With renewing public institutions on the agenda, the Network State could be an idea whose time has come. If so, Srinivasan will again have been prescient.| CoinDesk
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Traders continue to position for price gains through options even as BTC trades listless below $100K.| CoinDesk
Kenneth Rogoff reflects that he underestimated BTC's role in the underground economy, which has put a floor under the cryptocurrency's price.| CoinDesk
Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic found that the online organization raised a mere $21,000 in crypto for Hamas since the October 7th attacks.| CoinDesk
Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo wrote a letter to lawmakers discussing the extent to which Hamas may be using crypto.| CoinDesk
Just after Hamas' terrorist attacks in Israel last year, crypto took blame for helping fund such brutal killing. While the prominent media reports were later bashed by cryptocurrency experts, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's top official on terrorism financing confirmed to lawmakers on Wednesday the situation was blown out of proportion.| CoinDesk
The position marks one of the largest known bitcoin allocations by a U.S. university endowment.| CoinDesk
The declining correlation between bitcoin and altcoins suggests potential for increased market volatility and forced liquidations, per one observer.| CoinDesk
A large number of protocols on the two chains haven't captured any value lately, in what looks like on-chain version of disguised unemployment.| CoinDesk
More than a dozen blockchain firms inadvertently hired IT workers from the rogue state, incurring cybersecurity and legal risks, a CoinDesk investigation found.| CoinDesk
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The $60 million hack in 2016 led to a controversial revision of the blockchain, and was a factor leading to the ICO boom starting the following year, argues David Z Morris. This feature is part of our “CoinDesk Turns 10” series.| CoinDesk