By Michael del Castillo Global accounting firm KPMG yesterday launched a suite of tools designed to help banks and other financial...

Ben Coxworth According to University of Washington-based startup JikoPower, approximately 80 percent of Kenyans have a cell phone, but...

David Szondy In February, NASA announced that it wanted to use its New Aviation Horizons program to revive the famed X-plane that did so...

By Stan Higgins, A member of the US House of Representatives has proposed that the country's administration for veterans affairs use...

  Stan Higgins, Blockchain startup itBit has taken steps to reorganize its corporate assets. Announced yesterday, itBit officially...

Jamie Redman Bitcoin mining in China has become more open to the media lately. A mining operation in Tibet has shared with the public how...

  Kevin Helms Multinational professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) recently published a report saying blockchain...

Jamie Redman A new cryptocurrency-inspired television show called BitGirls will air on Tokyo MX TV this fall. The Japanese show features...

Jamie Redman Tech giant Apple has been picky lately when it comes to certain cryptocurrencies. However, on September 12 the Cupertino,...

Pete Rizzo, Blockchain payments firm Circle has integrated with Apple's iMessage, a move that allows users to send payments in dollars,...

Michael del Castillo The code at the heart of the IEX stock exchange that inspired author Michael Lewis's bestseller "Flash Boys" could...

Jamie Redman Straits Financial LLC will be the first US Futures Commission to accept bitcoin through processing service BitPay. The firm...

Allen Scott As the new NFL season picks up, Bitcoin users now have the option to watch any game each week, for a fraction of the price....

  Kevin Helms The European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol, announced the establishment of a working group on money laundering...

  Jamie Redman Indian bitcoin exchange Unocoin recently announced its over-the-counter (OTC) marketplace. The company, founded in 2013,...

  Jamie Redman The International Blockchain Week in Shanghai begins on September 19 and lasts through the 24th. This time around, the...

Jamie Redman An article in the New York Times titled “Downside of Bitcoin: A Ledger That Can’t Be Corrected” has riled the...

 Find Your Google History Update: Google has just consolidated a lot of these features into the new My Account area. It's got a better...

By Tom Brant, Soon, you might have a hard time telling the difference between human and computer voices. Apple's Siri personal assistant...

Scott Collie Tesla has worked hard to establish itself making high-end, luxury electric cars, now it's got its sights set on the...

By Adam Goldman, Milton Friedman once said, "Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the...

By Ariel Deschapell Bitcoin’s unique ecosystem of peers and stakeholders stands in stark contrast to most other human organizations. The...

Jim Harper, If Ayn Rand were involved in the bitcoin or crypto world, she might well identify "consensus" as an "anti-concept". The...

George Samman, One of the bigger trends in the blockchain world, particularly when it comes to financial services and specifically capital...

Jamie Redman The Bank of England (BoE) is ramping up its efforts to research and develop fintech and understand distributed ledger...

  Trevor Hill, With the emergence of bitcoin-based Exchange-Traded Funds (ETF), chatter from observers suggests that the activities coming...

  Jamie Redman SophosLabs has published a report on how hackers are distributing a new mining malware across the web. The Mal/Miner-C...

Jamie Redman Two researchers from Spanish financial group Banco Santander S.A. have released a report concerning the benefits of Bitcoin...

Michael del Castillo, A venture-backed cryptocurrency with the promise to provide truly anonymous transactions is scheduled to launch in...

Charles Bovaird, The price of bitcoin rose close to 10% this week, pushing higher as bullish market sentiment and low liquidity created an...

Michael del Castillo, Leading members of the Hyperledger blockchain project are scheduled to address the European branch of the...

Jamie Redman, The Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project has just announced its partnership with the Chinese conglomerate Wanda Group. As...

  Jamie Redman, Bitcoin payment processor Bitwala revealed on September 8 that even though it accepts 40 altcoins, the startup will focus...

Jamie Redman, With the new blockchain industry growing, the rise of filing patents has become a seemingly necessary step for people...

  William Suberg, Bitcoin merchant acceptance startup Stripe has placed fourth in the first-ever Forbes Cloud 100, signifying a new level...

Jamie Redman, A new economy is emerging from Bitcoin and blockchain technology. These new markets have created countless new jobs. People...

Jeremy Kahn jeremyakahn Google’s DeepMind unit, which is working to develop super-intelligent computers, has created a system for...

Wendy McElroy The context in which the Internet operates may dramatically change…or not. The End of the ICANN Monopoly? At issue is who or...

Jamie Redman The use of Bitcoin may get some more fortification in India as the region’s most wealthiest man is enabling super cheap 4G to...

Jamie Redman The Syscoin project recently announced the formation of a company entity called Blockchain Foundry. The newly created Foundry...

Stan Higgins A securities affiliate of Spanish banking group Banco Santander is predicting bitcoin will have a significant impact on the...

Stan Higgins The UK's newly opened FinTech accelerator is seeking additional ways to explore blockchain tech. Speaking during an event in...

By Charles Bovaird The price of bitcoin surged more than 2% on Thursday, 8th September, nearing $630 as speculators caused the digital...

By Frances Coppola To use radical new technology effectively, you have to be radical – otherwise, all you end up with is a retro-fitted...

John Paczkowski The standard audio jack that connects your headphones to just about everything has been around for nearly 150 years....

by Cade Metz The Friday afternoon news dump, a grand tradition observed by politicians and capitalists alike, is usually supposed to hide...

Alyssa Hertig The company featured in the bestselling book "Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt" reportedly plans to use the blockchain to...

Michael del Castillo 'Big Four' accounting firm Deloitte is now the owner and operator of its first bitcoin ATM. After a quiet unveiling...

By Stan Higgins New documents suggest Italy's top tax office is treating bitcoin as a form of currency. Agenzia della Entrate, Italy's...

William Mougayar The more people understand the blockchain, the more we will see a proliferation of useful cases for it. Just like any...

  ‘China won’t succeed where US has failed’: future of  after Nobel laureate’s harsh words Stephen Chen A plan to develop a super particle...

By Stan Higgins China's state social security system is reportedly looking into how it could leverage blockchain technology. According to...

Michael del Castillo Ernst & Young has announced six startups will participate in its first-ever startup contest focused exclusively...

By Stan Higgins South America's biggest stock exchange operator has joined the R3 distributed ledger consortium. BM&F Bovespa, based...

By Michael del Castillo More than $5m worth of digital currency associated with the attack on The DAO is on the move. Identified via an...

By Pete Rizzo Hong Kong's de-facto central bank intends to launch an innovation hub that will test blockchain and distributed ledger...

Pete Rizzo A big bank trade finance trial has borne fruit. Barclays reported today that two partners (agriculture co-operative Ornua and...

By Stan Higgins BNY Mellon has developed a test system that leverages blockchain technology to create a backup record of its brokerage...

By Julio Gil-Pulgar Drones for peaceful purposes are relentlessly converging with Bitcoin and its blockchain technology to defy obsolete...

  By Kevin Helms Hong Kong’s top banking regulator, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), unveiled two FinTech initiatives today. The...

By Jamie Redman The newly-appointed Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) chief, Dominic Stevens, recently defended the company’s stake in...

By Jamie Redman Agriculture jobs are a big part of the worldwide economy and blockchain technology is starting to make headway in this...

By Jamie Redman A group of students from the Technical University of Berlin (TU) has created a chess game on Ethereum using...

By Colin Jeffrey They're not the first transistors created using carbon nanotubes (CNTs), but researchers at the University of...

By Nick Lavars When it comes to making the concept of delivery drones a reality, using vans to handle the brunt of the work is an idea...

  By Michael del Castillo If Microsoft Azure's CTO is right, R3CEV may have just been the beginning. Mark Russinovich envisions a world...

By William Suberg August saw the first meeting of US credit unions looking to pioneer so-called distributed ledger technology (DLT) in...

  By Jamie Redman According to Wang Zhongmin, China’s vice-chairman of the National Council for Social Security Fund (NCSSF), the country...

By Jamie Redman The need for blockchain specialists in the finance field is growing fast, says Yahoo Finance. Companies such as American...

John Anderson, DroneSeed's drones would rapidly reforest logged lands by planting seeds, spraying for invasive species, and monitoring the...

Scott Collie, Formula E may not attract the same attention as Formula 1, but it's building momentum as the 2016/2017 season edges closer....

By Nicholas Tomaino, Spurred by Union Square Ventures partner Albert Wenger's recent blog post, there's been lots of discussion about...

By Michael del Castillo, Digital asset trading service Crypto Facilities has announced a $1.5m seed round led by Pamir Gelenbe's AngelList...

By Jamie Redman According to various reports, a malicious group of hackers called the “51 Crew” is hijacking blockchain clones by taking a...

By Trevor Hill Chinese mining pool, ViaBTC, has made the decision to test Bitcoin Unlimited. This is a significant move on the part of the...

By Jamie Redman The price of bitcoin is in a bullish pattern, seeing significant spikes over the past 24 hours. At press time, the value...

By William Mougayar, As government services are one of the most obvious and immediate application areas for the blockchain, it's no...

By Jamie Redman The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering (IEEE) has released a study called “Minting Money With Megawatts,”...

By Stan Higgins China Merchants Bank has become the latest Asia-based bank to join the R3 blockchain consortium. The commercial bank,...

by Stan Higgins Board members of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS) recently took part in a discussion on...

By Bailey Reutzel The credit union industry is following the lead of hackers and thieves, according to Jeff Johnson, chief information...

By William Suberg Decentralized land registry project Bitland has announced its ICO crowdfunding campaign and slated launch following a...

By Jamie Redman Innopolis City in Russia’s Republic of Tatarstan will host a fintech and blockchain hackathon on September 17-18 sponsored...

  By Jamie Redman On September 1, Bitfinex reimbursed its first wave of clients. 1.1812 percent of currently outstanding BFX tokens were...

By Jamie Redman A new joint research project from four Japanese organizations has formed a collaborative to promote regional development...

  By Jamie Redman The PAR Project (par.io) a Productive Asset Record system, has released its white paper today revealing the launch of...

by Stan Higgins A new report from the chair of the Kimberley Process – an initiative aimed at keeping conflict diamonds out of the global...

  By Michael Franco Dr. Gielen (left) and his partner on the paper, Neil Turok of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics...

  By  David Szondy Artist's concept of the Boom supersonic passenger plane A Denver-based startup company is entering the race to...

  By  Michael Franco Today's explosion took out a Falcon 9 rocket, like this one, along with the communications satellite it was meant to...