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$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...
Inside Andy Rubin’s futuristic Playground hardware incubator
With titanium 3D printers, electrostatic charge tables, and a giant slide, Playground Global lives up to it’s a name....
Silk Road Goes Dark: Bitcoin Survives Its Biggest Market’s Demise
Marco Santori is a FinTech lawyer based in New York City where he leads the blockchain tech team at Cooley LLP. In this latest...
Blockchain Asset Fund TaaS Raises $7.7 Million Through ICO
TaaS, a closed-end fund dedicated solely to blockchain assets, recently completed an ICO, raising $7.7 million from 3,761...
Urban-X’s investors showcase features high-tech face masks, navigation for the blind and more
The Urban-X investors showcase is a closed-door event that shows off eight different incubated startups to potential investors and...
CME Explores Cryptocurrency Derivatives Contracts in Patent Filing
Derivatives giant CME has developed a system for delivering digital currencies tied to derivative contracts, patent documents show....
ICO Analysis: Voise | Hacked: Hacking Finance
The current generation is the passionate generation, the creator generation, the founder generation. Where our parents saw things...
Baby tech draws seed funding and a few big rounds
Becoming a parent brings drastic change in the household budget. There are big cuts in funding for nights out, trendy clothes and...
Sorting Hat Time? MimbleWimble Weighs Own Blockchain Launch
A team of anonymous Harry Potter-inspired developers has released a new outline for the development of the cryptocurrency anonymity...
Overseas Remittance is a $400 Billion Market, Can Bitcoin Dominate?
FastCompany’s report revealed that overseas remittance totaled $429 billion in 2016. Some of the largest Remittance markets...
Is ICO Speculation Healthy? – CoinDesk
A new and hip way to invest is becoming real via advances in blockchain tech. On 19th April, the ethereum banking app Humaniq...
Facebook Millionaire & NBA Franchise Owner Believes in Bitcoin
A venture capitalist and Facebook Millionaire is invested in Bitcoin, calls it the ‘Ultimate insurance policy against value...
The WriteyDesk is a desk you can write on
Whether you’re an unsung mathematical genius with a penchant for writing complex equations all over everything or a damn vandal,...
US Credit Raters Join Canadian Banks in Blockchain Identity Trial
A pair of US credit reporting agencies are reportedly taking part in a blockchain identity project with a group of Canadian banks....
European Central Bank Reaffirms Need to Support Blockchain Tech
The European Central Bank (ECB) reaffirmed the need to make sure it follows through on initiatives to ensure regulations do...
The Trayvax Element is a minimalist wallet for the paranoid beer-lover
I went digging recently for another minimalist wallet and boy did I find one. My old one, two pieces of titanium attached with a...
Crédit Agricole Subsidiary Joins Blockchain Post-Trade Pilot
The asset servicer for French banking group Crédit Agricole has joined an ongoing blockchain pilot focused on post-trade services...
Did a Celebrated Indian Novelist Just Comment on the Ethereum ETF?
Anita Desai, Indian novelist and the Emerita John E. Burchard Professor of Humanities at the Massachusetts Institute of...
BlindPAD’s tablet makes visual information tactile for the vision-impaired
It’s truly amazing, the wealth of information we all have at our fingertips — that is, of course, unless your fingertips are how...
The Second Wave of Bitcoin Price Growth May Just Be Beginning
Willy Woo is an entrepreneur, investor, trader and cryptocurrency enthusiast. In this guest feature, Woo breaks down recent...
US Treasury OCC Chief’s Departure Puts Special Fintech Charters In Limbo
A proposal to allow fintech companies to have special bank charters has fallen into question due to the departure today of...
This could be Amazon’s Echo with a built-in display
Rumor has it that Amazon has been working on an Echo device with a touchscreen for a while. AFTVnews spotted an image on Amazon’s...
Certified Accountants Say Blockchain Could Change the Way They’re Paid
Blockchain could change the way accountants generate revenue, according to a report published yesterday by the Association of...
Bitcoin Giants BitPay & Bitmain Ink ‘Multi-Million Dollar’ Blockchain Agreement
Bitcoin payment processor BitPay has announced an agreement with bitcoin mining hardware maker Bitmain to develop open-source...
Ring ring ring Banana phone
No, I’m not referring to the popular 1994 children’s track titled Banana Phone which became quite popular on the Internet in the...
Microsoft teases new Surface event in Shanghai on May 23rd
If the Surface Laptop wasn’t enough, Microsoft is going to announce new devices once again at an event later this month. The...
Ethereum’s Big Switch: The New Roadmap to Proof-of-Stake
After years of development, ethereum has a new plan to update the algorithm that keeps its entire network in sync. Vitalik Buterin,...
Indian IT Giant Wipro Joins the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance as Founding Member
Indian IT services and consulting powerhouse Wipro has joined the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance (EEA) as a founding member to...
A Decentralized Coin Mixer For Ethereum? Zcoin Is Working on It
The development team behind zcoin, a privacy-focused cryptocurrency built on the same Zerocash protocol that underlies zcash, has...
Australian Govt Looks to Regulate Bitcoin Exchanges
The Australian government is considering the regulation of the local digital currency space by revealing plans to bring...
Ethereum’s Ether Token Passes $100 Price For First Time in History
The price of ether, the cryptocurrency that powers the world's second-largest blockchain platform, ethereum, passed $100 today to...
Litecoin Goes Parabolic, Up 30%, Reaches a Market Cap of $1 Billion
Litecoin has gone up some 30%, rising from around $16 to now trade at almost $23, giving the currency a market cap of $1...
Qualcomm could be looking at banning iPhone imports into the U.S.
I don’t think anyone was expecting this punch. According to a new report from Bloomberg, Qualcomm is thinking about asking the...