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CoinDesk Launches ‘Bitcoin Milestones’ Series With Author Brian Patrick Eha
CoinDesk, the leader in blockchain news, is excited to announce the launch of its first-ever essay series, in partnership with...
1Hash Bitcoin Pool Comes out against Bitcoin Unlimited
While it briefly appeared that Bitcoin Unlimited might actually activate, the chances now seem slim as a relatively new...
Why the US Department of Health Just Couldn’t Ignore Blockchain
A spat of bitcoin ransomware threats last year kept many US government agencies from holding public positions on blockchain. That's...
Estonian Blockchain ‘Stock Exchange’ Funderbeam to Use €2M Investment toward Asian Expansion
Estonian blockchain startup Funderbeam has announced a €2 million investment by Japanese investor and incubator Mistletoe...
Broadridge is Building a Global Blockchain for Stockholder Voting
As 'proxy season' approaches, public companies around the world are preparing to send out countless measures to stock holders who,...
Cryptocurrency Market Cap Soars to All-Time High Near $28 Billion
A bullish 2017 for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has helped spur the overall cryptocurrency market cap through a series...
Managed Fund Titans Eye 2018 for Blockchain MVP Launch
An international consortium of asset managers is working to bring 401k plans, mutual funds and pension funds to the blockchain....
Litecoin Price Doubles, Thanks to SegWit?
Litecoin has more than doubled in the past five days, rising from around $4.30 to just under $9.50 after months of no...
The Sonos Playbase is a home theater in a slab
Sonos makes some of the best whole-home wireless audio gear I’ve used, bar none. I’ve tried Bluetooth and Zigbee models, wired and...
Purse Proposal Touts Extension Blocks as Bitcoin Scaling Solution
Bitcoin startup Purse is spearheading work on a new solution it believes could break the network's long-simmering scaling gridlock....
Official: Arizona Law Recognizes Blockchain Signatures and Smart Contracts
The Arizona governor has signed a bill that officially recognizes blockchain signatures and smart contracts. Just last week,...
Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Buys Back All Remaining ‘Hack Credit’ Tokens
Digital currency exchange Bitfinex today announced it has bought back all of the remaining cryptographic tokens it used to...
Litecoin has Given a Buy Signal | Hacked.com
So many altcoins have gone vertical in the past couple of weeks that I have had to adjust my scales in almost all cases, to...
Apple Fellow Rich Page on ‘stealing jobs’ and Chowbotics’ salad-making robots
When we first wrote about Chowbotics, their salad-making robot which was then just a prototype stirred a bit of controversy. The...
Litecoin Sees Spike in Support for Scaling Solution SegWit
A scaling solution originally developed for the bitcoin blockchain may soon get its first trial run on litecoin. The percentage of...
Op-Ed: Are Businesses Ditching Bitcoin for Ethereum?
Bitcoin’s price has remained relatively stable, but it has been quite some time since a new bitcoin-based business or project...
Bitmain Subsidiary Opens New Bitcoin Mining Pool to Public
An R&D division of mining giant Bitmain has launched a new pool. Having mined its first block as part of a closed beta three...
Kim Dotcom’s Bitcache Preview Reveals Built-in Bitcoin Payments
An early video by internet entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate Kim Dotcom has revealed a brief peek at his Bitcache platform...
‘Confidential Assets’: Blockstream Reveals New Bitcoin Privacy Tech
Bitcoin startup Blockstream has unveiled new technology for shielding data on a blockchain. Expanding on an old technique to hide...
Bitcoin in India: Legal or Illegal? Govt Could Declare Verdict in April
According to a report, the Indian government could declare its position on the legality of bitcoin, the world’s most...
A look back on the golden age of Atari gaming
This excerpt is from Jamie Lendino’s Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, an amazing book that details with an...
Blockchain’s Trust Paradox – CoinDesk
Noelle Acheson is a 10-year veteran of company analysis, corporate finance and fund management, and a member of CoinDesk's product...
Bitcoin Price Surges to $1,130 in Positive April Start
Bitcoin price has made marked gains in the early days of April as prices reach a high of $1,133 on a global average, gaining...
Bitcoin Prices Up Over 3% Today, Top $1,140
Bitcoin prices have surged today, rising over 3% overall since the start of trading and at one stage topping $1,141. At the time of...
Will a Bitcoin Hard Fork Create Two Coins? – Bitcoin Unlimited Explained | Hacked.com
The past two weeks have been some of the most intense in bitcoin’s history as Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Unlimited went head to...
Misen, the Internet-only knife brand, gets to paring
When we last left Misen they were crowdfunding a very nice, very usable chef’s knife. They completed their crowdfunding goal and...
Litecoin is Poised Like a Tight Spring & What about Ripple? | Hacked.com
Litecoin Litecoin has traded within a narrow range since it’s 100% rally of a few days ago. Regular readers will note that in...
Canadian Bitcoin Nodes Reject Bitcoin Unlimited, Call It An Altcoin
A group of Canadian bitcoin nodes has formally rejected the Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) hard fork proposal. The Statement on Hard...
Weekly Analysis: Stocks at Decision Point, Altcoins Still on Fire | Hacked.com
Asset Current Value Weekly Change S&P 500 2363 0.80% DAX 12312 2.06% WTI Crude Oil 50.81 5.92% GOLD 1247.50 -0.24%...
All Business? Bitcoin is Becoming a Hobby for Exchange Employees
After years of grabbing global headlines, it seems bitcoin is making inroads with employees at exchanges and solutions providers in...
Matching the World’s Largest Payments Network: Ripple Claims Transaction Throughput at Visa Levels
Ripple has introduced new features to improve its Ripple Consensus Ledger (RCL) and Interledger Protocol (ILP) to enhance...
How Cornell Researchers Are Quietly Reinventing Private Blockchains
Researchers might seem like an unlikely group to probe the private blockchain sphere, where the major players are a mix of banks...
Chain Looks to Secure Blockchain Transactions With Thales’ Hardware
Chain Inc., a provider of blockchain networks, has integrated a hardware security module from Thales, a provider of data...
Law Firms in Singapore and Malaysia Launch FinTech Practice
Two law firms in Singapore and Malaysia have launched fintech practices as the growth of the financial technology sector...
Companies Adopt Blockchain to Enhance Security in Asia
From digital currencies, healthcare, diamonds, land ownership, education, voting, finance, and insurance, the growth of the...
European Commission Considers Passporting Rights for FinTech Services
As Britain puts into motion its exit plan from the EU, the European Commission could threaten London’s fintech position by...
Blockchain Entertainment Studio Ropes in Hollywood Talent as Advisor
SingularDTV, a blockchain entertainment studio and rights management platform building a decentralized entertainment industry...
Gold Supply Rises With Large Mine Discovery, Bitcoin is Better Safe Haven Asset
China’s largest gold deposit in history was discovered in the province of Shandong earlier this week. Local publications...
Bitcoin vs Gold: Which is a Better Long-Term Bet?
Imagine that you have $100,000 at your disposal. You must spend all of it on either bitcoin or gold – no mixing and matching – and...
Bitcoin Reaches a Grand Compromise on the Scalability Debate
What some said was impossible has been achieved. In a series of non-public meetings where, this time, independent journalists...
Charts: Bitcoin’s Golden Price Streak Comes to a Close
Bitcoin turned heads this month when its value exceeded the price of gold, but just weeks later, the digital asset has fallen off...
The Week in Review: Cryptocurrencies Shine as Global Stocks Rise | Hacked
Weekly Recap Asset Current Value Weekly Change S&P 500 2363 0.80% DAX 12312 2.06% WTI Crude Oil 50.81 5.92% GOLD 1247.50...
Market Enabler? Exchanges See Blockchain as New Revenue Play
While distributed ledgers were once considered a way for financial firms to upgrade back-office processes, some appear to be...
Catching FinTech Winds, RegTech Association Launches in Australia
The RegTech Association has officially launched in Australia and is aiming to aid the regulation technology sector just like...
Japan’s Bitcoin Law Goes Into Effect Tomorrow
Japan is set to begin recognizing bitcoin as a legal method of payment starting tomorrow. The country's legislature passed a law,...
Japan’s Biggest Bank Partners Ripple, Plans Global Blockchain Money Transfers in 2018
The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU), the banking arm of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has joined Ripple in...
Arizona Governor Signs Blockchain Bill Into Law
A bill in Arizona that recognizes blockchain signatures and smart contracts has officially become state law. The measure was first...
Ripple Skyrockets to 2-Year High, Doubles Market Cap to $800 Million
Ripple has roared to a 26-month high, gaining over $400 million in market capitalization in a 24-hour trading period leading...
Bitcoin Mining Fraud Lawsuit Moves Forward in New Jersey
A federal lawsuit filed by investors of a US-based bitcoin mining operation is moving ahead after months of little movement. In...
Weekly Analysis of Cryptocurrencies – CryptoCoinsNews
LITECOIN As forecasted on these pages several times last week, Litecoin was the star performer for currency traders this...
NASA tests robotic tools to crack the surface of icy moons
While the Mars rovers are assiduously searching the red planet for water over the next decade, there are whole moons full of the...
Despite Reports, India’s Bitcoin Policy Hasn’t Changed
Media sources in India reported this week that the government had deemed bitcoin illegal, causing a stir that appeared to be...
Judge Finds Federal Jurisdiction in Bitcoin Investment Lawsuit
A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that investors in a bitcoin-farming operation can continue with their federal suit,...
Apple releases new colorful Apple Watch ad
Apple just released a new video ad on its YouTube channel for the Apple Watch Series 2. There are two interesting things about this...
Ripple Prices Rise to Hit 2-Year High
The price of XRP, the cryptocurrency underlying the Ripple network, hit a two-year high earlier today. XRP rose to as much as...
UK Government ‘Carefully Considering’ Expansion of Blockchain Benefits Trial
The U.K. government is currently considering whether to extend a benefits payment trial that’s utilizing the blockchain by...
MUFG, Standard Chartered Plan Blockchain Payments Launch for 2018
A group of international banks is reportedly planning the launch of cross-border payment services backed by blockchain. According...
Bahrain Signs FinTech Pact with Singapore Amid Plan for ‘Country Level’ Blockchain Adoption
Bahrain and Singapore are cementing their FinTech partnership with the Middle-Eastern monarchy looking to establish a FinTech...
Private Blockchains for Bitcoin Maximalists
Martin Hagelstrom is a bitcoin enthusiast, project executive and consultant working on IT projects at IBM. In this opinion piece,...
Industry Petition Urges Indian Govt to Announce Bitcoin is Legal
A new petition raised by the Indian bitcoin industry is urging influential politicians and lawmakers to deem bitcoin and...
A UK entrepreneur takes flight by attaching miniature jet engines to his limbs
A YouTube collection of grainy video clips highlights the progress Gravity founder Richard Browning has made toward his outlandish...
Chain and Thales Interlock for Blockchain Key Security Solution
French cyber-defense and aerospace firm Thales has launched a new integration with blockchain startup Chain aimed to boost...
Blockchain Platform MultiChain Enters Beta with 15 New Partners
MultiChain, the private blockchain platform launched by Coin Sciences Ltd, has entered beta phase with the release of MultiChain...
IBM Develops Blockchain Platform to Fight Carbon Emissions in China
IBM has laid claim to the world’s first blockchain ‘green asset management platform’ in China to decrease emissions while...
Bitcoin Hardware Wallet Startup Ledger Raises $7 Million
Bitcoin hardware startup Ledger has raised $7m in a new Series A funding round. The round was led by MAIF Avenir, an arm of French...
Bitcoin Entrepreneur Quizzed by UK Police Over Fighting ISIS in Syria
A 29-year-old man Bitcoin developer has said that he has been under police investigation for the last year after returning...
Major Banks, Startups Advance Blockchain Syndicated Loan Pilot
A group of banks and financial firms led by Credit Suisse recently completed the second phase of a blockchain...
Hong Kong Central Bank Unveils Blockchain PoC for Trade Finance
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has today unveiled its proof-of-concept (PoC) blockchain platform for trade finance...
Litecoin Prices Jump 70% as Market Cap Adds Over $100 Million
Litecoin prices surged nearly 70% today, ending months of stagnant market activity. Prices for the alternative cryptocurrency rose...
Arizona’s Blockchain Bill Passes Senate Leading the Way to Smart Contracts
The Senate of the state of Arizona has passed a bill relating to the blockchain that would give smart contracts and...
For those about to tune, we salute you
The first Roadie tuner was a miracle in a plastic case. This little device connected to your phone and then turned the...
Verizon, JetBlue Back Blockchain Firm Filament’s $15 Million Funding
Blockchain startup Filament has closed a new $15m funding round. The round was led by Verizon Ventures, the venture arm...
Litecoin Soars to 20-Month High, Price Spikes Nearly 100%
Litecoin prices have shot up today, March 30th, nearly doubling in value over a 24-hour trading period. Data from Bitfinex...
Hong Kong’s Central Bank Partners on DLT Trade Finance Test
A group of six banks and a global auditing firm have completed a new blockchain trade finance test focused on the Hong Kong market....
Spanish Banking Giant BBVA Now a Member of Hyperledger Blockchain Project & Linux Foundation
Spanish multinational banking group BBVA becomes the latest financial institution to join the Hyperledger Project, a...
Snap judgement: 8 thoughts about the Samsung Galaxy S8
1. This is a massive play Throughout the livestream presentation, which I watched with a small group of journalists at the local...
Sweden Moves to Next Stage With Blockchain Land Registry
A project set up last year by Sweden’s land registry authority, the Lantmäteriet, to trial blockchain technology for recording...
Busted Indian Students Used Bitcoin for Smuggling $100,000 of LSD from the US
Indian police in the city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay) have seized LSD worth over $100,000 in a shipment to India from the...
The Matrix Voice is an Alexa for your Raspberry Pi
Matrix Labs just completed a successful crowdfunding campaign for what amounts to an AI voice recognition system for the Raspberry...
Survey: Europe’s Online Shoppers Are Wary of Digital Currencies
European consumers are largely shunning digital currencies when making e-commerce payments, according to a recent survey...
Garmin announces a new watch just for runners and those who think they are runners
Garmin is back again with the Forerunner 935, a runner-specific sport watch with GPS, heart rate, and compatibility with the Garmin...
Bitcoin Traders Disagree on Where the Market is Headed
The path forward for bitcoin prices isn't clear, market analysts say. While some described the market to CoinDesk as bearish...
Facebook opens up 360-degree live streaming to all
Facebook just made live streaming 360-degree video relatively easy, provided you have the equipment to capture the content. Users...
Emirates NBD Enlists UAE Central Bank in Blockchain Check Trial
One of the Middle East's largest banking groups is partnering with the central bank of the United Arab Emirates on a blockchain...
Android co-founder’s new smartphone confirmed to run Android
The new smartphone from Andy Rubin, which will be the debut product of his new company Essential, will indeed run Android for its...
Panasonic Among New Contributors to Hyperledger’s Iroha Project
Five new companies are contributing to Iroha, one of several projects attached to the Hyperledger blockchain initiative. Among the...
Xbox One gets Beam streaming, a new guide and more starting today
Xbox One is getting an update starting today, echoing some of the major changes coming to Windows in its forthcoming Creators...
Inside IC3: How Cornell is Advancing the Science of Bitcoin
We’re squeezed into a small room filled with tall black server racks. Fans interweave with computers, sputtering cold air. The...
Economic Forum Highlights China’s Rise in Blockchain R&D
Blockchain technology will likely boost financial inclusion, but there's still some way to go before a major impact is felt,...
Bitcoin Price Spikes Spurred by Chinese Capital Curbs: Australian Financial Analyst
A prominent equities analyst at an Australian private brokerage sees China’s capital controls as a major factor behind the...