining firm Marathon Digital Holdings (Nasdaq: MARA) through the bear market, told Cointelegraph its CEO Fred Thiel. In an exclusive interview during the 2023 Bitcoin Conference in Miami, Thiel disclosed the strategy behind Marathon’s figures in the first quarter of…
The legislation would oblige exchanges to maintain reserves “in an amount sufficient to fulfill all obligations to customers.” Source: https://cointelegraph.com/app/public/index.php/news/texas-proof-of-reserve-bill-passes-through-the-senate
Gary Vee Discusses VeeCon 2023’s Broader Shift Beyond Web3 VeeCon is back in 2023, moving from Minneapolis to Indianapolis, and creator and entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk joined Decrypt to discuss his aim to make it the “coolest business conference in the world.” And that means expanding the focus beyond NFTs and Web3 to include AI and other tech innovations, along with…
The BIT token will soon undergo a branding transformation to become Mantle, a measure approved through a high majority vote on May 19 on a proposal to optimize the token ahead of the launch of a new layer-two mainnet. As Cointelegraph reported on May 12, the BIP-21 proposal sought to unify the BitDAO ecosystem under a “One brand, One token”…
Welcome to Finance Redefined, your weekly dose of essential decentralized finance (DeFi) insights — a newsletter crafted to bring you the most significant developments from the past week. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is on the lookout for DeFi hackers and exploiters who have stolen millions of dollars worth of assets. The DOJ’s top crypto cop said it…
