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ICO Investments Pass VC Funding in Blockchain Market First
This article highlights findings from CoinDesk Research's new Q1 2017 State of Blockchain report, expanding on ICO and VC investment in...
Singapore Central Bank Uses Ethereum to Digitalize National Currency
The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), the country’s central bank and financial regulator, has released a new report detailing Project...
Service Restored!
The backend issue with romit.io has been resolved, and the machine is back up, as of 13:30 PST. We apologize for the issue, and thank you...
Fantastic News! The ATM is back up and operational!
Please note, the machine will be operating as “Buy Bitcoin” only, for this week, then we’ll be enabling the “Sell Bitcoin” option next...
State of Montana Funds Bitcoin Mine to Bolster Local Jobs
By Jamie Redman - This week Montana’s Governor Steve Bullock announced the distribution of $1,124,030 in economic development grants that...
Chinese Regulators Expected to Release Bitcoin Exchange Rules This Month
by Chuan Tian China’s central bank is reportedly expected to release new rules for bitcoin exchanges later this month. According to a...
Charts: Bitcoin’s Network is Objectively More Congested Than Ever
This article highlights findings from CoinDesk Research's new Q1 2017 State of Blockchain report, focusing on data around...
BTC.com Integrates With Kraken Direct To Enable In-Wallet Bitcoin Purchases
BTC.com, a Bitcoin wallet owned by Chinese Bitcoin firm Bitmain Technologies, has announced a new partnership with US-based cryptocurrency...
Colored Coins Introduces Open Source Banking Solution Bankbox; Announces Refocus, Rebrand Push
Colu, an Israeli blockchain startup and one of the developers of the Colored Coins protocol, has announced the open sourcing of Bankbox, a...
Lyft Plans Self-Driving Car Experiment in Boston | News & Opinion
Don't expect to get a ride from a self-driving car in Beantown just yet, though: the company still has to secure the necessary...
Toyota Wants to Store Driving Data in Blockchain | News & Opinion
Blockchain, the foundation of digital currencies like Bitcoin, could also come in handy to securely store ride sharing and...
Bitcoin Price Shoots Past $2,900 to Hit New All-Time High
The price of bitcoin has hit a new all-time high, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI). The market average has risen...
Newest Mercedes Factory Will Churn Out Batteries | News & Opinion
Eyeing Tesla, Mercedes plans to greatly ramp up battery production as it plans new electric car models and begins selling its...
Roborace Prototype Negotiates Streets of Paris | News & Opinion
Roborace hopes its car will one day have its own races, in which teams of software developers will compete against each other with...
Walmart: Blockchain Food Tracking Test Results Are ‘Very Encouraging’
Global retail giant Walmart hosted a presentation on its work with blockchain during an annual investor event last week. The...
Are Sidechains a Better Solution for Bitcoin’s Scaling Debate?
The thinking on sidechains might be shifting. While historically seen as an avenue for experimentation and increased operability on...
Bitcoin Solves Runaway Inflation by Undermining Trusted Third Parties
Sterlin Lujan Bankers, governments, and other trusted centralized organizations require society to be steeped in runaway inflation. These...
Crypto Currencies Show Global Reset Underway – Clif High
Internet data mining expert Clif High has just finished an in-depth dive on crypto currencies such as Bitcoin. High uses what he calls...
A Counterargument to the Value Proposition of Ripple’s XRP Token
Piotr Piasecki is a senior developer at Factom and an MSc in Computer Science who wrote a master thesis on the subject of bitcoin security...
Three Thoughts on the ‘Crypto Bubble’
Josh Hannah is a general partner at Matrix Partners, and the co-founder of Betfair, an online market for sports betting In this opinion...
Todays Top Blockchain News! Cryptocurrency News
TODAYS TOP BLOCKCHAIN NEWS Be Prepared, Spring Is Coming & Plans Are In The Works For The Next Event – Episode 1211b...
Top Blockchain Courses 2017!
If you don’t care how Blockchains work, and just want to learn how Blockchains can help you, then I would suggest this course. This course...
Learn How To Buy, Sell and Store Bitcoins! Bitcoin Beginner Courses
If you want to learn how to make money with Bitcoin then this course might interest you. This course shows you how you can get paid to...
Scientists Extracted These Faces From Monkey Brain Scans
By Avery Thompson When you see a face, what happens in your brain? How do your neurons process facial features to recognize a person...
Digital Scarcity Weekly Report
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Andresen is Back With a One-Man Security Project Inspired by Bitcoin Mishaps
Gavin Andresen, the former lead developer of bitcoin, is breaking his silence. While in recent months he's been more active on Twitter...
European Broker eToro Doubles Down On Cryptocurrencies
Image by eToro via FacebookeToro, an European brokerage firm operating a social trading platform and network, has unveiled the Blockchain...
HoloKit is like Google Cardboard for augmented reality
The revelation behind Google Cardboard was that if you put your phone close enough to your eyes, it’s basically a VR headset — but...
Who catches the IMSI catchers? Researchers demonstrate Stingray detection kit
IMSI catchers, devices used to spoof cell towers and intercept communications, are one of the most resented open secrets of law...
Google Home now available for pre-order in Canada
Google Home is now available to pre-order for Canadians. Google had announced at I/O this year that it would be coming to the...
The MB&F HM6 Alien Nation will attack your block
Fine timepieces are usually staid affairs. A little gold here, some enamel here, and a nice movement are enough to please some of...
The Future of Bitcoin Conference Comes to Arnhem Bitcoin City
Arnhem, The Netherlands, June 01, 2017 – The Future of Bitcoin Conference 2017, taking place in the Netherlands’ famous Bitcoin-friendly...
Snap’s Spectacles are now available in Europe
Snap’s Spectacles are going on a summer tour across Europe. Starting today, anyone in Europe can buy a pair of sunglasses on Snap’s...
The DJI Spark is fun, but not the mainstream drone we were promised
Our Spark is returning to DJI a bit worse for wear. As a rule, we try to send products back to companies in the same state they...
Meal ingredient delivery service Blue Apron is the next big consumer IPO
Blue Apron, which delivers ingredients to cook meals in your home and was among the companies whispered to go public this year, has...
Draper’s DragonflEye cyber-bug takes flight
Back in January we heard about Draper’s efforts to outfit a living dragonfly with a sort of solar-powered mind control backpack....
The reMarkable tablet is original and ambitious, unlike pretty much all the other ones
Years ago I called for a black and white computer, and that strange desire still lives within me today. While no one has yet taken...
All hail this autonomous stone-stacking robot
Robots are good at a few simple things. They can lift and carry huge objects, fly around like dragonflies, and murder our families...
Nvidia’s Shield just became an even better Plex box with Live TV
Media streaming app Plex has been around (and great) since before set-top streaming boxes were even properly a thing, but on...
With the Moto Z2 Play, modularity is Motorola’s new mainstream
Plenty dismissed modularity (the concept of making a phone’s innards swappable and upgradeable) the first time around. And for good...
Dojo smart home security gizmo goes on sale in the US
Security firm BullGuard has launched a consumer-focused Internet of Things product in the U.S., following its acquisition of...
New toolkit makes it easy to drag and drop your own robot
The old song tells us that leg bone is connected to the hip bone how are we to know if the articulated cam can connect to the...
The pleasure and the pain of the accessible smart home
Steven Aquino Contributor Steven Aquino is a freelance tech writer and iOS accessibility expert. More posts by this contributor:...
Essential is trying to build Android for the smart home
Andy Rubin’s appearance at the Code Conference last night went a ways toward answering some lingering questions about his new...
Study suggests last-mile drone delivery could lower carbon footprint
There’s always been talk about how drones could improve the emissions situation produced by our truck-based delivery...
With the KEYone, BlackBerry threads the needle on retro smartphone appeal
The BlackBerry KEYone, which goes on sale in its home country of Canada today, is a weird device. But it’s weird not because it...
$35 Million in 30 Seconds: Token Sale for Internet Browser Brave Sells Out
by Jonathan Keane Brave, the upstart web browser founded by Mozilla co-founder Brendan Eich, completed an initial coin offering (ICO)...
$236: Ethereum’s Ether Token Hits New All-Time Price High
The price of ether, the token that powers the ethereum blockchain, reached a new all-time high today, rising to what has become the...
Tablo launches its next-gen DVR for cord cutters, the more compact Tablo DUAL
Nuvyyo, the makers of the Tablo DVR for cord cutters who want to record free, over-the-air TV programming from their digital...
Bitcoin Returns to Rangebound Trading As Price Rollercoaster Subsides
Global bitcoin prices experienced little volatility today – a notable contrast to the sharp fluctuations that have taken place over...
The Turing Tumble lets you and your kids build real mechanical computers
When the lights go out and the entire world is thrust into the technological nether, we’ll need board games like Turing Tumble....
Intel’s super portable Compute Card could be your real pocket PC
Smartphones are already computers in our pockets, but Intel’s new Compute Card turns an actual PC into something you can take with...
Nice phone Essential, but why is there a hole in the screen?
Andy Rubin’s Essential smartphone has made its splashy, highly saturated debut, and the phone looks like a pretty stunning piece of...
World’s Largest Fintech Event Comes to Copenhagen
Money20/20, the world’s largest global event focused on payments and financial services innovation, is coming to Denmark from June 26 to...
Baseball on the Blockchain? One Fan’s Quest to Merge Two Passions
Josh Metnick is the former CTO of the Chicago Sun-Times, where he helped pilot the first cryptocurrency paywall. His current...
Asus skips robots at this year’s Computex event and flaunts super-thin laptops instead
Remember Zenbo, the cute humanoid robot that stole the show at Asus’ Computex press conference last year? Zenbo was absent from the...
SegWit Can Be Activated on Bitcoin When a Futures Market is Combined with a UASF
Note: If you’re unfamiliar with user-activated soft forks, read my previous article on the pros and cons of activating Segregated Witness...
Ethereum Powered P2P Energy Sharing Project Share & Charge Brings Blockchain to E-Mobility
Share&Charge, a decentralized marketplace that connects electric vehicle owners with private and public charging stations, has released...
Consensus 2017 Recap: Panels Cast Wide Net for Blockchain Discussions
CoinDesk’s Consensus 2017 blockchain conference was alive with activity last week, so don’t feel bad if you missed some of the...
The Biggest Main Stage Moments at Consensus 2017 Blockchain
While Consensus 2017 blockchain conference may be over, that doesn’t mean you have to miss out on the action that took place on the...
Is the Crypto Asset Class Finally Coming Into its Own?
It's no secret that bitcoin, ether and other cryptocurrencies have been on a tear. But, is this sharp uptick in value a sign that...
The Marc Newson Hourglass For Hodinkee shows us time is a nanoball
“Can anyone tell me what this is?” the teacher asked. Outside the rust rains had come again and the building reacted by assembling...
Bitcoin Price Rebounds to Near $2,640 Following Yesterday’s Losses
The price of bitcoin has rebounded after a notable fall yesterday that saw the digital currency lose over $400 to a low of around...
These flat-pack turtlebots will crawl across minefields for safety’s sake
The threat of minefields is an ongoing and horrifying one, and the duty of clearing them is as difficult as it is dangerous. All...
Feast your eyes on this 600-DPI e-paper screen
I have to say, I really like e-paper. And it’s come a long way since the crude early Kindles — nowadays you have e-readers that are...
Crypto Traders See Red As Profit Taking Fuels Price Pullback
The cryptocurrency markets are full of ups and downs – but perhaps there hasn't been a day in history quite like today. Just hours...
Bitcoin’s Price Tumbles More Than $400 From New High
Bitcoin prices fell sharply today after setting a new all-time high above $2,700 on the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI). The BPI...
This ultra-twee soft robotic gripper was inspired by Venus flytraps
The problem with tiny robots, if there can really be said to be one, is that you can’t put enough stuff on them. Cameras and motors...
Sony’s revamps its Digital Paper tablet with new screen and interface
Sony’s mammoth 13-inch Digital Paper tablet, essentially a huge Kindle you can write on, is still a pretty rare sight, but I’ve...
Bitcoin, Ether Set New All-Time Highs Amid Market Boom
The price of bitcoin and ether, the digital tokens that power the bitcoin and ethereum blockchains, reached new all-time highs...
Boeing will build DARPA’s XS-1 experimental spaceplane
You can hear the champagne corks popping here in Seattle as Boeing is awarded the contract to make DARPA’s cool experimental...
Circle with Disney raises $10 million for its parental control device for families
Circle Media, the company behind Circle with Disney – a device that helps parents enforce their home’s internet rules and...
DJI’s GO 4 control app adds automated flight modes to its new Spark drone
At today’s media event in NYC, DJI announced its new Spark drone, destined for the entry-level market as an everyday portable...
Xbox Game Pass launches June 1 with over 100 titles
Xbox One owners get a new reason to fire up their consoles on June 1: Xbox Game Pass, the download service Microsoft created to...
Robotic toymaker Sphero unveils Ultimate Lightning McQueen — a chatty, smartphone-controlled car
While Sphero has released a whole lineup of robotic, Internet-connected toys, it remains best-known for its BB-8 droid from Star...
8Bitdo’s retro Bluetooth controllers now work with Nintendo Switch
Need more controllers for your Nintendo Switch? If you already have some of 8Bitdo’s excellent Bluetooth, classic system-inspired...
The FAA gets a case study with a drone crash inside an MLB stadium
PSA: Flying your drone over a baseball stadium with tens of thousands of fans is a really, really bad (and probably illegal) idea....
Google’s huge 4K touchscreen whiteboard is now on sale for $5K
Google’s Jamboard is not a kitchen app for curating PB&J recipes – it’s a 55-inch digital whiteboard, with pen and touch input,...
Crunch Report | Microsoft Announces New Surface Pro
Microsoft announces new Surface Pro, Apple and Nokia settle patent dispute, Uber underpaid NYC drivers, Snapchat allows...
Alexa, don’t talk to strangers!
This story began when I was giving a TV interview about a recent incident where police in the U.S. obtained a search warrant for an...
Minibrew raises $2.8 million to help you make your own beer
Netherlands-based Minibrew has raised $2.8 million in seed funding after completing a successful $350,000 crowdfunding campaign to...
Keep on swimming with BIKI, the underwater drone
Meet BIKI, the world’s first wireless bionic underwater drone that captures high-quality footage. BIKI is just as cute as it it...
Apple and Nokia bury patent hatchet
Well that didn’t last long. A fresh patent spat between Nokia and Apple which fired up at the back end of last year when Cupertino...
131 Countries: BitPay Goes International With Bitcoin Prepaid Card
BitPay is expanding its prepaid bitcoin card offerings to more than 100 new countries. Unveiled today by BitPay chief commercial...
How to Invest in a Decentralized Economy?
Australian-born Michael Dunworth, CEO of Silicon Valley-based blockchain Wyre, has said that financial advisors should invest in...
ShapeShift Breaks New Ground With ‘Prism’ Digital Asset Portfolio Product
Amid a booming market for cryptocurrencies, Swiss startup ShapeShift is launching a new kind of exchange that specializes in the...
Daily Analysis: Ethereum and Bitcoin Skyrocket while Stocks Remain Stable
Monday Market Recap Asset Current Value Daily Change S&P 500 2381 0.05% DAX 12588 -0.40% WTI Crude Oil 51.08 0.73% GOLD 1256.00...
Analysis: Ripple, Dash, Stellar Lumens, Bytecoin & Gnosis
Ripple Ripple gave a false break (highlighted) when it closed above the arc. It was a buy signal which I tweeted, but then price...
Market Overview: 5 Things to Watch Next Week
Asset Current Value Weekly Change S&P 500 2380 -0.45% DAX 12638 -1.22% WTI Crude Oil 50.48 4.77% GOLD 1255.00 2.11% Bitcoin...
ICO Analysis: Much Ado About OneGram
Hacked received a tip about an upcoming ICO called OneGram. We began our investigation and immediately noticed more than one red...