Author name: Taylor Tate

A firm that has adapted MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin reserve strategy with the meme coin Dogecoin has revealed plans to earn yield on its DOGE coins, with future ambitions to potentially offer products based on other major cryptocurrencies as investors look for new ways to get higher returns on their tokens. Canadian investment firm Spirit Blockchain Capital

Airdrop season is in full swing, with apps, protocols, and other projects seizing upon bear market vibes to finally drop their tokens—and potentially reward millions of crypto users in the process. What exactly is an airdrop, though? When it comes to crypto tokens, an airdrop is typically a way for a project to reward its

Bitcoin mining is a big business in the U.S.—but how big? And will Donald Trump’s return to the White House make a difference?  The President-elect last year said—along with plenty of other pro-crypto pledges—that he wanted all remaining coins to be mined on American soil. Spoiler alert: This will be very difficult, if not impossible. 

American banks seeking to offer customers services built on public blockchain networks appear to have been discouraged from doing so by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, documents released Friday revealed.  The disclosure came courtesy of a trove of newly unredacted crypto-related correspondences between the FDIC and member banks. San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase obtained the

Solana developers have created a quantum-resistant vault that uses a decades-old cryptographic technique to protect users’ funds from potential quantum computer attacks. The solution, called Solana Winternitz Vault, implements a hash-based signature system that generates new keys for each transaction. The vault addresses a known vulnerability in blockchain technology: quantum computers could potentially crack the

A lot of rockets have taken off under Elon Musk’s watch, but the tech CEO and SpaceX co-founder just boosted one billed as digital ejaculate—for the second time. The price of CumRocket (CUMMIES) had jumped 68% Friday, hovering above $0.007 a day after Musk posted a meme on X (formerly known as Twitter) bearing the

Want $20 for each Apple device that might have eavesdropped on you? The Cupertino-based tech giant is ready to shell out up to $95 million to settle claims that Siri was a bit too eager to listen in on private conversations. Apple hasn’t admitted wrongdoing, but agreed to compensate U.S. users up to $100 per

It’s Bitcoin’s birthday: The very first Bitcoin block was mined 16 years ago today.  And the network is stronger than ever, with mining difficulty reaching a new all-time high mark as the biggest cryptocurrency rides into the new year.  Data from Bitinfocharts shows that Bitcoin difficulty hit a new all-time high of 109.78 trillion hashes

Telegram announced this week that it will allow users to turn gifts into NFTs on The Open Network using Telegram Stars, its in-app currency that is linked to Toncoin (TON), the native token of the blockchain network.  Gifts, unveiled by Telegram in October, are a collection of animated artworks and custom messages that can be