This interview has been edited and condensed. ‘Jimmy Wales is good at failure.’ Who would think that? Apparently, Jimmy would, as this is the message he was spreading during his speech at the biggest crypto conference in Europe, BlockShow, calling failure ‘an essential part of innovation.’ But the importance of not giving up is also clear from his speech, as the co-founder of multilingual online encyclopedia shared that Wikipedia was not his first project, but the most successful one so far. Speaking in Berlin, the headliner of the event, announced his new project that everybody was waiting (I mean, not …

The headline of this article has been updated to avoid misinterpretation. Cointelegraph had a chance to talk to Eric Ly, Chinese-American investor and businessman and co-founder of LinkedIn, where for years he also served as founding CTO. In the beginning of his career Eric held technical positions at prominent companies such as Steve Job’s NeXT, IBM or General Magic, before co-founding LinkedIn with his Stanford classmate and other colleagues in 2002. There, among other things, Eric was responsible for developing software integrations with software such as web browsers and Microsoft Outlook. Eric left LinkedIn in 2006 to develop his own …

Cointelegraph talked to Francesco Firano, CEO of BitGrail, the Italian exchange apparently hit by a cyber attack that would have caused the loss of a considerable amount of Nano tokens (formerly known as Raiblocks). BitGrail froze trading on Thursday, Feb. 8. The exchange stated that 17 mln Nano had been stolen in the hack, an amount worth about $187 mln at the time the losses were discovered. The statements of the developers of Nano on the matter, mixed with the understandable anger of users affected by the theft and the dissemination of confusing information, have generated a climate of strong …

Today we got a chance to chat with Aeron Buchanan, a developer who is part of the team working on the Ethereum project. Cointelegraph has been closely following Ethereum for the past year and with their recent developments and Ether crowdsale, we thought it would be the perfect time to get the inside scoop on the results of their community-driven funding campaign as well as their progress in building dedicated development hubs in Berlin and Amsterdam. Additionally, with over 10 million dollars in secured funding, their ambitious expansion plans and an incalculable amount of hype and promise around the project, …