Weekly Headlines 2023.5 W4
“Bitcoin really doesn’t care about what anyone thinks and it offends VCs the most.” – Jimmy Song Weekly News Report: News 1. Visa, Microsoft and others join Brazilian CBDC pilot – Both national and global companies will participate in the upcoming pilot project of the Brazilian central bank digital currency....
Weekly Headlines 2023.5 W3
“The intransigent minority is intransigent because they believe in something. The wishy-washy majority are wishy-washy because they’re opportunists. The future belongs to those who have conviction.” – Jimmy Song Weekly News Report: News 1. Jack Dorsey’s TBD announces new Web5 toolkit – TBD, a division of fintech company Block,...
Weekly Headlines 2023.5 W2
“Don’t think of it as buying Bitcoin. Think of it as giving yourself the ability to plan for the future.” – Jimmy Song Weekly News Report: News 1. Binance Announces Exit from Canada, Citing Regulatory Tensions – Binance has announced that it would cease operations in Canada, citing the challenging...
Highlights and Trends from Consensus 2023
The annual Consensus crypto conference, which has been hosted by Coindesk since 2015, concluded successfully in Austin from April 26 to 28. As a major event in the crypto industry, the conference drew the attention of industry leaders, developers, KOLs, government officials, artists, and more. As one of the...
Weekly Headlines 2023.4 W4
“It takes great virtue to keep anything, whether it’s your reputation, integrity, or Bitcoins.” – Jimmy Song Weekly News Report: News 1. What to Expect at Consensus 2023 – April 26-28 conference in Austin run by CoinDesk, Consensus 2023 brings together major figures in crypto, finance, Web3, regulation, entertainment and...
Weekly Headlines 2023.4 W3
“#Bitcoin is the most interesting intellectual development on the Internet.” – Julian Assange Weekly News Report: News 1. Microsoft Working With Space and Time to Add Real-Time Blockchain Data for Azure Cloud – The agreement comes seven months after the tech giant led a strategic funding round for the...
Weekly Headlines 2023.3 W1
“General purpose zero knowledge blockchains have been positioned as the next big thing to scale Ethereum.” – Ganesh Swami, co-founder and CEO of Covalent Weekly News Report: News 1. ConsenSys, Developer of Ethereum Software, Says zkEVM Public Testnet to Go Live March 28 – Zero-knowledge, or ZK, a type of...
Weekly Headlines 2023.1 W2
“People talk about the [Bitcoin] problem of volatility, but this is nothing when you live in a place where your money could easily lose half its value in a year.” – Megasley, Nigeria’s first Lightning node runner Weekly News Report: News 1. Polygon’s Blockchain To Undergo Hard Fork – The software...
Weekly Headlines 2023.1 W1
“The key to generating real value through Web3 is by providing solutions that allow others to generate value for themselves.” – Dakota Barnett, Founder of InvArch Weekly News Report: News 1. Here’s how Bitcoin promotes global financial inclusion, according to Prince Philip of Serbia – Prince Philip of Serbia outlines key...
Weekly Headlines 2022.12 W3
“Sometimes you need to battle test, you need to go through crises to see the survivors.” – Cathie Wood Weekly News Report: News 1. Argentina’s province to issue US dollar-pegged stablecoin – The bill also authorizes local artists to issue nonfungible tokens (NFT) to promote financial and cultural inclusion. 2. Japan to...