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Ethereum

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Cryptocurrencies

SEC Sues Crypto Exchange Bittrex Shortly After It Announces It's Leaving U.S. Markets

The SEC seems to believe that all crypto exchanges are unregistered security dealers and inherently breaking the law.

Brian Doherty | 4.19.2023 11:30 AM

A red background with digital gold coins and a black banner with white text that says securities | Illustration: Lex Villena; Brian Weed

Cryptocurrencies

Federal Judge Blasts SEC for Poorly Argued Attempts To Claim Cryptocurrencies Must Be Regulated by Them

SEC agents cannot explain to a federal judge what its policies and attitudes regarding virtual currencies are—or how they are going to impact the industry.

Brian Doherty | 3.16.2023 4:55 PM

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Cryptocurrencies

The Tornado Cash Crackdown Is an Attack on Speech and Privacy

For the first time ever, the Treasury Department has sanctioned not a person or a group but a digital tool and all who would use it.

Zach Weissmueller | 8.19.2022 10:40 AM

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Bitcoin

Zach Weissmueller: Why Cryptocurrency Privacy Software Restrictions Violate Free Speech Rights

Senior Producer Zach Weissmueller explores how the crackdown on cryptocurrency tools has implications for free speech and financial privacy.

Peter Suderman | 8.19.2022 6:00 AM

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NFTs

Artist Tom Sachs: 'Apple Could Never Make Anything as Shitty as the Things I Make'

The Rocket Factory NFT project stands at the intersection of crypto, the metaverse, and persistent human longing for the new frontier.

Nick Gillespie | 3.23.2022 4:07 PM

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Cryptocurrencies

China Expands Crypto Crackdown, Targeting Mining and Overseas Platforms

Though domestic crypto transactions were banned back in 2017, today's move signals that Chinese authorities are making good on their threats from earlier this year.

Liz Wolfe | 9.24.2021 3:30 PM

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Cryptocurrencies

What Happens If Cryptocurrency Technologies Are Regulated as Securities?

The SEC is getting serious about initial coin offering (ICO) oversight.

Andrea O'Sullivan | 6.26.2018 8:30 AM

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Facebook

Mark Zuckerberg vs. Silicon Valley's Richard Hendricks: Why Facebook 'Welcomes' Regulation

HBO's hit sitcom about the tech industry lights a real-world path to a better internet.

Todd Krainin, Nick Gillespie, and Jim Epstein | 4.11.2018 3:37 PM

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Blockchain

Can Ethereum Overcome Its Immense Technical Problems? [Podcast]

Princeton Computer Science Professor Michael Freedman on why scaling this blockchain-based computing platform will be so difficult.

Jim Epstein and Ian Keyser | 7.26.2017 2:00 PM

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Cybersecurity

Bot-Run Company of the Future Gets Hacked

A funny thing happened on the way to a post-capitalist, crypto-anarchist utopia.

Andrea O'Sullivan | 8.16.2016 8:30 AM

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Ethereum

Ethereum Markets Reeling After Security Fault Allows Massive Theft

The DAO, which uses Ethereum for decentralized venture capital investing, targeted in multi-million theft.

Brian Doherty | 6.17.2016 2:25 PM

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Ethereum

An Autonomous, Software-Based Venture Capital Fund Just Raised $163 Million. It's the Largest Crowdfunding Campaign in History.

Technology stays one step ahead of government.

Jim Epstein | 5.22.2016 1:00 PM

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Policy

Augur May Become the Greatest Gambling Platform in History. Is There Anything the Government Can Do to Stop It?

A blockchain-based prediction market that won't be controlled or managed by anyone.

Jim Epstein | 8.11.2015 12:36 PM

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Economics

Here Comes Ethereum, an Information Technology Dreamed Up By a Wunderkind 19-Year-Old That Could One Day Transform Law, Finance, and Civil Society

Can Ethereum help eliminate corruption and bureaucracy in the developing world?

Jim Epstein | 3.19.2015 12:10 PM

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