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Buterin Raps Cryptocommunity’s Incivility in Bitcoin Block Size Debate
Are we being polite enough in our debates? Vitalik Buterin, the founder of Ethereum, thinks not. He recently started a...
Why Flybrix skipped crowdfunding to launch its LEGO drone kits
Flybrix first dreamed up a drone that kids could build with LEGO bricks in 2015. At the time, co-founders Amir Hirsch, Robb Walters...
European Central Bank: Still Too Early for DLT in Eurozone
The European Union's central bank today once again shot down the idea that it might use distributed ledger tech as part of its...
Bitcoin Core Supporters Push for UASF
The never ending bitcoin debate has now seemingly moved on to new never ending proposals that try to provide a solution to...
High-speed camera rig captures 3D images of birds’ wings in flight
You don’t have to be an ornithologist to know that birds are pretty good at flying. But while we know how they do it in general,...
Intesa Sanpaolo Trials Data Recordkeeping on the Bitcoin Blockchain
Italian banking conglomerate Banca Intesa Sanpaolo has tested a tool built on the bitcoin blockchain as part of a bid to validate...
Bitcoin Isn’t Money, Rules US Judge in Money Laundering Case
Yet another U.S. judge has ruled that bitcoin isn’t money. U.S. Magistrate Judge Hugh B. Scott ruled in a money laundering...
Apple could be designing its own power management chip as well
Apple already has planned to design its own graphics chip for the iPhone, but the company doesn’t plan to stop there. According to...
Two Months And Counting: Exchange Withdrawals Still Blocked in China
One month after China's bitcoin exchanges announced they had upgraded their services in response to requests from regulators,...
Ripple at All Time High as New Features Go Live
Ripple, the maker of the Ripple Consensus Ledger, has seen the value of its native digital token, XRP, increase dramatically...
Should I Do It? 30,000 Bitcoins and One Big Auction
Adam Draper is the founder and managing director of San Mateo-based venture capital firm Boost VC, one of bitcoin and blockchain's...
Qatar Commercial Bank Completes International Money Transfer Blockchain Pilot
Commercial Bank, a private Qatari bank has revealed the successful completion of an initial blockchain pilot enabling...
IBM Ramps Up China Blockchain Work With Supply Chain Trial
IBM advanced its status as a blockchain leader Tuesday with the launch of a supply chain platform designed to streamline flows...
Litecoin Price Falls: Segwit Down, UASF on the Table
Litecoin fell by some 20% earlier today after segwit’s network share decreased to around 63% following rumors that Antpool...
UK Finance Watchdog: No Need to Rewrite Rules for DLT
A top UK finance watchdog said today that it has no immediate plans to alter its regulatory approach in light of blockchain...
Has Reddit Banned Links to LocalBitcoins?
A recent post on the Bitcoin subreddit has caused speculation that Reddit has banned links to LocalBitcoins.com, one of the...
Qatar’s Commercial Bank Unveils Blockchain Remittance Pilot
The Commercial Bank of Qatar, the country's largest private bank, has successfully completed a blockchain pilot in conjunction with...
Britain’s Regulator Opens Potentially Historical Consultation on Blockchain Technology
Christopher Woolard, Executive Director of Strategy and Competition at the FCA, welcomed innovation in an opening speech at...
LeEco will not acquire TV maker Vizio as planned
Chinese electronics giant LeEco will not acquire U.S.-based TV maker Vizio as announced, the two companies said today. The deal has...
Fidelity Joins IC3 Blockchain Research Initiative
Fidelity has moved to back a prominent research effort centered on cryptocurrencies and blockchain. As reported by...
Bitcoin Price to Hit $500,000 by 2030, Says Snapchat’s First Investor
Hold on, investors – you haven’t seen anything yet. According to Peter Smith, Blockchain CEO/co-founder, and Jeremy Liew,...
Greg Hunter Interviews Clif High On Fed Chaos – Fed Will Crash
By Greg Hunter Internet Data mining expert Clif High’s latest report says, ““The emotions at the moment are projecting a crash of...
Porsche Seeks Blockchain Companies for Startup Competition
German automaker Porsche is looking to explore blockchain technology. According to a company release, Porsche quietly unveiled a...
Bitcoin Users Should Activate Segwit If Miners Won’t
Samourai, the development team that consists of privacy activists building an open source bitcoin wallet platform called...
Why A Quiet Blockchain Consortium Could Soon Make Noise
Noelle Acheson is a 10-year veteran of company analysis, corporate finance and fund management, and a member of CoinDesk's product...
Rogue Indian Drug Agent Caught Stealing Bitcoins
An investigator from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of India has been accused of stealing bitcoins frozen from a 2015...
Chandler Guo Fails to Raise Money For Bitcoin Unlimited Pool, Segwit Support Evident
Major Chinese miner, bitcoin and Ethereum Classic investor Chandler Guo failed to meet the target of his US$32 million...
Coming Week: Stocks Mostly Bullish, Cryptocurrencies Going for New Records?
Asset Current Value Weekly Change S&P 500 2355 -0.30% DAX 12225 -0.71% WTI Crude Oil 52.23 2.78% GOLD 1257.50 0.81% Bitcoin...
As Bitcoin Fees Rise, OpenBazaar Looks at Altcoin Payments
OpenBazaar, an open-source market that allows buyers and sellers of goods to directly create shops and sell goods without...
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Bitcoin Hard Fork Isn’t Inevitable, Say Jeff Garzik and Charlie Lee
Will bitcoin really split in two? Can it be stopped? The questions, which have been on the minds of many as the block size...
How Deloitte’s Bitcoin Bistro Was Built
While Deloitte has long been an advisor on blockchain and cryptocurrencies, it took a step toward to practicing what it preaches...
Everex Explores Ethereum Based Global Remittances
Blockchain startup Everex, a blockchain remittance company, looks to leverage Ethereum to transform the remittance industry....
The Dark Days of Dogecoin: How Scammers and Bandits Brought Down Crypto’s Friendliest Currency
It was a bustling, summer day in San Francisco just like any other for Jackson Palmer, a marketing manager at Adobe that a year...
Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Sues Wells Fargo Over Embargoed Wire Transfers
A lawsuit filed Wednesday in Northern District of California federal court, San Francisco division could turn out to hold...
Analysis of Ethereum, Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash, Litecoin & Ripple
Ethereum Ethereum continues to drift downwards as it bounces off 2nd arc support. It still paints a (relatively) bullish long-term...
Bitcoin Startups BitPesa and Bitbond Deliver P2P Loans for African Businesses
Bitcoin startups BitPesa and Bitbond, based in Africa and Germany respectively, have announced a new initiative to bring...
Extension Block Proposal Stumbles In Attempt to End Bitcoin Block Size Debate
The block size debate has gotten to a point that some bitcoin observers think it could doom bitcoin. Bitcoin has defied all...
Here Comes the Pickaxe Race: Bitcoin Mining Jumps to GPU
An early bitcoin developer and entrepreneur, Alex Waters served as COO and CIO for bitcoin exchange startup BitInstant. Waters...
Study: 43% of Bitcoin Transactions Aren’t Processed after First Hour
A new study by the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies reveals that “43% of the transactions are still not included in the...
The Hidden History of Bitcoin Unlimited
Paul Elliot-Ennis is a lecturer and assistant professor in management information systems in the College of Business, University...
Blockchain Tech Brings Promise for Forensic Applications
A report has come out saying that the blockchain presents great promise for the forensic community, which could cut down on...
Ethereum’s Difficulty Bomb: All Smoke, No Fire?
Sometime in the future (we can't be certain when), ethereum will likely switch from its proof-of-work consensus algorithm to...
Bitcoin Core Runs “Trolling Campaigns”, Says Lightning Network Developer
Joseph Poon, Lightning Network developer, has publicly stated today that Bitcoin Core has “a secret channel where they...
Electronics Retailer Bic Camera Begins Accepting Bitcoin
Bitcoin payment processor bitFlyer is partnering with a Japanese electronics retailer to test a new point-of-sale system (POS) that...
Time to watch Zcash | Hacked: Hacking Finance
I must confess to being a bit confused by the fact there seems to be more than one coin with the moniker “Z”. In the event that I...
Music Groups Band Together to Build Blockchain Rights Solution
Three societies tasked with protecting the intellectual property rights of musicians, writers and other content creators have...
Ethereum-Based Blockchain Solution for Digital Advertising to Fight Fraud
An LA-based company is using the blockchain for digital advertising to solve the issue of fraud, which can be seen through...
Ford built a baby bed that feels like it’s driving around the neighborhood
Some babies won’t sleep unless they get a nighttime cruise around the neighborhood, as many parents (my own included) can attest....
An Open Letter to Decentralized Protocols Looking for Growth
Jeremy Epstein is the CEO of Never Stop Marketing, a strategic marketing and consulting firm that focuses exclusively on helping...
Israeli Bomb Hoax Teen Made Millions in Bitcoin on the Dark Web
An Israeli teenager, alleged to have made over 100 bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and day schools in the...
A new guitar is 30% lighter thanks to multiple weird tricks
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could make a lighter guitar, they didn’t stop to think if they should....
Did One Tweet Make Litecoin’s Price Drop 20%?
Litecoin prices fell roughly 20% in less than 24 hours, and the culprit is apparently a single tweet. The digital currency declined...
BitMEX Launches a Segwit and Bigger Bitcoin Blocks Prediction Market
BitMEX, a digital currencies exchange that offers 100x futures on bitcoin, ethereum and other currencies, today announced...
Blockchain Low Among Corporate Investment Priorities, PwC Finds
'Big Four' consulting firm and accountancy PwC has published a detailed report on the current state of blockchain at large...
Litecoin Price Falls after Segwit Confusion; Charlie Lee Explains Activation
Litecoin has tripled in the past week, rising from $4 to above $12. The main, if not sole reason, appears to be its expected...
Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 said to move to Intel Kaby Lake processors
Microsoft’s hardware lineup, including Surface Book and Surface Pro devices, are due for a refresh, but we still haven’t heard that...
The ‘Big Block’ Bitcoin Movement is Embracing Bcoin
Over the course of bitcoin's two-year scaling debate, a few major alternatives have grown to challenge the network's most popular...
Op-ed: Blockstream Calls a Bitcoin Mining Optimization an “Attack”
Gregory Maxwell, Blockstream’s CTO, has made an astonishing statement in the mailing list regarding an algorithmic...
10 Insurance Firms Test Blockchain for Insurance in China
A group of insurance companies has completed a new blockchain trial in China. In a Sina Finance report, the news agency revealed...
Australia Delays Promise to End Bitcoin Double Tax
Over a year after the Australian government promised to put an end to the double taxation of bitcoin purchases, authorities...
TMX Selects Hyperledger For Blockchain Voting Prototype
Financial services firm TMX Group yesterday became the latest to join the heated race to provide stockholders with blockchain...
Newsflash: Bitcoin Price Run Reaches $1,200
The bullish bitcoin price trend continues in a strong start to April as price breaches $1,200 on the Bitstamp Price Index...
Transcript: Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi and John Ternus on the state of Apple’s pro Macs
Apple invited a handful of journalists to Cupertino to talk about the future of the Mac platform. The Mac Pro is receiving a minor...
An Ethereum Voting Scheme That Doesn’t Give Away Your Vote
Voting on the blockchain sounds like a brilliant idea, promising to eliminate fraud while providing complete transparency to the...
Cryptocurrency Analysis: Litecoin surges again
Bitcoin My last column discussed the possibility of a close above the 1st arc pair yielding a buy signal. As it turned out, while...
Stellar echoes, Venusian automatons and more gain NASA moonshot funding
NASA has announced the recipients of its most recent round of highly experimental projects it deems promising enough to fund. These...
Samsung Targets Blockchain Consortia With Nexledger Tech
Global technology giant Samsung today unveiled its Nexledger blockchain platform, alongside a series of other announcements. The...
ICO Analysis: Cosmos “Blockchain of Blockchains” – Should You Bet on the Fundraiser?
Cosmos is a novel answer to “sidechains,” which aims to enable users to traverse a galaxy of blockchains with ease. One...
The leaked DJI Spark looks to be the Mavic Pro’s little bother
DJI appears to be about to launch a drone even smaller than the Mavic Pro. Supposedly called the Spark, pics of the little drone...
Bitcoin Hardware Maker Avalon Calls for Mining Industry Changes
In the wake of allegations that bitcoin hardware manufacturers may be engaging in unfair practices, one of the industry's largest...
Litecoin Hits $11 Amid SegWit Expectations in Near 3-Year High
Litecoin prices are up nearly 30% in a 24-hour period with price pushing beyond $10 per coin amid anticipation of the...
How Osmo decides to make its tangible, high-tech toys
A huge number of toys today include high-tech and interactive components that keep kids in front of screens. But when it comes to...
Litecoin Price Nears Two-Year High As SegWit Hopes Rise
Litecoin prices continued a recent rally today, pushing the digital currency to its highest value in more than one year. Far from a...
Decred Benefits From Bitcoin Impasse, Joins Altcoins’ Rise
The current impasse in the Bitcoin community is fueling the rapid growth of some altcoins, as it has been the current drift....
About this stabbing machine | TechCrunch
Thank you for joining me, ladies, gentlemen. Researchers have created a “stabbing machine,” with which they intend to “simulate...
Cosmos – Raises Over 18 million dollars in 3 hours
The Internet of Blockchains Designed to connect all blockchains seamlessly together as a hub. Watch video for an overview ...
Bitcoin’s New Controversy: The AsicBoost Allegations Explained
Bitcoin is abuzz with fresh controversy following an inflammatory new post by Bitcoin Core developer and Blockstream CTO Greg...
“Bitmain Has Never Used AsicBoost in Production”, Says Jihan Wu
Jihan Wu, co-founder of bitcoin mining equipment maker Bitmain, has rebutted a statement made yesterday by Gregory Maxwell...
The LG G6 handles like a dream
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,...
YouTube TV Goes Live
Google’s Biggest Swipe at Comcast Yet YouTube TV has arrived, and with it the potential to change how television works....
The Xbox One Scorpio is a six-teraflop gaming beast
Microsoft couldn’t wait until E3 in June to unveil the Scorpio. So the company shared some details with Digital Foundry. And we now...
Use or Speculation: What’s Driving Ripple’s Price to All-Time Highs?
Chart via Coinmarketcap.comEven by cryptocurrency's often exaggerated market standards, the price of XRP has been on a tear of...
IBM Launches Blockchain Platform for US Oil Trade
Technology giant IBM has developed a blockchain trade finance platform alongside a bank and a commodity trading house to...
Intel Demos Seafood Tracking on Sawtooth Lake Blockchain
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 Unveils Blockchain Platform ‘Nexledger’
Samsung SDS, the IT subsidiary of electronics giant Samsung has launched Nexledger, its blockchain platform for enterprises...
Ethereum Prediction Market Project Gnosis Sets ICO Launch Date
An ethereum prediction market project is moving forward toward its public debut. Following its beta launch last fall, Gnosis, now a...
ViaBTC to Open Bitcoin Exchange After Raising $200,000 in Funding Led by Bitmain
One of the biggest bitcoin mining pools, ViaBTC, is to open a CNY/BTC exchange in around two months with a USD/BTC exchange...
Decentralizing Central Banks: How R3 Envisions the Future of Fiat
The future of central banks could be either on an open, permissionless blockchain or a closed, permissioned distributed ledger,...
No Blocksize Increase Needed for Years, Argues Bitcoin Core Dev
A Reddit discussion on increasing the bitcoin block size clarified why many are opposed to the bitcoin hard fork. A poster...