Cointelegraph interviewed Arif Khan, CEO of blockchain marketplace Alethea AI, about how to address the legal and moral quagmire that “deepfakes” have created. A blockchain-based marketplace is today launching for creators of “synthetic media,” a term used to describe video, image or voice material generated through artificial intelligence algorithms. On May 15, Cointelegraph interviewed Arif […]
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Decentralized finance faces a liquidity issue, but there are multiple solutions in the works that hope to tap into Bitcoin’s massive market cap. Decentralized Finance, or DeFi, has been making strides in providing tools for users to take control of their own money and truly be their own bank. However, the assets that power this […]
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Atari’s new partnership sets the stage for builders to incorporate the gaming powerhouse’s token. Atari has partnered with blockchain-as-a-service, or BaaS, company Arkane Network, allowing digital asset integration into gaming. A key aspect of the announcement sees developers able to build Atari’s Token into aspects of the gaming sphere, said a May 14 statement provided to […]
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One of the largest online networks, Reddit, has announced a new community points system based on the Ethereum blockchain. In a bid to create a more user-centric social media platform — “a free frontier” — Reddit has introduced its new community points system built on top of the Ethereum blockchain. In a slide presentation shared […]
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Monday may have been uneventful for Bitcoin’s price, but it was a historic moment nonetheless. Bitcoin’s (BTC) third block halving has finally taken place. The year’s most talked-about crypto event happened at 3:23 p.m. EST on Monday, May 11, as block number 630,000 was successfully mined. The Bitcoin block reward has now gone down from […]
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What a twist! YouTube pulled the plug on our seven-hour livestream. YouTube’s censorship rabbit hole is deep, especially as it pertains to cryptocurrency topics. Cointelegraph had a full day of programming lined up for a livestream that covered Bitcoin’s third block halving on May 11. The agenda mostly went off without a hitch — fintech […]
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Bitcoin suffers a “halving dump” after testing $10,000, what the event means for miners, and the latest predictions of where prices will be in 2021 and beyond. Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading […]
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An international campaign calling on credit card companies to block payments to porn sites could lead to a huge wave of new cryptocurrency adopters. According to a BBC report on May 8, a group of international campaigners and campaign groups has written to ten major credit card companies calling for the immediate suspension of payments […]
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Serial entrepreneur Jenny Ta has launched a crypto-powered social media network and marketplace platform that promises it won’t sell users’ data. CoinLinked, a social media network and marketplace platform founded by Wall Street veteran Jenny Q. Ta, launched on May 7. The platform will feature a utility token that rewards users for activity on the […]
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PewDiePie signed a deal to stream exclusively on YouTube after partnering with a blockchain streaming platform in 2019. Amid its ongoing war with crypto, video giant YouTube has signed a new deal with one of the world’s biggest popular YouTubers. PewDiePie, the top-subscribed independent video maker on YouTube, now has to leave blockchain video platform […]
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