LG smashed it out of the park with the G6. The new device (on sale for R14 630 from 7 April) is the brand’s seat at the main table,...

  Google’s Biggest Swipe at Comcast Yet YouTube TV has arrived, and with it the potential to change how television works....

Microsoft couldn’t wait until E3 in June to unveil the Scorpio. So the company shared some details with Digital Foundry. And we now...

Chart via Coinmarketcap.comEven by cryptocurrency's often exaggerated market standards, the price of XRP has been on a tear of...

Technology giant IBM has developed a blockchain trade finance platform alongside a bank and a commodity trading house to...

The ocean-to-table movement is getting a high-tech helping hand. Intel has just revealed a public demo that finds it showcasing how...

Samsung SDS, the IT subsidiary of electronics giant Samsung has launched Nexledger, its blockchain platform for enterprises...

An ethereum prediction market project is moving forward toward its public debut. Following its beta launch last fall, Gnosis, now a...

One of the biggest bitcoin mining pools, ViaBTC, is to open a CNY/BTC exchange in around two months with a USD/BTC exchange...

The future of central banks could be either on an open, permissionless blockchain or a closed, permissioned distributed ledger,...

A Reddit discussion on increasing the bitcoin block size clarified why many are opposed to the bitcoin hard fork. A poster...

The end is near for Pebble. The latest update to Pebble watches should extend their life a bit longer by removing the dependency on...

Even as bitcoin's block size debate rages on, enterprising developers are looking beyond the infighting to focus attention on...

The latest developments in the Cryptowar are what appears to be a developing schism between some Lightning Network developers...

Biometrics may not be the perfect solution for security, but they can be useful — as long as they’re robust and well thought out....

The litecoin network appears to be on the cusp of enacting a technical upgrade that would boost the capacity of its network. At...

Bitfinex recently completed reimbursing customers who had suffered losses in its August 2016 hack and 119,756 bitcoins...

The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia weighed in on the possibilities of blockchain tech in a new speech this...

If you’re new to Bitcoin, you might be wondering what you can spend your cryptocurrency on. The answer might surprise you....

Taser is now Axon. The brand has been a household word for years, but the company felt it was time to leave that identity behind...

Blockchain startup Ubitquity has announced it will overhaul the land registrar offices of two Brazilian municipalities by embedding...

EUR/USD: Short-Term Sell (Update)   EUR/USD, 4-Hour Chart Analysis The pair has been consolidating after the sell-off last week,...

The future of central banks could be either on an open, permissionless blockchain or a closed, permissioned distributed ledger,...

A UK envoy that includes politicians, central bank officials, and prominent FinTech executives are in India to discuss trade...

An investment memorandum published yesterday provides new details about an effort from venture capital firm Blockchain Capital to...

Legislation making bitcoin and virtual currencies legal currency took effect this month in Japan. The country’s Financial...

One of bitcoin's earliest angel investors, Roger Ver has backed a number of startups including BitPay, Purse and ShapeShift, and is...

The Litecoin Foundation, a non-profit organization headed by Litecoin creator Charlie Lee has been successfully incorporated...

The privacy-oriented digital currency zcash became one of the 10 largest digital currencies by market capitalization on 4th April,...

Mainstream energy executives are getting into blockchain. A former boss at utility company Npower joined a blockchain startup...

Blockchain payments startup Wyre has acquired industry startup Remitsy in a cash and equity deal of an undisclosed amount. With the...

David Pogue David Pogue, the founder of Yahoo Tech and a writer for Yahoo Finance, advises viewers that bitcoin is worthy of...

The Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs has adopted a new proposal designed to allow the local blockchain industry to self-regulate....

Bitcoin prices scaled above $1,150 on Tuesday, reaching a high of $1,162 on the Bitstamp Price Index (BPI) to continue a...

A February 2018 trial date has been set for a civil trial pitting the SEC against infamous cryptocurrency entrepreneur Homero...

I woke up today to what appeared to be good news. Joseph Poon, a Lightning Network developer, Stephen Pair from BitPay,...

Finally coming to the pet tech space this summer: an app-controlled cat door that will tell you when your pet has left the...

CoinDesk, the leader in blockchain news, is excited to announce the launch of its first-ever essay series, in partnership with...

While it briefly appeared that Bitcoin Unlimited might actually activate, the chances now seem slim as a relatively new...

A spat of bitcoin ransomware threats last year kept many US government agencies from holding public positions on blockchain. That's...

Estonian blockchain startup Funderbeam has announced a €2 million investment by Japanese investor and incubator Mistletoe...

As 'proxy season' approaches, public companies around the world are preparing to send out countless measures to stock holders who,...

A bullish 2017 for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has helped spur the overall cryptocurrency market cap through a series...

An international consortium of asset managers is working to bring 401k plans, mutual funds and pension funds to the blockchain....

Litecoin has more than doubled in the past five days, rising from around $4.30 to just under $9.50 after months of no...

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...

Bitcoin startup Purse is spearheading work on a new solution it believes could break the network's long-simmering scaling gridlock....

The Arizona governor has signed a bill that officially recognizes blockchain signatures and smart contracts. Just last week,...

Digital currency exchange Bitfinex today announced it has bought back all of the remaining cryptographic tokens it used to...

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...

When we first wrote about Chowbotics, their salad-making robot which was then just a prototype stirred a bit of controversy. The...

A scaling solution originally developed for the bitcoin blockchain may soon get its first trial run on litecoin. The percentage of...

Bitcoin’s price has remained relatively stable, but it has been quite some time since a new bitcoin-based business or project...

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...

An early video by internet entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate Kim Dotcom has revealed a brief peek at his Bitcache platform...

Bitcoin startup Blockstream has unveiled new technology for shielding data on a blockchain. Expanding on an old technique to hide...

According to a report, the Indian government could declare its position on the legality of bitcoin, the world’s most...

This excerpt is from Jamie Lendino’s Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, an amazing book that details with an...

Noelle Acheson is a 10-year veteran of company analysis, corporate finance and fund management, and a member of CoinDesk's product...

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 have surged today, rising over 3% overall since the start of trading and at one stage topping $1,141. At the time of...

The past two weeks have been some of the most intense in bitcoin’s history as Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Unlimited went head to...

When we last left Misen they were crowdfunding a very nice, very usable chef’s knife. They completed their crowdfunding goal and...

Litecoin Litecoin has traded within a narrow range since it’s 100% rally of a few days ago. Regular readers will note that in...

A group of Canadian bitcoin nodes has formally rejected the Bitcoin Unlimited (BU) hard fork proposal. The Statement on Hard...

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%...

After years of grabbing global headlines, it seems bitcoin is making inroads with employees at exchanges and solutions providers in...

Ripple has introduced new features to improve its Ripple Consensus Ledger (RCL) and Interledger Protocol (ILP) to enhance...

Researchers might seem like an unlikely group to probe the private blockchain sphere, where the major players are a mix of banks...

Chain Inc., a provider of blockchain networks, has integrated a hardware security module from Thales, a provider of data...

Two law firms in Singapore and Malaysia have launched fintech practices as the growth of the financial technology sector...

From digital currencies, healthcare, diamonds, land ownership, education, voting, finance, and insurance, the growth of the...

As Britain puts into motion its exit plan from the EU, the European Commission could threaten London’s fintech position by...

SingularDTV, a blockchain entertainment studio and rights management platform building a decentralized entertainment industry...

China’s largest gold deposit in history was discovered in the province of Shandong earlier this week. Local publications...

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...

What some said was impossible has been achieved. In a series of non-public meetings where, this time, independent journalists...

Bitcoin turned heads this month when its value exceeded the price of gold, but just weeks later, the digital asset has fallen off...

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...

While distributed ledgers were once considered a way for financial firms to upgrade back-office processes, some appear to be...

The RegTech Association has officially launched in Australia and is aiming to aid the regulation technology sector just like...

Japan is set to begin recognizing bitcoin as a legal method of payment starting tomorrow. The country's legislature passed a law,...

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ (BTMU), the banking arm of the Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) has joined Ripple in...

A bill in Arizona that recognizes blockchain signatures and smart contracts has officially become state law. The measure was first...

Ripple has roared to a 26-month high, gaining over $400 million in market capitalization in a 24-hour trading period leading...

A federal lawsuit filed by investors of a US-based bitcoin mining operation is moving ahead after months of little movement. In...

LITECOIN As forecasted on these pages several times last week, Litecoin was the star performer for currency traders this...

While the Mars rovers are assiduously searching the red planet for water over the next decade, there are whole moons full of the...

Media sources in India reported this week that the government had deemed bitcoin illegal, causing a stir that appeared to be...

A U.S. District Court judge has ruled that investors in a bitcoin-farming operation can continue with their federal suit,...