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South Korea moves to block Polymarket over gambling concerns

The Korea Media and Communications Commission said Polymarket’s structure and operations amount to illegal gambling despite its noncustodial design and smart contracts.

Bitcoin hits block 961,632 as the controversial BIP-110 soft fork attempt begins

Bitcoin has reached block 961,632, triggering the long-awaited mandatory signaling period for BIP-110, a controversial proposal designed to temporarily curb non-financial data from being...

Polymarket to challenge France’s nationwide website block

Polymarket plans to challenge France’s decision to block its website, arguing the order prevents users from accessing its market probabilities even though trading from...

Crypto lobby group TDC sues Illinois to block digital asset tax

A crypto lobbying organization has sued the state of Illinois over a last-minute tax provision inserted into the state budget last month.TDC (otherwise known...

France orders country’s internet service providers to block Polymarket

France's gambling regulator, the Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ), ordered internet service providers to block Polymarket on July 16, treating the prediction market as...

Binance pushes back on reports that EU regulators tried to block it

The HCMC did not immediately respond to a CoinDesk request for comment regarding Binance’s MiCA licensing process."As the person who led the license application,...

U.S. senators seek to block foreign adversaries from AI technology in new bill

The U.S. Commerce Department would have more authority to shield domestic artificial intelligence technology from the supply chains of foreign adversaries in a bill...

Base Resumes Block Production After Roughly Two-Hour Mainnet Halt

Coinbase-incubated Layer 2 Base stalled block production for about two hours Thursday after an invalid block triggered a consensus fault, before the network recovered....

Bitcoin Mining Pool DMND Mines First Known Stratum V2 Block; GoMining Constructs Its Own Template

Bitcoin mining pool DMND has mined the first known Bitcoin block produced using the Stratum V2 protocol, a technical milestone that shifts...

CFTC Sues New Mexico to Block State Gaming Laws From Reaching Federally Regulated Prediction Markets

The federal derivatives regulator filed suit Thursday in federal court seeking to bar New Mexico from enforcing state gaming laws against CFTC-registered prediction-market exchanges,...

Block kicks off Cash App’s phased stablecoin roll out to its nearly 60 million users

Block’s Cash App has quietly begun rolling out its highly anticipated stablecoin payment feature, a source familiar with the matter told CoinDesk Wednesday. According...

Bitcoin (BTC) mining pools with 75% of hashrate back open standard for block construction

The biggest decentralization move bitcoin mining has seen in years just happened quietly, with seven of the largest pools agreeing to back the same...