I just spent an entire week working in virtual reality using the new Meta Quest 3. While the experience still mostly sucked, I came away with some renewed optimism for VR in the workplace. As I took Ron’s outstretched, virtual hand for a handshake, my actual hand — in the …

From privacy coins to shiny iris-scanning orbs, zero-knowledge proofs have become synonymous with crypto, scalability and privacy. In 2022, investors gave over $700 million in funding to companies pushing the envelope with zero-knowledge proofs. This year, ZK-proofs has arguably become one of the biggest blockchain trends, with several major Ethereum …

Digital assets should not be seen as “somehow special,” nor should action against Coinbase be seen as “novel or extraordinary,” argues an association of North American securities regulators. In an Oct. 10 filing in a New York District Court supporting the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, the North American …

Bitcoin (BTC) could see “substantial inflows” from China within the next few months, amid a weakening Chinese yuan and one of the country’s biggest capital flights in years.  “The familiarity of Bitcoin by Chinese investors in times of a weakening domestic economy could see substantial inflows into Bitcoin over the …

Last month, Bulgarian plumbers were called to clear a blocked drain at an apartment block in the capital of Sofia. The blockage turned out to be the decomposing remains of 41-year-old United States crypto mogul Christian Peev — suspected to have been battered to death with a dumbbell by a …

Artificial intelligence could be the missing piece for decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs), while trained AI models could become valuable assets on-chain, according to the co-founder of Framework Ventures. Speaking to Cointelegraph on Sept. 5 at Korea Blockchain Week, Vance Spencer, the co-founder of the crypto-focused venture firm, shared four predictions …

Over the 15 years since Bitcoin was created, there has been no shortage of crazy conspiracy theories about how it was made and where it came from.  Some believe Bitcoin was the work of “a bunch of engineers” in the Chinese Communist Party — presumably for world domination; others claim …

There was a time when anything generated by ChatGPT was fascinating.  To fathom that a super-intelligent robot was writing poetry, drafting legal documents or even acting as a personal life coach was mind-boggling. As if each prompt was a window into a kind of shared human consciousness. That was the …

Defrost Finance, the decentralized buying and selling platform that suffered a $12 million exploit main as much as Christmas, has denied allegations that it had “rugged” its customers as a part of an elaborate “exit rip-off.” On Dec. 23, the platform introduced it suffered a flash mortgage assault, resulting in …