CoinDesk

Zcash Floats Dynamic Fee Plan to Ensure Users Won’t Be Priced Out

A key Zcash developer has published the first detailed blueprint for a dynamic fee market, opening a community discussion about how the decade-old network should price transactions as ZEC’s price, ...
CoinDesk

Coinbase Taps Chainlink CCIP as Sole Bridge for $7B in Wrapped Tokens Across Chains

Coinbase has picked Chainlink’s Cross-Chain Interoperability Protocol (CCIP) as the exclusive bridge for all Coinbase Wrapped Assets, linking them to the same Chainlink oracle networks that feed price ...
New York Post

‘Dynamic pricing’ used to raise costs of everything from food and Uber rides to museum visits

If you feel like you’re being nickel-and-dimed everywhere you shop – you probably are. Instacart has been using a shady AI algorithm that charges different prices to different customers on the same ...
The New Yorker

The Dark Side of Congo’s Cobalt Rush

In June, 2014, a man began digging into the soft red earth in the back yard of his house, on the outskirts of Kolwezi, a city in the southern Democratic Republic of the Congo. As the man later told ...