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Pebble preps for the end of its smartwatch services
The end is near for Pebble. The latest update to Pebble watches should extend their life a bit longer by removing the dependency on...
Building ‘The Blockchain’: Developers Aren’t Giving Up on Big Ambitions
Even as bitcoin's block size debate rages on, enterprising developers are looking beyond the infighting to focus attention on...
Schism Developing Between Lightning Network and Bitcoin Core Developers
The latest developments in the Cryptowar are what appears to be a developing schism between some Lightning Network developers...
Swiss system ups security and reliability of finger-based biometrics
Biometrics may not be the perfect solution for security, but they can be useful — as long as they’re robust and well thought out....
Litecoin Moves Within 5% of its SegWit Activation Threshold
The litecoin network appears to be on the cusp of enacting a technical upgrade that would boost the capacity of its network. At...
Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Completes Reimbursing Customers For 2016 Hack Losses
Bitfinex recently completed reimbursing customers who had suffered losses in its August 2016 hack and 119,756 bitcoins...
Philly Fed President Praises Blockchain’s Authentication Abilities
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia weighed in on the possibilities of blockchain tech in a new speech this...
9 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Buy with Bitcoin
If you’re new to Bitcoin, you might be wondering what you can spend your cryptocurrency on. The answer might surprise you....
Taser rebrands as Axon and offers free body cameras to any police department
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 Land Registry Tech Gets Test in Brazil
Blockchain startup Ubitquity has announced it will overhaul the land registrar offices of two Brazilian municipalities by embedding...
Investment Recommendations April 5th | Hacked: Hacking Finance
EUR/USD: Short-Term Sell (Update) EUR/USD, 4-Hour Chart Analysis The pair has been consolidating after the sell-off last week,...
Decentralizating Central Banks: How R3 Envisions Future Fiat Currencies
The future of central banks could be either on an open, permissionless blockchain or a closed, permissioned distributed ledger,...
UK Looks to Strengthen FinTech Ties with India
A UK envoy that includes politicians, central bank officials, and prominent FinTech executives are in India to discuss trade...
Blockchain Capital Releases New Details on Ethereum ICO Token
An investment memorandum published yesterday provides new details about an effort from venture capital firm Blockchain Capital to...
Japan Accepts Bitcoin as Legal Payment Method. What’s Next?
Legislation making bitcoin and virtual currencies legal currency took effect this month in Japan. The country’s Financial...
The Gold Rush Begins: The Day Bitcoin Topped the US Dollar
One of bitcoin's earliest angel investors, Roger Ver has backed a number of startups including BitPay, Purse and ShapeShift, and is...
Singapore Registers the Litecoin Foundation as Public Company Limited
The Litecoin Foundation, a non-profit organization headed by Litecoin creator Charlie Lee has been successfully incorporated...
Zcash Enters Top 10 Cryptocurrencies By Market Cap
The privacy-oriented digital currency zcash became one of the 10 largest digital currencies by market capitalization on 4th April,...
Top Energy Executive Joins UK Blockchain Startup
Mainstream energy executives are getting into blockchain. A former boss at utility company Npower joined a blockchain startup...
Blockchain Startup Wyre Acquires Remitsy for China Market Push
Blockchain payments startup Wyre has acquired industry startup Remitsy in a cash and equity deal of an undisclosed amount. With the...
Tech Writer Warns The Uninitiated: Don’t Own Bitcoin
David Pogue David Pogue, the founder of Yahoo Tech and a writer for Yahoo Finance, advises viewers that bitcoin is worthy of...
Polish Ministry Backs Blockchain Best Practices Proposal
The Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs has adopted a new proposal designed to allow the local blockchain industry to self-regulate....
Bitcoin Blitzes Beyond $1,150, Prices Up 8% in April
Bitcoin prices scaled above $1,150 on Tuesday, reaching a high of $1,162 on the Bitstamp Price Index (BPI) to continue a...
GAW Miners SEC Case Set for 2018 Court Date
A February 2018 trial date has been set for a civil trial pitting the SEC against infamous cryptocurrency entrepreneur Homero...
Op-ed: A New Bitcoin Blocksize Proposal Goes Nowhere
I woke up today to what appeared to be good news. Joseph Poon, a Lightning Network developer, Stephen Pair from BitPay,...
SureFlap has an app-controlled pet door in the pipeline
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 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...