By Jamie Redman, A new project called Qtum has been created by the Singapore-based Quantum Foundation that plans to meld the Bitcoin...

By Stan Higgins, A blockchain-friendly member of Congress faced confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill yesterday in his bid to join the...

By Michael del Castillo, Technology originally developed to help NASA communicate with deep space probes now lies at the heart of a new...

By Pete Rizzo, "Maybe it's not as big a problem as we think it is." That sentiment, summed up by bitcoin lending startup founder Shawn...

By Alyssa Hertig, Ethereum smart contracts might one day be used to combat one of the biggest problems with cryptocurrencies at large,...

By Stan Higgins, Exchange operator Nasdaq has released its conclusions about a blockchain e-voting trial it conducted in Estonia last...

By Pete Rizzo, China's 'Big Three' bitcoin exchange businesses are taking new steps to "curb speculation" and "prevent volatility" in the...

By Noelle Acheson, Efforts to apply blockchain in the supply chain took an interesting turn last week. I'm speaking, of course, about a...

By Pete Rizzo, An ethereum wallet for every car? It's no secret cars have become more connected, but a new concept from a trio of big-name...

By Corin Faife, Journalism funding is in crisis. As the industry shifts to digital and its meagre click-based ad revenues, something in...

Michael del Castillo, The wait is almost over for LedgerX, a New York-based bitcoin swaps startup with a board boasting a who's who of...

 By Josh Ye, This Move means all cable and VPN services need prior government approval and comes as Beijing steps up censorship before...

By Kevin Helms, Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT) wants to be listed on NYSE Arca, according to a registration statement filed Friday with...

By Justin Connell, Cornell computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer thinks a bitcoin wallet model called ‘Covenants’ would disincentivize...

By Jonathan Keane, At this week's North American Bitcoin Conference, P2P digital cash startup Abra announced that, starting next month, it...

By Michael del Castillo, One of the lawyers who helped craft the application for what would be the first-ever bitcoin exchange-traded fund...

By Stan Higgins, A planned approach to regulating digital currencies is winning praise from industry participants, public documents...

By Alyssa Hertig, Private and public blockchains, normally siloed both technologically and culturally, could become more intertwined if a...

  Newmax - Gold bulls wagering the bullion rally has more room to run may have history on their side with the arrival of a new U.S....

  BY ANDY GREENBERG, SITES ON THE so-called dark web, or darknet, typically operate under what seems like a privacy paradox: While...

BY ERIC GRIFFITH The Internet doesn't make it easy to go completely anonymous. Here's how you can stay hidden even when emailing. Not long...

  By William Mougayar, Mougayar is the author of "The Business Blockchain" and a board advisor to, and investor in, various...

By Alyssa Hertig, If you've been following ethereum at all, you're likely aware the blockchain project has a lot riding on something...

By Michael del Castillo, Stakeholders at one of the first mainstream financial institutions to build with distributed ledger technology...

By Michael del Castillo, Donald Trump hasn't even formally appointed CFTC commissioner Chris Giancarlo as chairman yet, and he's already...

By Stan Higgins, The Linux Foundation-led Hyperledger initiative has added a new blockchain deployment tool to its growing pool of...

By Nick Lavars What started as crazy DIY project in an Australian backyard six years ago has now blossomed into a cutting-edge aircraft...

                        Founder and CEO of Stratoscale Ariel Maislos By John Gallant Stratoscale is a small company with a very big...

By Michael del Castillo, The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has awarded cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase a formal...

By Michael Franco, Quantum computing could dramatically speed up processing, but it needs to be made more stable first. While quantum...

By Kevin Helms, In a speech on Monday, Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), discussed how the...

By Jamie Redman, Bitcoin is a revolutionary experiment that may disrupt the world’s financial markets and society’s norms in more ways...

By Jamie Redman, The state of bitcoin’s legality in Russia has been shaky over the past couple of years. Reports of bitcoin bans, jail...

By Justin Connell, “I had to change my thought process to understand that bitcoin is no enemy of gold and silver,” says monetary expert...

By Michael del Castillo, Sitting conveniently between the New York Federal Reserve bank’s 500,000 bars of gold and Wall Street you...

By Stan Higgins, While the world waits to see how the People’s Bank of China moves to regulate bitcoin and digital currencies, another...

By Pavel Kravchenko, Kravchenko is a decentralized systems expert, public speaker and the founder of Distributed Lab, a startup dedicated...

by Corin Faife, In the wake of Brexit, the Republic of Ireland could become the go-to European hub for FinTech companies, and among them,...

... If It Didn’t Abandon The Gold Standard By Steve St. Angelo The U.S. will never go back on a gold standard. The notion that a U.S....

By Justin O' Connell, Does this product make sense? Is there a clear explanation of what the network does? Is there a clear use-case for...

By Jamie Redman, Bitcoin has created a vast mining sector within the network’s economy that is growing exponentially. Mining bitcoin has...

By Kevin Helms, The European Parliament has recently released a report entitled ‘The Juncker Commission’s ten priorities: State of play at...

By Jamie Redman, Love them or hate them, there’s a lot of altcoins in the crypto-economy. In fact, in 2017 there are roughly more than 700...

By Kevin Helms, Developers often build and test their applications in temporary server environments called cloud or virtual servers, from...

By Justin O' Connell, Amazon. AT&T. Bank of America. Goldman Sachs. IBM. JPMorgan. Mastercard. R3. Western Union. Verizon. These are...

Charles Bovaird, Markets Weekly is a weekly column analyzing price movements in the global blockchain token markets. This edition looks at...

  By Josh Stark, Stark is a lawyer and head of operations and legal at Ledger Labs, a blockchain consultancy based in Toronto. It's...

By Jens Albers, Albers is a humanitarian filmmaker and the co-founder of chain2change, a blockchain startup seeking to reinvent charitable...

By Stan Higgins, The next eight years could see the blockchain marketplace grow to almost $8bn in value, according to a new research...

By Alyssa Hertig, Ethereum classic just forked again. Though hard forking can be a particularly contentious way of upgrading...

By Julio Gil-Pulgar, Bitcoin is becoming a world currency. Credibility and safe-haven currency functionality are some of the sine qua non...

Israel's Tax Authority Wants to Treat Bitcoin As a Kind of Property By Stan Higgins, Israel's government is set to apply capital gains tax...

By Stan Higgins, Local advertisements for OneCoin and other digital currency investments have drawn the ire of Nigeria’s top securities...

By Alyssa Hertig, There's been plenty to gawk at since Zcash's October launch. Heralded as the world's most anonymous...

By Simon Taylor Taylor is co-founder and director at 11:FS, a FinTech advisory firm, and the former vice president of entrepreneurial...

By Wendy McElroy, The U.S. Federal Reserve will not only issue its own cryptocurrency but will also make sure Americans use it. That’s the...

By Jamie Redman, A recent blog post by developers of the Lightning Network, has announced an alpha release of the protocol’s daemon. The...

By Pete Rizzo, Despite recent reports that suggest China's central bank is casting a critical eye on domestic bitcoin exchanges, local...

By Stan Higgins, New data shows American consumers filed almost no complaints - a total of just seven with the US Consumer Financial...

By Jeffrey K Berns, Berns is a bitcoin user, Coinbase customer and a managing partner at multi-specialty law firm Berns Weiss LLP. On 30th...

By Jamie Redman, News from China is once again spreading through the bitcoin world like wildfire. It appears China’s central bank the...

By Chris Burniske, Burniske is blockchain products lead at ARK Invest, an investment manager focused on disruptive innovation. Adam White...

By Alyssa Hertig, Developers can now test an early version of bitcoin's much-hyped Lightning Network. Released by one of the most...

By  Michael del Castillo, A global platform that connects the vast majority of the world's banks has begun building a blockchain...

By Charles Bovaird, The bitcoin price slide that began this morning has continued, with markets falling to their lowest level since early...

By Michael del Castillo, The founder and CEO of blockchain banking consortium R3CEV says the firm is on the verge of closing the...

By Justin O' Connell, “We are starting to see a lot of smart money enter into the space and stay there” says Ryan Rabaglia, Head Trader...

By Jamie Redman Venezuela has been suffering from significant economic decline and turbulent markets. Many worldwide and residents of the...

By Valery Vavilov Vavilov is the CEO and founder of Bitfury Group, a leading blockchain company that delivers software, hardware, mining...

Blockchain for Mortgages: Compelling, But Premature? By George Yacik, If there's an industry that cries out for the efficiencies and data...

By Alyssa Hertig, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange used data from the blockchain as a "proof of life" during a Reddit ask-me-anything...

By Pete Rizzo, A new investor note published today by analyst Needham & Company projects that a bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF)...

By Michael del Castillo, The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) has selected a series of firms to help integrate...

China is going broke. This statement comes as a shock to those who have heard over-and-over that China is a rising economic superstar and...

European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans addresses the European Parliament during a debate on the commission work...

We’ve all read and heard a lot lately about the “war on cash.” Harvard Professor Kenneth Rogoff even wrote an entire book on the subject...

After the liquidity crises in 1998 and 2008, you might expect that market participants would learn their lessons about derivatives,...

We all learned about “supply and demand” in our first week of economics class. When the price of something rises because of demand, more...

By Jamie Redman, Charlie Shrem, a well-known individual in the cryptocurrency space, recently returned to the industry after a year-long...

By Jamie Redman, Bitcoin trading is a popular market that has been growing in recent years. There are many who obtain bitcoin to hold for...

By Matt Chwierut, Chwierut is research director at Smith + Crown, a research and data group focused on crypto-finance and blockchain...

By Matthias Roebel, Roebel is CEO of Ming Labs, and Ron Quaranta is chairman of the Wall Street Blockchain Alliance. Most people hear the...

By Mike White, In Part One of this series we looked at the “survival of the fittest” and the fact that it leads to competition in a...

By Kevin Helms, Like a pack of predators in the night, bitcoin is creeping up into mainstream use from multiple different angles. From the...

By Kevin Helms, The South American country of Colombia has a crumbling financial system but the bitcoin market has enormous potential....

By Jamie Redman, It’s been quite a rollercoaster in the cryptocurrency markets the past few days. Bitcoin had a significant bull run...

Eric Lombrozo, Lombrozo, is a Bitcoin Core developer and CEO of Ciphrex, a software company developing tools and application development...

By Pete Rizzo, Just hours after it was first revealed that the People's Bank of China (PBoC) had held closed-door meetings with domestic...

  by CADE METZ  THE VALUE OF bitcoin surged past $1,000 this week, the first time it has reached such heights since late 2013. But...

By Justin O' Connell, Futurists imagine a day where robots might own ‘themselves’, and even trade property with other robots. Some believe...