Senators in New Hampshire have passed a bill that would exempt digital currency traders from money transmission regulations,...

The day of reckoning has finally arrived, which will see whether the New Hampshire’s state Senate will pass a bill that will...

Shopify has designed its own hardware for the first time, building out a design team and coming up with a unique approach to the...

Malta’s government is reportedly on the cusp of embracing blockchain through the adoption of a national strategy focused on the...

Arizona Governor Doug Ducey has signed a bill into law that prohibits the blockchain technology from being used to track...

GoPro today announced the Fusion, a camera capable of capturing spherical video for use in VR and standard video formats through a...

If you're wondering why litecoin is attracting new attention of late, you might not be alone. The often-overlooked alternative...

Global investment bank and financial giant Nomura will invest in Indian FinTech startups using its new $100 million fund as a...

Keeping a forest healthy often means deciding what to do tree by tree and acre by acre. That’s easy enough with a square mile of...

The blockchain industry needs pragmatism – not idealism. That was the focus behind a talk given by Cornell University associate...

A new report has found that in the last ten years, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) fintech startups have raised $100...

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Coinbase is reportedly launching a new subsidiary brand focusing on secure messaging and blockchain-enabled payments, its chief...

Prominent China-based bitcoin exchange OKCoin joins Hong Kong-based Bitfinex in freezing wire transfers, citing ‘issues’ with...

Scientists are set to engage in a frivolous race of single-molecule “nanocars” on, if you can believe it, a solid gold track. It’s...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the first-ever meeting of its High Level Advisory Group on FinTech today, a group...

German automaker Porsche is seeking founders and startups in the blockchain industry to participate in a contest as it seeks...

More and more devices, from smart dash cams to head-up displays to Bluetooth-enabled diagnostics dongles, are looking to tap your...

Exchange operator Nasdaq is looking to invest in blockchain startups as part of a new venture initiative. Nasdaq Ventures,...

Three of the biggest music societies have teamed up to research a new system that will manage music copyright information...

On day two of Facebook’s F8 conference, Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s CTO showed off designs for two new 360 cameras that the company...

A subsidiary of French banking giant BNP Paribas revealed today that it is utilizing blockchain tech for a fund-distribution...

On April 17, Bitmain’s mining pool Antpool’s hashrate abruptly surged by around 20 percent in a period of few hours, from 200...

With distributed ledger technology being promoted as a benefit to everything from farming to Fair Trade coffee, use case...

In a month where bitcoin gains prominence in Japan’s mainstream after the cryptocurrency saw recognition as a legal method of...

"I went into the blockchain and I never left." Harvard researcher Primavera De Filippi is perhaps most well-known for blockchain...

S&P 500: Short-Term Sell   S&P 500 futures, 4-Hour Chart Analysis The index remains below the line-in-the-sand zone between...

Germany's top finance regulator has moved to shut down a payment processor tied to to the OneCoin cryptocurrency scheme, a digital...

Bitcoin price has recovered from last week’s late tumble to push beyond the $1,200 milestone, as it makes gains toward the...

Well, it was fun while it lasted. The NES Classic Edition (it went by several names, but you know what I mean) was the must-have...

The largest US-based health insurer is looking to hire a new point person on blockchain development. UnitedHealth is seeking a...

The White Hackers Group has extended the deadline for withdrawing DAO tokens on the ETC chain from the 15th of April 2017 to...

Virtual reality really isn’t good enough yet to justify going broke for. Though VR headset prices are steadily coming down, the...

Blockchain startup Factom has finished raising just over $8m as part of an extended Series A round. Last October, the firm said...

Theresa May, the British unelected current Prime Minister, has surprised and at the same time excited everyone by all the...

Digital currency exchange Kraken is adding support for wire transfers denominated in US dollars and other government-issued...

In a complete u-turn, F2Pool has now announced they are in favor of segregated witnesses (segwit), a protocol upgrade that...

In light of the hype and lack of clarity surrounding blockchain, one of Japan's government ministries has developed a...

An industry group of Indian bitcoin and blockchain-startups have sought an audience with the government as the latter looks...

The team behind ethereum’s most popular user client have released a new update that includes support for alternative consensus...

Bitfinex has announced today that bank transfers will no longer be processed, just days after the exchange said there will be...

Long before the iPhone or even the Mac, Apple was a handful of people working in an industry that was only just beginning to take...

Blockchain startup Chain has named a Goldman Sachs managing director as its new president. Tom Jessop is joining the firm after...

Boris Titov, a Russian businessman/ombudsman, and bitcoin advocate, has proposed the creation of a region in the Crimea...

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An announcement by one of the world's largest bitcoin exchanges has stoked fears another Mt Gox-style meltdown may be brewing. The...

The London Keyes Edition bitcoin ATM at the Legends Club. Mixing up bitcoin with gentlemanly entertainment has been a popular...

PicoBrew has been around for a while, making beer brewing easy, even for people who don’t know the difference between hops and...

A group of local bitcoin and blockchain businesses has a message for India’s government: hear us out. Last week, India revealed...

It’s Easter and some relatives of yours want to come visit. They live in a remote area of the country and aren’t exactly...

One iPhone case is much like the other unless it’s made of figured walnut wood from a retired woodworker in California and feels...

Derivatives giant CME Group is looking to patent a way for bitcoin miners to hedge against operational risks. As detailed in a...

Ethereum ETH has been bumping along under the weight of a 3rd arc pair on a longer-term chart for the past few days. There is an...

William Mougayar is the author of "The Business Blockchain" and a board advisor to, and investor in, various blockchain projects...

The operator and parent company of one of India’s largest retail chains is betting big on innovative technologies like...

Many early blockchain initiatives have only been implemented in testing environments, while their future commercial use...

The user base and market cap of bitcoin are larger than most fiat currencies of small countries in Central America, Africa...

“When Horace Jones was re-imagining Old Billingsgate Market, Britain was in the throes of its Second Industrial Revolution –...

Joe Pindar is CTO and director of product strategy at Gemalto, where he formulates roadmaps and prioritizes development to align...

An EU-regulated fund, High Tech Private Equity Fund SICAV plc, managed by Accuro Fund Solutions, has acquired nChain, a...

Galia Ben-Artzi is a founder of Bancor, a Swiss-based non-profit focused on solving the liquidity challenge in asset exchange....

Blockchain Capital recently raised $10 million for a venture capital fund, Blockchain Capital III Digital Liquid Venture...

Chris DeRose is a software developer, bitcoin evangelist, public speaker and lead developer of Drop Zone. In this opinion piece,...

Austrian officials released a recent report indicating that money laundering had increased over the past year in the central...

It's too early to discuss legally recognizing bitcoin, a Russian central bank official said yesterday in an interview...

The week passed by in a surprisingly different manner than I had been expecting. One week ago I thought that it was going to be an...

A pair of Ohio prison inmates used bitcoin as part of a cybercrime scheme uncovered last year, according to a newly released...

In a surprising move, F2Pool, which has around 9% network hardware share, began signaling for segregated witnesses (segwit),...

Will bitcoin hard fork amid its escalating scaling debate? Was ether's price rally a result of the newly launched Enterprise...

Ledger, a blockchain security provider that offers products for the blockchain market, including service appliances for...

While the strict regulations that emerged following the 2007–2008 financial crisis drew fire from many industry participants, they...

After long and careful consideration, R3CEV, better known as the R3 consortium, also simply called R3, reportedly denied the...

Ben Jessel is a managing principal at Capco, a global business and technology consultancy dedicated solely to the financial...

Isn’t it absurd that nearly 326 million people representing 80% of the adult population in Africa do not have access to bank...

At the start of April, Matchpool, a new dating app that pays out cryptocurrency rewards to successful matchmakers, held a highly...

Ryan Shea, the co-founder of Blockstack, describes Bitcoin Core’s Segregated Witness (Segwit) as a “Swiss army knife in terms...

A legislative proposal to study the use of blockchain technology for elections in Maine has failed, public records show. As...

The Bitfury Group, a major bitcoin- and blockchain-company, has announced a deal with the government of Ukraine that will...

An under-the-radar effort to supercharge ethereum smart contracts is gaining momentum. While it may seem like another in-progress...

Minecraft players will be happy to know that in the coming months, they will have a much wider range of officially-allowed...

UPDATE (14th April 21:50 BST): This article has been updated to reflect that the ETC refund effort has been extended to January...

Microsoft has created an add-in for Microsoft Office utilizes Stampery, a blockchain-based timestamping architecture that...

The development team behind the zcash project has released a new software update following the discovery of a denial-of-service...

Cryptocurrency exchange HitBTC has decided to send half of its bitcoins to Bitcoin Unlimited, then exchange them for Ethereum...

Nearly three-quarters of banks and asset managers see the consortium model as necessary for exploring distributed ledger tech,...

Bitcoin (BTC) extended upside movement against the US Dollar (USD) on Thursday to a weekly high of 1229, rallying the price of...

"I'm sort of being scooped on the details by people just working it out for themselves now." Despite kickstarting another fierce...

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Microsoft just sent out invites to members of the media for its big reveal of Xbox Project Scorpio, the upgraded console that will...

Australia’s central bank is involved with several initiatives focused on blockchain technology, public records show. In a published...