A growing number of US mayors are embracing crypto and blockchain tech, hoping to create revenue streams with NFTs or mining, attract tech talent, and more
This new political breed accepts paychecks in Bitcoin. The mayors also want to use buzzy new tech like NFTs to raise money for public projects. Tweets: @rhhackett , @mayorconger , @brfreed , @billyco...
Material Security, which provides email security through integration with identity-protection products like Okta, raises $40M, bringing its total raised to $66M
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MetaKovan, an anonymous digital asset investor and founder of NFT focused crypto-based investment fund Metapurse, is the buyer of the $69M Beeple NFT
Sort Of Eileen Kinsella / Artnet News : ‘This Is Going to Be a Billion-Dollar Piece Someday’: The Buyer of the $69 Million Beeple NFT on Why It's the Greatest Artwork in a Generation Marion Maneker / ...
Eco, a personal finance app that offers yields of 2.5% to 5% and cash back for shopping at Amazon, Uber, and DoorDash, raises $26M led by a16z crypto
One of the challenges in any new industry — crypto being no exception … MK Manoylov / The Block : Personal banking startup Eco raises $26 million from investors Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk : Rewards-Focu...
Sources: US House report investigating Apple, Amazon, Google, and Facebook's power has been delayed as Democrats and Republicans are split on the remedies
Good morning! This Wednesday, let's take a deep breath … Karl Bode / Techdirt : Stop Pretending The Trump GOP Genuinely Cares About Monopoly Power Reuters : U.S. House antitrust findings on Big Tech ...
Sources: Facebook has signed up 12+ companies, including Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, and Uber, to back the cryptocurrency it plans to unveil next week
Here's Everything You Need to Know Mariella Moon / Engadget : WSJ: Facebook's cryptocurrency finds backing from PayPal and Uber Daniel Palmer / CoinDesk : Facebook Hires Standard Chartered Bank Lobbyi...
Zcash discloses a flaw, first discovered in-house last March and fixed in October, that may have allowed “infinite” counterfeiting
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Profile of Kathryn Haun, a former prosecutor who created US' first federal “digital currency task force” and now an a16z partner investing in crypto startups
Robert Hackett / Fortune : Tweets: @rhhackett and @katie_haun Tweets: Robert Hackett / @rhhackett : I traveled to Mexico City to bring you my latest feature: a profile of @katie_haun for @FortuneMaga...
Researchers demonstrate how Siri's suggestions can be used for phishing by tricking users into thinking they received a message or call from someone they know
expoliting an Apple iMessage vulnerability http://fortune.com/... Robert Hackett / @rhhackett : It is mind-bogglingly easy to rope Apple's Siri into this clever phishing scam. Guinea pig: me. http://f...
A look at Kaspersky Lab's SAS conference, where the company showcases its best research while entertaining competitors and reporters, amid its ongoing crisis
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