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The Price of Ether Just Hit a New 2017 High
By Charles Bovaird, Ether, the digital currency that powers the smart contract-based blockchain platform ethereum, rose to its highest...
Another Central Bank in Africa is Warning About Onecoin
By Stan Higgins, Uganda’s central bank is warning local residents about Onecoin, a digital currency scheme widely accused of being...
Bitcoin and the Solar Energy Industry Are Booming in Sync
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, Due to its unprecedented growth, the economic importance of the solar energy industry is surpassing that of the fuel...
Bitcoin Privacy Enhanced: Reusable Payment Codes Just Got More Useful
By Kevin Helms, Reusable payment codes, which can be used in place of bitcoin addresses to give transactions more privacy, just got more...
The Brave Browser and Zero Knowledge Proofs & Bitcoin:
By Justin Connell, Brave’s open-source internet browser, which caused consternation among some newspaper publishers who threatened to sue...
From Bitcoin to Blockchain to Distributed Ledgers
By Nelson M Rosario, “What’s in a name? That which we call an electronic payment system based on cryptographic proof instead of trust by...
International Securities Regulators Publish Blockchain Research
By Stan Higgins, The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), a cooperative group of global securities markets...
Charts: How an ETF Approval Could Impact Bitcoin’s Price
By Willy Woo, This infographic of bitcoin's price is something I've been pondering today. It tells bitcoin's often dramatic price story...
Chinese Exchanges Suspend Withdrawals for One Month
By Jamie Redman, In a surprise turn of events, the two largest Chinese Bitcoin exchanges have suspended Bitcoin and Litecoin withdrawals...
A Bitcoin Hard Fork? Contentious Code Change is Advancing
By Alyssa Hertig, Bitcoin developers are probing deeper into how best to execute a so-called hard fork, a contentious upgrading...
Bitcoin, Blockchain and Trump: Where Do We Go From Here?
By David Brill, The regulatory environment for blockchain and bitcoin (as well as the overall securities environment) is in flux as US...
LinkedIn Killer? Bitcoin Upstart 21 Takes on Social With Email Play
By Bailey Reutzel, Cryptic bitcoin company 21 Inc has launched a paid email platform that seems far removed from its initial...
Winklevoss Bitcoin ETF Offering Expands to $100 Million
By Stan Higgins, New documents filed for the bitcoin exchange traded fund (ETF) sought by investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss...
IBM’s Biggest-Ever Blockchain Trade Finance Trial Could Go Global
Michael del Castillo, Two government agencies funded IBM's latest blockchain implementation, the largest ever in terms of parties involved...
Bitcoin-Friendly Denmark to Appoint First Digital Ambassador
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and other technology giants have reached such importance and power that “they merit their...
New Bitcoin Caching Features Could Improve Block Verification
By Justin Connell, A new way of verifying blocks on the Bitcoin blockchain could make the digital currency more efficient. In the original...
Why Cities Will Soon Choose Digital Currency Over Fiat Money
By Pavel Bains, Over the last 100 years, we have seen all innovation happen in cities. Cities are where people meet and exchange ideas,...
Drugs, Code and ICOs: Monero’s Long Road to Blockchain Respect
By Pete Rizzo, If monero was the top-performing cryptocurrency of 2016, don't tell that to the blockchain project's outspoken...
How Bitcoin Companies can Legally Operate in Switzerland
By Kevin Helms Switzerland is often thought of as a Bitcoin-friendly country. The Canton of Zug, for example, is sometimes called the...
Beware of Crypto-MLMs and High Return Investments on Social Media
By Jamie Redman, Unfortunately, the world of cryptocurrency has seen a bunch of people running scammy ‘investments’ preying on people’s...
UAE Central Bank: We Are Not Banning Bitcoin
By Stan Higgins, The Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) has clarified past statements about a prohibition on “virtual...
Construct 2017: Experts Ask ‘How Long Until Private Ledgers Go Live?
By Alyssa Hertig, Private blockchains are on the cusp of leaving the laboratory and heading to the real world. At least, that's according...
To Catch a Ransomer: How the FBI Chases Crime on the Blockchain
By Michael del Castillo, FBI special agent Joseph Battaglia sits at a desk between a New York police detective and an employee of the...
Greg Maxwell Breaks Down Blockchain: The ‘Uncontrollable Noun’
By Pete Rizzo, "The comments were spot on, but a little vague." While bitcoin has created an economic network without a central...
NH Legislators Seek Money Transmission Exemption for Bitcoin Startups
By Stan Higgins, Legislators in New Hampshire have filed a new bill that aims to clarify rules around digital currencies and money...
The FBI is Worried Criminals Might Use the Private Cryptocurrency Monero
By Michael del Castillo, The privacy-focused digital currency monero has captured the attention of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...
Construct 2017 Bitcoin Gridlock Takes the Stage
By Alyssa Hertig, "It's contingent upon SegWit." Lightning Labs developer Joseph Poon is talking about bitcoin's Lightning Network, the...
cash + Ethereum = ♥: Why Two Blockchains Are Evolving Together By Alyssa Hertig, The blockchain world can feel unfriendly and...
IoT Zerado's New Blockchain Identity & payments prototype lock system By Sid Kalla, While banks have been busy performing...
Bitcoin Volume is On the Move to New No-Fee Exchanges
By Charles Bovaird, Bitcoin trading volume is shifting to new exchanges, data shows. Following the decision by major China-based exchanges...
The Huge Transformer Ship That’s Building America’s Green Future
xxxxxxxxxxxxx By David Hambling Designed to build offshore windmills, the Brave Tern is a ship unlike any America has ever seen. When the...
How Trump’s Wall and Remittance Tax Could Give Bitcoin a Boost
By Kevin Helms, President Donald Trump earlier this week signed an executive order to start building a wall on the U.S – Mexico border,...
Basel Institute: “Take Action Against Digital Currency Mixers/Tumblers”
By Jamie Redman, On January 16-18 in Doha, Qatar, a large group of representatives from the Basel Institute on Governance, Europol,...
Bitgo and Ledger Partner to Offer Multisignature Signing for Hardware Wallets
By Kevin Helms, Popular Bitcoin wallet Bitgo has announced an integration with Ledger hardware wallets for the Nano S and Blue models. The...
Avoiding Catastrophe: Researchers Face Blockchain’s Unknowns
By Alyssa Hertig, 'Catastrophe' may have been the word of choice at a blockchain security conference held at Stanford University...
Bosch, Cisco, Gemalto and More: Tech Giants Team For Blockchain-IoT
By Corin Faife, The Internet of Things (IoT) – the vast web of connected devices which is becoming a fundamental part of the technological...
A Digital Currency Scam is Misusing the Rothschild Family Name
By Stan Higgins, Financial advisory firm Rothschild & Co. issued an unusual warning on Monday: stay away from a "fraudulent" digital...
The IRS is up to no good wants unfettered Access to Coinbase Customer Data
By Stan Higgins, Coinbase officially entered the fray in a court case over its user records earlier this month – and now the IRS is...
BitFury to Expand China Footprint Following $30 Million Deal
By Stan Higgins, A new two-part deal valued at $30m will see BitFury expand its footprint in China. The full-service blockchain technology...
Cold Storage Hardware Wallet Cryptosteel
By Jamie Redman, There are various ways to maintain bitcoin using cold storage techniques like a paper or a hardware wallet. Lots of these...
In the Battle Between Google, Facebook, and Amazon Against Banks: Bitcoin the Winner
By Julio Gil-Pulgar, As the banking industry struggles to keep its competitive advantage, experts mull the possibility of Google,...
The Qtum Project Creates a Mixture of Bitcoin and Ethereum
By Jamie Redman, A new project called Qtum has been created by the Singapore-based Quantum Foundation that plans to meld the Bitcoin...
Blockchain-Friendly Congressman Faces Hearings for Trump Budget Role
By Stan Higgins, A blockchain-friendly member of Congress faced confirmation hearings on Capitol Hill yesterday in his bid to join the...
Microsoft Unveils A Plan For Blockchain Product Tracking
By Michael del Castillo, Technology originally developed to help NASA communicate with deep space probes now lies at the heart of a new...
What If Bitcoin’s Big ‘Problem’ is Its Great Strength. Scaling?
By Pete Rizzo, "Maybe it's not as big a problem as we think it is." That sentiment, summed up by bitcoin lending startup founder Shawn...
How Ethereum Smart Contracts Could Replace Mining Pool Managers
By Alyssa Hertig, Ethereum smart contracts might one day be used to combat one of the biggest problems with cryptocurrencies at large,...
Nasdaq Declares Blockchain Voting Trial a ‘Success’
By Stan Higgins, Exchange operator Nasdaq has released its conclusions about a blockchain e-voting trial it conducted in Estonia last...
China’s Bitcoin Exchanges End No-Fee Trading in Market Shake-Up
By Pete Rizzo, China's 'Big Three' bitcoin exchange businesses are taking new steps to "curb speculation" and "prevent volatility" in the...
Why a New Small Business Blockchain is Actually a Big Deal
By Noelle Acheson, Efforts to apply blockchain in the supply chain took an interesting turn last week. I'm speaking, of course, about a...
Blockchain Wallets Are Coming to a Car Near You
By Pete Rizzo, An ethereum wallet for every car? It's no secret cars have become more connected, but a new concept from a trio of big-name...
Blockchain for Journalism: How a Big Funding Idea is Starting Small
By Corin Faife, Journalism funding is in crisis. As the industry shifts to digital and its meagre click-based ad revenues, something in...
Bitcoin Options Firm LedgerX Crosses Key Launch Hurdle
Michael del Castillo, The wait is almost over for LedgerX, a New York-based bitcoin swaps startup with a board boasting a who's who of...
China tightens Great Firewall – VPN services declared illegal
By Josh Ye, This Move means all cable and VPN services need prior government approval and comes as Beijing steps up censorship before...
Bitcoin Investment Trust Could IPO by October
By Kevin Helms, Bitcoin Investment Trust (BIT) wants to be listed on NYSE Arca, according to a registration statement filed Friday with...
‘Covenants’ Mean You Can Burn Stolen Bitcoins
By Justin Connell, Cornell computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer thinks a bitcoin wallet model called ‘Covenants’ would disincentivize...
Is Abra Finally Ready for Its Big Debut?
By Jonathan Keane, At this week's North American Bitcoin Conference, P2P digital cash startup Abra announced that, starting next month, it...
SEC ‘Unlikely’ to Approve a Bitcoin ETF
By Michael del Castillo, One of the lawyers who helped craft the application for what would be the first-ever bitcoin exchange-traded fund...
Illinois’s Digital Currency Guidance is In
By Stan Higgins, A planned approach to regulating digital currencies is winning praise from industry participants, public documents...
Blockstream Makes its Case for Bitcoin-Powered Private Blockchains
By Alyssa Hertig, Private and public blockchains, normally siloed both technologically and culturally, could become more intertwined if a...
Gold Bulls Have History on Their Side as Trump Takes Helm
Newmax - Gold bulls wagering the bullion rally has more room to run may have history on their side with the arrival of a new U.S....
IT’S ABOUT TO GET EASY TO HIDE ON THE DARK WEB
BY ANDY GREENBERG, SITES ON THE so-called dark web, or darknet, typically operate under what seems like a privacy paradox: While...
How to Create an Anonymous Email Account
BY ERIC GRIFFITH The Internet doesn't make it easy to go completely anonymous. Here's how you can stay hidden even when emailing. Not long...
The Blockchain is Still Waiting for Its Web. Here’s a Blueprint
By William Mougayar, Mougayar is the author of "The Business Blockchain" and a board advisor to, and investor in, various...
Where’s Casper? Inside Ethereum’s Race to Reinvent its Blockchain
By Alyssa Hertig, If you've been following ethereum at all, you're likely aware the blockchain project has a lot riding on something...
Digital Asset’s New Challenger: DLT Disillusionment
By Michael del Castillo, Stakeholders at one of the first mainstream financial institutions to build with distributed ledger technology...
Trump’s ‘Acting’ CFTC Chair Details Vision for Blockchain Regulation
By Michael del Castillo, Donald Trump hasn't even formally appointed CFTC commissioner Chris Giancarlo as chairman yet, and he's already...
Hyperledger Adds ‘Cello’ Blockchain Deployment Tool to Its Arsenal
By Stan Higgins, The Linux Foundation-led Hyperledger initiative has added a new blockchain deployment tool to its growing pool of...
US Army Takes flight Like Amazon Delivery – Only Heavy Lifter
By Nick Lavars What started as crazy DIY project in an Australian backyard six years ago has now blossomed into a cutting-edge aircraft...
Want to run your own Amazon ‘region’? Stratoscale shows you how
Founder and CEO of Stratoscale Ariel Maislos By John Gallant Stratoscale is a small company with a very big...
Bitcoin Exchange Coinbase Receives New York BitLicense
By Michael del Castillo, The New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) has awarded cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase a formal...
Predicting the future brings stability to quantum computing
By Michael Franco, Quantum computing could dramatically speed up processing, but it needs to be made more stable first. While quantum...
ECB Actively Considering Cash-Like Central Bank Digital Currency
By Kevin Helms, In a speech on Monday, Yves Mersch, Member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB), discussed how the...
Do Satoshi’s Libertarian Statements from the Past Matter Anymore?
By Jamie Redman, Bitcoin is a revolutionary experiment that may disrupt the world’s financial markets and society’s norms in more ways...
Russia’s Relationship with Bitcoin May See Brighter Days Ahead
By Jamie Redman, The state of bitcoin’s legality in Russia has been shaky over the past couple of years. Reports of bitcoin bans, jail...
Gold and Bitcoin Form Symbiotic Relationship
By Justin Connell, “I had to change my thought process to understand that bitcoin is no enemy of gold and silver,” says monetary expert...
Deloitte’s New Wall Street Lab is a Blockchain Paradise
By Michael del Castillo, Sitting conveniently between the New York Federal Reserve bank’s 500,000 bars of gold and Wall Street you...
UAE ‘Virtual Currency’ Restrictions Cast Uncertain Shadow on Bitcoin
By Stan Higgins, While the world waits to see how the People’s Bank of China moves to regulate bitcoin and digital currencies, another...
‘Blockchain’ May Fail Banks, But Open Software Won’t
By Pavel Kravchenko, Kravchenko is a decentralized systems expert, public speaker and the founder of Distributed Lab, a startup dedicated...
Why Dublin is Turning Into a Haven for Blockchain
by Corin Faife, In the wake of Brexit, the Republic of Ireland could become the go-to European hub for FinTech companies, and among them,...
The U.S. Empire & Gold Would Have Collapsed Decades Ago…
... If It Didn’t Abandon The Gold Standard By Steve St. Angelo The U.S. will never go back on a gold standard. The notion that a U.S....
Some Blockchain Tokens are Securities, Researchers Find
By Justin O' Connell, Does this product make sense? Is there a clear explanation of what the network does? Is there a clear use-case for...
Bitcoin Mining Power Growing Bigger But Greener
By Jamie Redman, Bitcoin has created a vast mining sector within the network’s economy that is growing exponentially. Mining bitcoin has...
Europe Committed to Digital Currency Rules by End of 2017
By Kevin Helms, The European Parliament has recently released a report entitled ‘The Juncker Commission’s ten priorities: State of play at...
Creating Altcoins is Easy, Maintaining One is Not
By Jamie Redman, Love them or hate them, there’s a lot of altcoins in the crypto-economy. In fact, in 2017 there are roughly more than 700...
Deploy Servers Anonymously with Bitcoin from the Command Line
By Kevin Helms, Developers often build and test their applications in temporary server environments called cloud or virtual servers, from...
Things Bitcoin Companies Try To Patent
By Justin O' Connell, Amazon. AT&T. Bank of America. Goldman Sachs. IBM. JPMorgan. Mastercard. R3. Western Union. Verizon. These are...
Bitcoin Price Fluctuations Calm Amid Chinese Regulatory Suspense
Charles Bovaird, Markets Weekly is a weekly column analyzing price movements in the global blockchain token markets. This edition looks at...
Law and Blockchain
By Josh Stark, Stark is a lawyer and head of operations and legal at Ledger Labs, a blockchain consultancy based in Toronto. It's...
Why Blockchain Will Trump Populism
By Jens Albers, Albers is a humanitarian filmmaker and the co-founder of chain2change, a blockchain startup seeking to reinvent charitable...
Blockchain Could Become an $8 Billion Global Industry By 2024
By Stan Higgins, The next eight years could see the blockchain marketplace grow to almost $8bn in value, according to a new research...