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Bitcoin’s Price Edges Back Above $1,800 After Near $100 Gain
The price of bitcoin is up nearly $100 on the day, rising more than 5% to reach a high of $1,814 on the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price...
Amazon upgrades its Fire tablet line, a rare bright spot in the struggling category
Amazon’s continuing its month-long spree of hardware announcements by refreshing its line of low cost slates. The Fire 7 is...
Despite a fickle market for fancy home appliances, new investors get behind Brava Home
Customers are notoriously fickle when it comes to sophisticated kitchen devices. On the one hand, there’s undoubtedly a market for...
DC Blockchain Advocates Seek Distance From Bitcoin Amid Ransomware Wave
Amid a flurry of negative publicity for bitcoin, technology advocates are trying to distance themselves from the digital...
Time to Sell Ripple? Analysis: Litecoin, Stellar Lumens, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dash & Zcash
Litecoin I will go out on a limb here and say it’s time to buy ltc. There is a little bit of room to the Fibonacci vortex support,...
Chile’s Largest Stock Exchange Plans to Implement IBM Blockchain Tech
A major blockchain trial is moving toward implementation in Chile. Revealed today, global tech giant IBM is making public a project...
Hacking Continues but Bitcoin Looses Dominance
The hacking continues today with the WannaCry virus claiming more victims across the globe but another type of hack was reported...
Bragi’s new Dash PRO headphones are true wearable head computers
Bragi has some new headphones coming out, and they have more in common with the original Bragi Dash than with the minimal Headphone...
Ripple’s XRP Token Sets New All-Time Price High
The price of XRP, the token that powers the Ripple Consensus Ledger, continued its upward movement today, building on recent gains...
Apple could release MacBook updates soon
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple is about to release updated MacBook and MacBook Pro models. The company could...
Apple could stop updating the iPad mini
Rumor has it that Apple is about to unveil a brand-new iPad in just a few weeks. But what about the iPad mini? According to a new...
Watts is a huge battery that powers your home
Like Tesla’s Powerwall, Watts is a big battery that can power your home. One Watts cell can support a few small appliances...
Ripple Pledges to Lock Up $14 Billion in XRP Cryptocurrency
Distributed financial technology firm Ripple is on the verge of locking up billions of dollars worth of its native XRP...
Amazon to bring opt-in notifications to Alexa
Amazon is going to be adding notifications to its Alexa service, so that skills can provide you with information as it becomes...
Lost item finder Tile grabs another $25 million in funding
Tile, the company that makes connected devices – which you add to keychains, bags, suitcases, laptops, or keep in your wallet in...
Daily Analysis: Ripple Explodes Again as EUR/USD Surges Past 1.10
Tuesday Market Recap Asset Current Value Daily Change S&P 500 2401 0.10% DAX 12825 0.15% WTI Crude Oil 48.95 0.18% GOLD 1234.00...
Hacking Continues but Bitcoin Losses Dominance
The hacking continues today with the WannaCry virus claiming more victims across the globe but another type of hack was reported...
My Trading Blunders: A Lesson in Overconfidence and Risk Management from 2008
The Background This story happened in January 2008 in what proved to be the early days of the biggest financial crisis of our...
Don’t Click Anything Day | Hacked: Hacking Finance
So this gives a whole new meaning to the term Cyber-Monday. Imagine coming into work only to find that your entire workplace has...
Blockchain Regulation: Is Europe Getting It Right?
Noelle Acheson is a 10-year veteran of company analysis and corporate finance, and a member of CoinDesk's product team. The...
Boost VC Will Now Invest Directly in Crypto ICOs
Boost VC is opening up its portfolio to cryptocurrency startups in a whole new way. One of the first institutional investors to...
Daily Analysis: Oil Surges on OPEC-Deal Extension as Ripple Tests Highs
Monday Market Recap Asset Current Value Daily Change S&P 500 2397 -0.43% DAX 12760 -0.05% WTI Crude Oil 49.55 3.24% GOLD...
Healthy Correction? Bitcoin Prices Retreat to $1,700
Bitcoin prices suffered what analysts largely called a correction today, falling nearly $100 to a low of roughly $1,650, almost 7%...
Meet the German Baron Who Thinks Blockchain Will Beat the Middlemen
The former head of Germany's armed forces is now helping to bring blockchain tech to some of the world's largest financial...
Intel could be about to release a very expensive Core i9 CPU
Computex is right around the corner. While we don’t generally cover PC component updates, this leak about Intel’s plan is...
Norway’s Internet-Only Skandiabanken Launches Coinbase Integration
An internet-only banked based in Norway has integrated with digital currency exchange startup Coinbase. According to local news...
Libratone’s Q Adapt On-Ear headphones pack noise cancellation into a small package
I’ve been playing around with Libratone’s on-ear headphones for a while, and I have to say that they sound quite convincing. I’m...
Buy a Green Card With Bitcoin? US Officials Weigh Impact on EB-5 Program
US immigration services are actively weighing the question of whether bitcoin can be used to pay for obligations tied to a...
ICO Analysis: Storj’s Move to Ethereum – Time to Buy In?
Storj is a decentralized cloud solution which has been in the works for quite a long time. They have gone through multiple...
European Stability Mechanism Floats Possible Blockchain Integration
Will the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) someday run on blockchain? This was a hypothetical recently offered by Kalin Anev...
Singapore gets a gigantic ‘vending machine’ for buying luxury cars
Singapore is a country known worldwide for both a very high cost of living and limited real estate space — that combination makes...
‘Big Four’ Irish Banks Join Blockchain Payments Pilot
Two of Ireland's 'Big Four' banks are taking part in a blockchain payments trial organized by professional services firm Deloitte....
$1,700? Bitcoin’s Price is Up Even as its Tech Progress Stalls
"Honey badger don't give a shit." Sometimes referred to as the 'honey badger of money' (after a famous viral video), bitcoin...
Bank of Japan Fintech Head: Don’t Expect Central Banks to Lead DLT
While central banks around the world are taking an active interest in blockchain and digital ledger technology (DLT), we shouldn't...
Government-Backed Firm to Launch Blockchain IDs in Luxembourg
A major digital identity firm backed by the government of Luxembourg is building a new platform alongside US startup Cambridge...
ICO Analysis: BitCAD | Hacked: Hacking Finance
As it matures, Ethereum becomes increasingly interesting from both a financial and a cryptocurrency/cryptographic perspective. The...
EEG hardware hack uses blink detection and predictive text for hands-free typing
Hardware is hard at the best of times. But software developer Patrick Morris-Suzuki set himself the ambitious challenge of creating...
RoboWaiter wants to make American restaurants great again with robots
RoboWaiter’s crack team, consisting of a developer, designer and a robotics expert, came together at last night’s Disrupt NY...
5 Things to Watch Next Week: NASDAQ, Cryptocurrencies, China, Euro & Trump
Asset Current Value Weekly Change S&P 500 2398 0.88% DAX 12675 1.76% WTI Crude Oil 46.47 -5.75% GOLD 1228.00 -3.21% Bitcoin...
Get ready for a new iPad and a mysterious Siri speaker at WWDC
According to reliable analyst KGI’s Ming-Chi Kuo and 9to5mac, Apple is about to launch not one but two new hardware devices at its...
Crypto Utopia? Defining the Greater Good in a Blockchain World
Cecile Baird and Simon Chan are founding partners of Blockchain For Good (BC4G), a think tank that aims to bring together minds...
Traditional IRAs Are Coming to the World of Bitcoin
New consumer interest in bitcoin is trickling up into traditional retirement savings products and tax-advantaged vehicles like...
Analysis: Money is Still Pouring In – Bitcoin, Litecoin, Stellar Lumens, Augur, Dash and Ethereum
As you all must know by now, I am a trader at heart, not an investor. It’s always been difficult for me to buy-and-hold, because I...
Global Malware Campaign WannaCry is Affecting Bitcoin’s Price
As CCN earlier reported, WannaCry has infected more than 36 000 computers. Users of affected machines are prompted with the...
Amazon made landline phones trendy again
When is the last time you used your landline phone? Chances are that your smartphone is the one and only device you need....
$600k for an Ethereum Name? A Thriving Auction Market is Underway
After a shaky start this spring, a project called the Ethereum Name Service (ENS) appears to be attracting serious capital....
Bitcoin’s Scaling Debate: The View From China’s Miners
Dr Paul Ennis is a research assistant at The Centre for Innovation, Technology & Organization at University College Dublin,...
Trading 101: 10 Essential Investment Rules For Rookies
As you saw in our Trading vs. Investing article, in several ways, value investing is the polar opposite of trading. That said, in...
Regulating Ethereum? EU Parliament Weighs Blockchain’s Big Issues
"When and how should governments intervene?" With that question, MEP Jakob von Weizsäcker kicked off a session of discussion...
The PayPal Moment: When Bitcoin Met Mainstream Payments
Steve Beauregard is serial entrepreneur, co-founder of cryptocurrency payment processing startup GoCoin and chief revenue officer...
Pieter Wuille’s Latest Project: Making Bitcoin Harder to Lose
One of bitcoin's most prolific developers is attempting to help with one of the payment network's longest-running issues. Today,...
US Government Awards $2.25 Million to Blockchain Research Projects
The US government has awarded research contracts to three startups working with blockchain worth a total of about $2.25m. The...
Ethereum Exchange Protocol Race Heats Up With ‘Swap’ Launch
Members of the ethereum development community ConsenSys have unveiled a new peer-to-peer exchange protocol. Dubbed "Swap", the...
UK’s National Health Service Hit in Global Ransomware Wave
Multiple outlets are reporting a wave of ransomware attacks affecting the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) as well as other firms...
Back to Reality? Bitcoin’s Price Drops $100 Amid Meteoric Month
The price of bitcoin saw something it hasn't seen much of lately today – a 24-hour decline to the tune of triple digits. According...
Echodyne’s pocket-sized radar may be the next must-have tech for drones (and drone hunters)
Just because we live in an age of many sensors doesn’t mean we always have the right one for the job. One in particular we’ve been...
Palestinian Government Said to Be Considering a Bitcoin-Like Currency
Palestine's monetary authority is reportedly looking to create its own digital currency. Reuters reported today that, according to...
If you suck at taking photos with your iPhone, Apple has tips for you
Apple just released a dozen of videos on its website (and some of them on YouTube) about the camera on the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7...
Bitcoin’s Price Slides After Surpassing $1,800
Bitcoin prices slid this morning, a day after crossing the $1,800 mark according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI). Markets...
UK Land Registry Plans to Test Blockchain in Digital Push
The UK’s national land registry is looking to test blockchain technology as part of a wide-ranging digitization effort. Last month,...
Bitcoin is Falling | Hacked: Hacking Finance
Sure there are other things going on in the market right now but who cares about them? With the VIX currently hovering at record...
Tokenized Bitcoin Mines? New Startup Giga Watt Unveils ICO Plan
It's been a long road for Dave Carlson. One of the world's more recognizable bitcoin miners, Carlson gained global attention for...
Intel Quietly Demos New Digital Asset Exchange
Intel has unveiled a new proof-of-concept tied to its Sawtooth Lake distributed ledger project. The latest prototype from the tech...
ICOs Are Changing the Way VCs Deal With Startups
Gone is the time when investing in a bitcoin company was enough to make you cool. Now, the really hip kids are into initial coin...
Ex-FBI Chief: Virtual Currencies Hinder Criminal Investigations
The Federal Bureau of Investigation's work is being hampered by the criminal use of virtual currencies, the agency's now-former...
Microsoft announces its own motion controllers for mixed reality
Microsoft doubled down on its commitment to what it called “mixed reality” today at its Build developer conference, revealing...
Florida Bill Seeks to Define Bitcoin as a Monetary Instrument
Florida criminals who use the digital currencies like bitcoin could be charged with money laundering, thanks to a Florida measure passed...
The touchscreen Amazon Echo could launch on Tuesday
Amazon could be about to launch Echo with a touchscreen as soon as tomorrow. The word comes from the WSJ citing sources familiar...
Vermont Law Adds Bitcoin as ‘Permissible Investment’ for MSBs
Vermont has passed a new bill that tweaks state law to account for digital currencies. The bill, signed into law on 4th May...
Stellar Lumens Invade Top 10 CryptoCurrencies with 131 Percent Growth Rate
Stellar Lumens started making waves over the weekend sending shivers down the spines of the elite cryptos on the top 10. Last...
The Nixie Machine II is a mean-looking clock for serious geeks
Nixie (“Numeric Indicator eXperimental No. 1”) tubes were displays used for digital readouts before the advent of the LED. Popular...
CoinDesk Report: Advances in Blockchain Privacy & Confidentiality
If there's one overarching theme in the blockchain technology space, it's the push for greater privacy and confidentiality. Today,...
Time for Indian Digital Rupee, Says Former Head of Lehman Brothers India
The former head of Credit Suisse India and Lehman Brothers India has said that it’s time for a digital Indian rupee, which...
Harman Kardon’s Cortana-powered speaker leaks ahead of launch
Microsoft wants in on the Google Home and Amazon Echo party. Harman Kardon makes this Echo-lookalike is made by Harman Kardon and...
Bonding Experience: Can Kenya Pave a Path for Blockchain Change?
Noelle Acheson is a 10-year veteran of company analysis and corporate finance, and a member of CoinDesk's product team. The...
Australia Commits to Kill Bitcoin Double Tax Despite Delay
The Australian government has reaffirmed its commitment to put an end to the ‘double taxation’ of purchases made by bitcoin and...
Analysis: Monday Morning Massacre for Ethereum
Bitcoin Bitcoin finally succumbed to the selling pressure we have been forecasting for the past few days. All things considered,...
This Self Upgrading Smart Contract Platform Has The Attention of Silicon Valley VC’s
Bitcoin billionaire Tim Draper is looking to enter into the ICO space with a new smart contract platform. The Bitcoin early...
Bitcoin Price Continues Record-Breaking Run to Top $1,500
Bitcoin's price is hitting new highs yet again this week, after passing the $1,500 mark during overnight trading. According to the...
With Blockchain Tallying, Rock N Roll Hall of Fame 2017 Vote Escapes Scrutiny
When controversy struck the 2016 Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame voting process – as nearly one hundred million votes were cast in...
Yours May Have Just Sent The First Real Bitcoin Lightning Payment
Blockchain content startup Yours is working on an alternative version of the Lightning Network – one that actually works on bitcoin...
Vinny Lingham: The Curse Of ‘Satoshi’s Choice’ – A Bitcoin Community Mired In insult And Emotion
Vinny Lingham The bitcoin scaling debate has driven many people in the bitcoin community to assume a cult-like viewpoint, an...
Mauritius: The Tropical Paradise Looking to Become a Blockchain Hub
Known as the home of lush tropical beaches, the world's second-oldest horse racetrack and the now-extinct Dodo bird, the East...
How Ripple is Targeting an Entirely Different Market to Bitcoin
Bitcoin was introduced in 2009 as an alternative network to the global financial system monopolized by centralized...
Are Blockchains Key to the Future of Web Encryption?
Encrypted websites now handle more than half the world's web traffic, but the way the keys for those connections are exchanged and...
Daily Analysis: Stocks Rise on Jobs Friday as the Cryptocurrency-Boom Continues
Friday Market Recap Asset Current Value Daily Change S&P 500 2387 0.10% DAX 12683 0.48% WTI Crude Oil 46.06 -1.05% GOLD 1228.00...
Jack Ma-Backed Tech Firm Invests in Blockchain Startup Symbiont
Blockchain startup Symbiont has raised an undisclosed sum from Chinese software firm Hundsun Technologies. Hundsun, according to...
Dash Partnership With Coinapult Lets Users Trade In 20 Fiat Currencies
Dash has partnered with Coinapult, a wallet that lets users trade the cryptocurrency in 20 fiat currencies on account of its...
Market Boom: The 10 Largest Cryptocurrencies Are All Up Today
They say a rising tide lifts all boats. Even as bitcoin surged above $1,500 late last night – and crossed the $1,600 on several...
Why do Markets Like Bitcoin & Ethereum Violently Correct?
I was asked a question recently about what causes markets to correct so violently. While the answer to this question is obvious to...