Charles Hoskinson says the cryptocurrency industry is about to do to artificial intelligence what it once did to cryptography, and he thinks the spending spree behind today’s AI data centers is heading for a bust. In the September 16 episode of the Deeptech Insights podcast, the Cardano founder argued that blockchains could give AI payment […]
David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO emeritus, has warned that government rules around AI safety and copyright could give authorities unprecedented control over political and social speech. His argument centers on who gets to decide what AI systems can create, know, and discuss. Two Legal Fights, One Argument Schwartz laid out the case in a reply thread […]
Boltz has suspended its Bitcoin swap service after a series of AI-assisted attacks caused losses for the bootstrapped five-person company, with the shutdown announced on August 3 and a new group of veteran Bitcoiners now preparing to take over the project. The episode points to a growing security problem for small open-source crypto services, where […]
Crypto figures are warning that government control over what AI systems can know or discuss could create a dangerous precedent, after Erik Voorhees argued on X on July 28 that states should not decide what forms of intelligence are “safe.” The post landed in the middle of a fresh debate over how much oversight AI […]
The Head of Digital Assets and Innovation for a $2 trillion asset manager “just said to buy ETH,” commented former BlackRock VP and host of Milk Road Daily, John Gillen, on Tuesday. His statement came in response to a lengthy post on X from Franklin’s Sandy Kaul on the use cases for crypto in agentic […]
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has rejected calls for a new AI self-regulatory body, arguing that existing laws already provide enough protection against harmful AI. His remarks came just a day after the crypto exchange disclosed that AI now writes over 95% of its code, more than twice the figure the company reported earlier in the […]
The organization behind the second-largest blockchain network revealed it had employed a coordinated army of AI agents to identify vulnerabilities in Ethereum’s critical infrastructure. The team said one major bug was successfully discovered and patched before it could become a larger problem. But that could be just the start of this major story. AI and […]
Bitcoin (BTC) closed June near its weakest level in almost two years after falling to around $58,000 on June 30, while spot Bitcoin ETFs extended a weeks-long run of heavy outflows. The month, according to a Santiment market report, was less about one single crash and more about capital quietly leaving crypto for AI stocks […]
Digital asset infrastructure company BitGo is reducing its workforce by nearly 15% as it shifts its focus toward stablecoins, trading, security, settlement services, and AI-powered infrastructure. BitGo co-founder and CEO Mike Belshe said the company made the decision because the financial services and crypto sectors have changed significantly, requiring the firm to become more focused […]
AI agents have begun completing complicated tasks, including transacting on their own by paying for services or purchasing computing power, all of which is far superior to AI’s early methods of generating texts, images, or simple code. Ripple wants to have a bigger role, and its latest update, published earlier this week, explains how its […]