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At 6:00 UTC Thursday, the Stargate upgrade of Cosmos will go live. The Cosmos community recommends that interested observers follow along by watching the @cosmos account on Twitter.Stargate represents an important milestone for the Cosmos project on the way to launching its inter-blockchain communication (IBC) protocol that will allow the
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Music is back on the blockchain. Audius, a streaming service that connects music fans directly with artists, has raised $3.1 million in a strategic round co-led by Multicoin Capital and Blockchange Ventures, with participation from Pantera Capital and Coinbase Ventures. Audius has now raised a total of $8.6 million as the platform
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Pantera's Dan Morehead and 10T Holdings' Dan Tapiero can't agree on our economic future. Even so, they think it bodes well for bitcoin Source
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A $6 million seed funding round led by Gerard Lopez, founder and CEO of several prominent start-up ventures and tech security companies, an early investor in
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Most people today look at social platforms like any other private company, but what if we saw them as alternative jurisdictions with a new set of property rights? Here’s a radical idea. What if your time and effort building a following on social media and serving that following with your content
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Mark Zuckerberg’s new 10-year vision says a lot about Facebook’s plan for financial services – and nothing whatsoever about Libra. Unveiling a vision for 2030, the Facebook CEO unveiled a laundry list of decade's-end aims for his social media goliath, including an extensive "opportunity" for Facebook to "decentralize" finance and business.“Over
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This post is part of CoinDesk's 2019 Year in Review, a collection of 100 op-eds, interviews and takes on the state of blockchain and the world. David L. Shrier is a futurist and globally recognized authority on financial innovation, with dual appointments at MIT and the University of Oxford's Saïd
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Despite its fallacies, blockchain technology, as Satoshi envisioned it, presents an opportunity to transform the way financial markets workSatoshi Nakamoto created Bitcoin out of his distrust and the control governments and central banks have over the financial sector. After negative banking experiences, a global recession, and not being able to open
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