Ethereum, the second-largest crypto network, has achieved success well beyond what its creator, Vitalik Buterin, could have imagined when he initially thought up the smart contract platform as a teenager in the fall of 2013. It has a market cap of over $300 billion, it’s become popular with the likes…

On Tuesday, the federal government seized more than 94,000 Bitcoin ($3.6 billion) directly connected to the 2016 hack of a crypto exchange called Bitfinex and arrested two individuals for allegedly conspiring to launder those funds. (At the time of the original hack, the amount stolen was about $60 million, and…

From a young age, growing up in Ohio, Morgan Harper became aware that, in the United States, there wasn’t equal access to opportunity. She decided to go into public policy in order to address that, becoming a lawyer and ending up at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau after the financial…

Crypto is at a pivotal moment in the United States. For years, tension has been building over how it should be regulated, and it seems that the government is now frequently coming up with proposals that the industry finds untenable. This was most evident last summer during a fight over…

Decentralized finance (DeFi) has taken off in the last couple years and now has more than $190 billion of value locked in it. Traders active in DeFi typically love to chase high interest rates from protocol to protocol — lending, borrowing, and staking their tokens in so-called liquidity pools on…

This week, Electric Capital released its 2021 developer report on the developer ecosystems in crypto — and it shows that interest in Web3 is growing by leaps and bounds. While prices may be down this week, that is likely no matter to these developers. As The New York Times noted…

Traditionally, at the end of the calendar year following a Bitcoin halving, the crypto markets have reached new all-time highs. This pattern occurred in November/December 2013 after the halving in 2012, and again in December 2017, after the halving in 2016. …

In 2017, Mitchell F. Chan had been an artist for over a decade, incorporating technology into his artwork in order to make commentary on our technology-driven society. Then, he decided he wanted to make an artwork about our economic system. Half his career was spent doing big public artworks —…

William Lobkowicz is a would-be Czech prince, whose family has been patrons of the arts for more than 700 years. His Bohemian royal family collected artworks by the likes of Bruegel, Veslaquez, Canaletto, Beethoven, Haydn and many others — and then lost it all twice. Once to the Nazis, and…