Mike Orcutt

The Bitcoin community has expressed broad support for Taproot, a planned privacy-oriented upgrade to the protocol — though a detailed activation plan has yet to be settled upon.

The addition of former CFTC chair Gary Gensler to Joe Biden’s transition team seems like good news for fans of cryptocurrency technology.

There is no reason to dismiss the possibility that state-issued electronic cash can be as private as traditional cash, say privacy advocates.

Aztec has unveiled a new Layer 2 platform that uses zero-knowledge proofs to make Ethereum transactions more efficient — and confidential.

Nebula Genomics will use Oasis Labs' "privacy preserving" smart contract technology to give users full control over their genetic data.

A new report from Chainalysis suggests that cryptocurrency is helping fuel trade between Eastern Asia and Latin America.

Utreexo makes Bitcoin full nodes more efficient by storing a smaller, cryptographically secure representation of the unspent transaction output (UTXO) set.

Chainalysis has launched a free public website called Market Intel that aggregates on-chain data into digestible insights about the crypto markets.

An official from the Boston Fed and the former head of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission offered similar arguments this week as to why the U.S. should be prepared to issue a central bank digital currency if necessary.

Former CFTC chair J. Christopher Giancarlo called on policymakers to develop focused pilot experiments to test a "digital dollar."