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With shifting regulatory regimes worldwide, crypto is on the move to find the best locales to put down roots, get licensed, register or just be. Crypto Hubs 2023, our ranking...

By Jeanhee Kim

Jun 27, 2023 at 11:57 a.m. UTC

Jun 27, 2023

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Features

Berlin: The Center for Decentralized Finance – and Techno Music

When the tech hub of Europe meets a society that prizes financial autonomy, the result is a crypto community that practices the very decentralization it preaches. Case in poin...

By Sandali Handagama

Jun 27, 2023 at 11:30 a.m. UTC

Jun 27, 2023

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Finance

Berlin

German Crypto Exchange Nuri Files for Insolvency

Users are still able to access deposits, according to the exchange.

By Oliver Knight

Aug 9, 2022 at 4:25 p.m. UTC

Aug 9, 2022

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Consensus Magazine

Web 3

‘How Can Information Be Free but Expensive?’: Holly Herndon on Web 3, Art and the Future of IP

Artists Herndon, Mat Dryhurst and Dan Keller discuss where they see Web 3 taking culture, why weirdos thrive in a Web 3 world, and what makes Berlin a nexus for art and techno...

By David Z. Morris

Mar 7, 2022 at 3:08 p.m. UTC

Mar 7, 2022

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Consensus Magazine

Opinion

Why We’re Shutting Our Successful Fundraising Platform

Berlin-based Neufund had a viable security token business built on Ethereum. Regulatory uncertainty is forcing it to close down.

By Zoe Adamovicz

Jan 10, 2022 at 2:41 p.m. UTC

Jan 10, 2022

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Tech

Berlin

Ethereum Core Developers Eye Mid-April for 'Berlin' Hard Fork

The hard fork will facilitate live swapping Ethereum from a proof-of-work to a proof-of-stake blockchain.

By William Foxley

Feb 19, 2021 at 4:42 p.m. UTC

Feb 19, 2021

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Tech

Developers

Ethereum Developers Pencil In January for Eth 1.x 'Berlin' Hard Fork

Ethereum developers are eyeing January for the Berlin hard fork. The backwards-incompatible upgrade of the existing Eth 1.x blockchain was first set for July.

By William Foxley

Oct 30, 2020 at 4:58 p.m. UTC

Oct 30, 2020

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Policy

Berlin

EU-Based Universities Say Blockchain Could Help Meet Paris Agreement Carbon Goals

A new paper from Microsoft and universities in Germany and Denmark sets out how blockchain technology could overcome issues with providing an international carbon credit marke...

By Sebastian Sinclair

Jun 23, 2020 at 3:25 p.m. UTC

Jun 23, 2020

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