Jay Cassano, Cointelegraph’s editor-in-chief, has accepted the role of CEO at Cointelegraph. Jon Rice, managing editor for Cointelegraph Magazine, will take over as the new editor-in-chief for the platform. Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr remains managing editor. “I’m grateful to Cointelegraph for this opportunity and the trust placed in me by the company,” said Cassano. “It is only possible to accept this role knowing that the editorial team is in excellent hands led by Jon and Kristina.” Cassano took the helm as Cointelegraph’s editor-in-chief in November 2019. An award-winning journalist who first discovered Bitcoin in 2011, he previously worked at Fast Company, …

High gas fees for transactions on the Ethereum blockchain are at record highs amid the decentralized finance hype that has attracted many new users to get on board on the Ethereum network. A group of respected computer scientists involved in the DeFi space got together on Sept. 3 for Cointelegraph China’s DeFi Marathon event shared their thoughts on the high gas fee potential solutions. Although they have different opinions on solutions, they all agreed that Ethereum 2.0 is not the answer to high transaction costs. Sergej Kunz, CEO of decentralized exchange 1inch, Mounir Benchemled, the Founder and CEO of ParaSwap, …

What are you doing Friday afternoon? Cointelegraph is hosting the latest edition of its Cointelegraph Talks series this Friday, August 28, at 3 PM Eastern / 12 PM Pacific on our YouTube channel. We’ll have three entrepreneurs active at the intersection of music and crypto joining us to discuss blockchain’s implications for the music business. Daniel Dewar is founder of media fintech company Paperchain. Jesse Grushack is co-founder of Ujo Music, an Ethereum-based platform for connecting artists with their fans. And Roneil Rumburg co-founded Audius as an artist-centric music streaming platform. All three will be on hand to present their …

The latest findings in Cointelegraph Consulting’s biweekly newsletter suggest that Ether won’t sustain its rally. The 365-day market-value-to-realized-value ratio of Ethereum’s native Ether (ETH) token is currently at a two-year high of 1.88. This indicates that Ether’s long-term holders are presently up 88% on their initial investment, on average. This is the highest average profit for Ether’s long-term holders since February 2018, and there’s a rising incentive to sell and take profits. Over the past 30 days, the collective balance of Ether mining pools has shrunk by more than 80,000 ETH (around $35,000,000 at current prices), suggesting some level of …

Cointelegraph Talks’ third event kicks off at 1 p.m. EST on Tuesday, with the event set to tackle the issues of gender and diversity in the crypto sector. The hour-long discussion will be hosted by Cointelegraph managing editor Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr and include a panel featuring three of crypto’s most-influential women: the World Economic Forum's head of blockchain, digital assets and data policy, Sheila Warren; Stellar Development Foundation's CEO and executive director, Denelle Dixon; and Avandis Consulting's founder and managing director, Anino Emuwa. The event will be streamed free of charge on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, with Eventbrite processing registrations …

We are excited to announce that Cointelegraph has joined the World Economic Forum’s Strategic Intelligence contributor network as a content partner, supplying the latest blockchain and cryptocurrency industry news, market analysis and op-eds into its sophisticated and wide-ranging knowledge base. Launched in 2019, Strategic Intelligence uses a combination of professional and AI-driven analysis to curate insights from think tanks, institutions and media outlets around the globe. Users can more effectively navigate the complex and interconnected global problems that beset the world, such as hunger, poverty, energy, health care, climate, global trade and finance through dynamic and interactive Transformation Maps — …

Selva Ozelli is an international tax attorney and regular contributor to Cointelegraph. She gives her expert opinion on a range of subjects, including how cryptocurrency and blockchain technology can both positively and negatively impact climate change issues. She is also an award-winning artist, and has recently curated the First Digital Climate Change Art Show. This show also features works by some of her fellow artists at Atelier Teymur Rzayev in Turkey. All of the works have been inspired by articles in Ozelli’s climate change series, so it seemed the natural thing for Cointelegraph to do was to review the exhibition. …

Coming every Sunday, Hodler’s Digest will help you track every single important news story that happened this week. The best (and worst) quotes, adoption and regulation highlights, leading coins, predictions and much more — a week on Cointelegraph in one link. Top Stories This Week Bitcoin price charts hint at the most exciting breakout in over a year The halving has been and gone — and so far, it hasn’t been the cataclysmic event that some in crypto circles feared. Some market analysts have now set their sights on what will happen next. Cointelegraph’s Keith Wareing says Bitcoin is on …

YouTube’s censorship rabbit hole is deep, especially when it comes to cryptocurrency topics. Cointelegraph had a full day of programming lined up for a livestream that covered Bitcoin’s third block halving on May 11. The agenda mostly went off without a hitch — fintech luminaries like Tim Draper, Roger Ver, Meltem Demirors and many more shared their time and opinions with Cointelegraph editorial staff over the course of a livestream that lasted just under seven hours. But the stream was blocked and deleted six hours and 42 minutes into a nearly finished program, locking more than 2,000 viewers out of …

Wherever you are in the world right now, as a Cointelegraph reader, you are almost certainly aware that Bitcoin’s third halving event is now less than 8 hours away. It is also highly possible that some level of lockdown, due to the ongoing threat of the coronavirus and COVID-19 pandemic, is seriously curtailing your plans to celebrate the most-anticipated crypto event of 2020. But never fear. Cointelegraph is here to get the party started, with a lockdown-friendly livestream event on our YouTube channel, featuring the biggest names in cryptocurrency today. Join Cointelegraph’s Bitcoin halving party from 10am ET The fun …

BlockShow, an international blockchain event powered by Cointelegraph, along with the well-known San Francisco Blockchain Week, has announced its first-ever online trade show called Unitize. The gathering is going to be held digitally over a week-long period — with new content being delivered to audiences on a near-daily basis, beginning on July 6. Although the world may have ground to a halt because of the coronavirus pandemic, organizers said the community is “still building, trading and investing.” It’s hoped the virtual extravaganza will celebrate the milestones that have been reached in the “lost months” of 2020, even if many of …

The coronavirus pandemic has been changing the global economy, our lifestyle, our ways of interacting with each other and our vision of the future. The Cointelegraph team keeps working from home offices, and all the events we planned to participate in have been canceled. But there is still a lot that is happening in the crypto and blockchain field that needs to be covered, so the work keeps us occupied, and that helps us keep our spirits up. The impact of the quarantines and economic restrictions is felt throughout all of the places where we are based, waking up fears …