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China’s Biggest Blockchain Backer Launches Startup Accelerator
A blockchain venture backed by Chinese conglomerate Wanxiang Group has launched a new startup accelerator. The kick-off, which...
Why the ICO Model’s Success Could Be Its Downfall
Noelle Acheson is a 10-year veteran of company analysis, corporate finance and fund management, and is a member of CoinDesk's...
6 Top Trends From CoinDesk’s 2017 State of Blockchain Report
CoinDesk Research's 2017 State of Blockchain report summarizes key trends, data and events in the public and enterprise blockchain...
Dubai Government Claims Title of Blockchain’s ‘Global Capital’
"We believe that Dubai is the global capital of blockchain. We know how to execute and we're creating the ecosystem." That...
Long Live Dogecoin: Defiant Developers Just Won’t Let the Joke Die
'Such crypto. Very currency. Wow.' So went the enthusiastic, disjointed dialogue of the 'Doge', the cute Shiba Inu dog turned...
The Trouble With Fintech (Or Why ‘Now’ is the Time for DLT)
Chris DeRose is a software developer, bitcoin evangelist and the controversial co-host of the podcast Bitcoin Uncensored. In this...
The World’s Largest Shipping Company Tracks Cargo on a Blockchain
The Danish shipping giant Maersk has revealed the completion of its first live blockchain trial, aimed at simplifying the way in...
Why You Won’t See Bitcoin in a Casino Anytime Soon
As evidenced by a Google search for 'bitcoin casino', bitcoins and gambling go together like two pedals on the same bike. Bitcoin’s...
A (Short) Guide to Blockchain Consensus Protocols
We hear plenty of talk of how public blockchains are going to change the world, but to function on a global scale, a shared public...
Ether Prices Surge Under Shadow of Bitcoin and Dash
The price of ether, the cryptocurrency of the ethereum network, has surged over the last week, rising to the most in more than...
Roger Ver Bets Against SegWit Bitcoin Upgrade at Anarchapulco
The beach-side city of Acapulco recently played host a bitcoin scaling debate, which saw personally-charged moments amidst the...
Bitfinex Adds Market Trading For Dash (Again)
Exchange Bitfinex platform has added new markets for dash, the digital currency that has seen big price moves this week. The...
Fed Governor Voices Caution on Central Bank Digital Currencies
Central bank-issued digital currencies could stifle private-sector payments innovation, a senior Federal Reserve official said...
Russian Payments Firm Qiwi Launches Blockchain Subsidiary
Russian payments firm Qiwi has created a new subsidiary that will focus on blockchain development and consulting. The group, called...
Texas Lawmaker Proposes Constitutional Right to Own Bitcoin
A Texas lawmaker has put forward a proposed constitutional amendment that would protect the right to own and use digital currencies...
Australian Government Commits $350k to Blockchain Standards Effort
Australia’s government has committed funding to develop blockchain standards in the country, while a new roadmap for the initiative...
A Framework for Valuing Crypto Tokens
Sid Kalla is CTO at fintech firm Acupay, and a freelance journalist specializing in financial technology, bitcoin and...
Blockchain Adoption Optimism Suffers Setback at DTCC Fintech Event
A lot has changed since the DTCC last year held its first ever Blockchain Symposium. Perhaps the most obvious shift is the name...
Beyond Immutability: Ethereum Classic Maps a Way Forward
"We think we're the real ethereum." In a recent talk at CoinDesk's developer-only conference Construct, ethereum classic developer...
Blockchain Startup HAW Reveals Bitcoin Lending Market Concept
HAW Technologies has developed a bitcoin-based lending market concept, recently presented at an event hosted by Japan’s central...
Bitcoin Traders Still Bullish As Price Nears $1,300 Highs
Bitcoin traders remain optimistic that the digital currency's price will increase, even as it continues to reach new all-time...
The $45-Dollar Question: What’s Going On With the Price of Dash?
Some have called it scam, others a cutting-edge digital currency. Either way, the price of dash has surged in recent days. The...
North Dakota Bitcoin Bill Fails in House Vote
A bill that would have enabled North Dakota lawmakers to more closely study the issue of whether to regulate digital currencies...
The Lack of Blockchain Talent is Becoming An Industry Concern
The alleged lack of available talent for blockchain industry jobs was high on the agenda at the DTCC's Fintech Symposium, held at...
The Price of Bitcoin is Now Worth One Ounce of Gold
Bitcoin's price has reached parity with the per-ounce spot price of gold, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI). The...
Reuters: Self-Proclaimed ‘Satoshi’ Craig Wright Still Seeking Bitcoin Patents
Craig Wright, the Australian academic and businessman who previously claimed to be pseuduonymous bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto,...
Canada’s Scotiabank Completes Blockchain Trial for Trade Reports
Blockchain services firm AlphaPoint has completed a proof-of-technology trial of its blockchain platform for Canada's Scotiabank....
Ethereum Spam Attacks Are Back – This Time on the Test Network
Ethereum is under attack again. Following denial of service attacks on the ethereum network last year, which were stopped with a...
47 Banks Complete DLT Cloud Pilot With Ripple Tech
A consortium of 47 banks has completed a distributed ledger technology (DLT) pilot that is now set to move to production in 2017....
Bitcoin Price Sets New All-Time High for Second Day in a Row
Bitcoin prices keep hitting new all-time highs, buoying the current rally's staying power. The cryptocurrency's price reached new...
Thailand’s National Stock Exchange is Building a Blockchain Market
Thailand's national stock exchange is reportedly planning to launch a blockchain-based market through which startups can raise...
Kraken Buys Out Digital Currency Data Portal Cryptowatch
Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken has announced the acquisition of market portal Cryptowatch, a site that provides real-time market...
230 Million: Ethereum Classic Community Backs Limit on Total Tokens
The community of companies and startups supporting the ethereum classic blockchain is planning to put a cap on the total amount of...
CoinDesk Research Releases New Data on Blockchain ‘ICOs’
This article highlights findings from CoinDesk Research's new 'Spotlight Study' on blockchain token sales (or ICOs). Based on a...
Indian Central Banker: Potential of Blockchain Currencies ‘Overstated’
The potential of digital currencies like bitcoin is "being overstated", a senior official for the Reserve Bank of India said in a...
Disruption Not Included? Ethereum Alliance Shows Blockchain Shift
Startups, by definition, seek disruption – but that age-old trend is being bucked by developments in the blockchain...
Bank of Japan Official: DAO-Style Problems Could Dampen DLT
An official from Japan’s central bank invoked failed ethereum project The DAO in a speech yesterday, suggesting that reoccurrences...
UBS, PwC Back Blockchain Group in Switzerland’s ‘Crypto Valley’
A new blockchain-focused nonprofit organization has launched in Switzerland with the aim of promoting and researching the tech....
Airbitz.co – A Convenient, Stress-free and Protected Bitcoin Wallet
Airbitz is a mobile Bitcoin Wallet creating extraordinary levels of confidentiality, security, and decentralization exceptionally...
$1,210: Bitcoin Price Hits New All-Time High
Bitcoin is showing no sign of dropping below its all-time highs. After trading above $1,000 for more than two weeks, the bitcoin...
Big Corporates Unite for Launch of Enterprise Ethereum Alliance
A group of global enterprises representing the oil and gas industry, the financial sector and software development firms will...
Blockchain Startup Selected for Airline Trade Group Awards
An airline industry trade group, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), has revealed that a blockchain startup will be...
‘Big Four’ Firm EY Begins Blockchain ID Platform Rollout
'Big Four' accounting firm EY has revealed it is rolling out a new identity management platform based on blockchain tech for an...
BTCC Offers Fee-Free Dollar Trading for Post-PBoC Boost
BTCC, one of China's 'Big Three' digital currency exchanges, has announced a new promotion that will see fees cut on US...
Microsoft Adds JPMorgan’s ‘Quorum’ Blockchain to Azure Platform
Microsoft has added JPMorgan’s Quorum project to its blockchain tool box. Speaking at the launch of the Enterprise Ethereum...
Vitalik Buterin Calls for Collaboration at Enterprise Ethereum Launch
In a televised speech at the launch of the Enterprise Ethereum Alliance today, the platform's creator, Vitalik Buterin, delivered a...
Former UK Prime Minister David Cameron Praises Blockchain Tech
Former British prime minister David Cameron has said that bitcoin and blockchain technology have the potential to improve both...
Central Banks Back Hyperledger Blockchain Project
The Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston are among 11 new members of the Linux Foundation-led Hyperledger...
Central Banks Back Hyperledger Blockchain Project
The Bank of England and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston are among 11 new members of the Linux Foundation-led Hyperledger...
Bitfortip Lets Users Earn Bitcoin By Answering Questions
By Kevin Helms, Bitfortip is a platform that lets users earn bitcoin by answering questions or providing...
Learning Cryptography Through Bitcoin’s Proof of Existence Feature
By Jamie Redman, Proof-of-existence (PoE) is a utility built into the Bitcoin blockchain that allows anyone to...
Monax to Bring Ethereum Tech to Hyperledger Blockchain Group
By Michael del Castillo, Blockchain startup Monax has joined Hyperledger, the Linux Foundation-led...
Overtaking Banking in the Race to Blockchain
By Noelle Acheson, This past week, European banks ING and Société Générale unveiled a blockchain platform designed...
What Bitcoin Traders Should Know About Technical Analysis
By Charles Bovaird, While bitcoin traders have many tools they can use to evaluate the cryptocurrency...
Coinbase Just Stopped Serving Bitcoin Customers in Hawaii
By Stan Higgins, Digital currency exchange Coinbase said today that it will stop serving customers in Hawaii...
The Bitcoin Advertising Ecosystem in 2017
By Jamie McCormick, As the bitcoin and blockchain companies develop in a multitude of directions, many start-up and incumbent products and...
Who Broke the SHA1 Algorithm (And What Does It Mean for Bitcoin)?
By Corin Faife, The cryptography world has been buzzing with the news that researchers at Google and CWI Amsterdam have succeeded in...
Malta’s Prime Minister Says Europe Should Become the Bitcoin Continent
By Kevin Helms, The Prime Minister of Malta, Dr. Joseph Muscat, spoke on Thursday at the CEPS Ideas Lab event where he proposed that...
Bitspark Enters $20 Billion Pakistani Remittance Market
By Kevin Helms, Money transfer platform Bitspark announced on Wednesday that they have expanded their service to Pakistan, a $20.3 billion...
How Specifically The EU & US Intend To Tax Your Bitcoin
By Wendy McElroy, For the EU and US, the Wild West days of bitcoin are over. 2017 will be the year of bitcoin regulation and taxation...
Unanimous Vote Advances Blockchain Bill in Arizona Legislature
Stan Higgins, Lawmakers in the lower chamber of Arizona’s legislature have unanimously advanced a bill that enshrine blockchain signatures...
New Ethereum Proposal Aims to Supercharge Smart Contracts
By Alyssa Hertig, Newly released research shows that top-layer networks, usually trumpeted as the future of bitcoin and ethereum scaling,...
‘Top 10’ Blockchains Report Concludes: Now is the Time to Pivot
By Michael del Castillo, Research and advisory firm Aite Group is preparing to release a detailed comparison of what it deems the 'Top 10'...
Bitcoin Price Sets New All-Time High $1,200
By Stan Higgins Bitcoin prices hit a high of $1,172.09, according to the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index (BPI) – surpassing a level first set...
It’s Time to Take AI Seriously
By Erin Griffith There’s an easy way to tell when the hype around a technology trend has peaked. Ask yourself the...
Uber’s Self-Driving Cars Arrive in Arizona
By Angela Moscaritol, he rollout in Tempe comes after Uber pulled its self-driving fleet off the streets of San...
Automaker Daimler AG Joins Hyperledger Blockchain Project
By Garrett Keirns, Daimler AG, the parent company of luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz, has joined the Linux Foundation...
Decentralized Web Gets Visual Aid With New Blockstack Explorer
By Garrett Keirns, Blockstack has released a new visual tool that gives a window into its budding bitcoin-powered internet. The blockchain...
The new world IS more than just INTERESTING
The Future? In 1998, Kodak had 170,000 employees and sold 85% of all photo paper worldwide. All medical X-rays used Kodak film. Camera's,...
Can the Bitcoin Economy Help Greeks Hide Their Wealth?
By Jamie Redman, Greece continues to suffer from economic turmoil as European lenders and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) struggle...
An Alliance Forms Under China’s New Bitcoin Regulation
By Jamie Redman, A big shift is happening in China concerning bitcoin trading. After the country’s central bank implemented new regulatory...
Rebranding The DAO: The Controversial Blockchain Concept is Back
By Alyssa Hertig, It looks like we haven't seen the last of leaderless blockchain-based companies. Despite the spectacular demise of The...
3 Smart Contract Misconceptions
By Olivier Rikken, One of the most promising developments in blockchain is the idea of smart contracts. First detailed by...
Bitcoin Upgrade Lumino Introduces a New Approach to Scalability
By Kevin Helms, Bitcoin’s block size debate may be getting a new option called Lumino. The proposed Bitcoin scaling solution will...
Bitcoin Hash Functions Explained
Corin Faife, Anyone with an interest in bitcoin will have heard the phrase 'cryptographic hash function' at some time or other. But what...
Secretive ‘Enterprise Ethereum’ Project at EDCON 2017
By Alyssa Hertig, “Like many others, we’re a part of R3. Most of you are probably thinking ‘what for’?” So said RCI Bank head of...
Can Blockchain Make Music Great Again?
By Pete Rizzo, Blockchain technology can't write songs or play instruments – at least not yet. But, it might be able to ensure that those...
A Closer Look at How and Why Bitcoin is Traded P2P in Russia and Venezuela
By Kyle Torpey, Localbitcoins saw a roughly 85 percent increase in global volume over the course of 2016, and the growth seen by this...
The Big Mistakes Enterprises Are Making on Blockchain
By Arno Laeven, Let's just get it out there: using blockchain in an enterprise environment is like trying to fit a square peg in a round...
3 Big Blockchain Ideas MIT is Working on Right Now
By Alyssa Hertig, When one of the world's most prestigious universities announces it will explore a controversial and often misunderstood...
Driving meets art in the Pagani Huayra Roadster
By Scott Collie, If there was an art gallery dedicated to showcasing beautiful cars, it would need to keep a whole floor clear for Pagani....
Hivemind, Bloq Developer Paul Sztorc Discusses Bitcoin & Sidechains
By Jamie Redman, Bitcoin.com chatted with the Chief Scientist of prediction market protocol Hivemind. Paul Sztorc, who also works with the...
Crypto Traders Flock to Altcoins as Bitcoin Volume slows down
By Charles Bovaird, With many crypto traders sitting on the sidelines and awaiting news from China, volumes for bitcoin, the market's most...
Commonwealth Bank Plans More Blockchain Investments in 2017
By Garrett Keirns, One of Australia’s ‘Big Four’ banks has committed to further blockchain investments as it steps up its overall IT...
EU Commission: We Plan to Boost Support for Blockchain Projects
By Stan Higgins, The executive arm of the European Union government is planning to expand its work on blockchain, an official said last...
The Next Wave of Ethereum Applications is Almost Here
By Alyssa Hertig, While critics have long taken aim at ethereum for a lack of production projects, a new wave of decentralized...
Swift Reveals Future Global Payment Tech – Blockchain Not Included
Michael del Castillo, After months of testing, Swift, the interbank payments platform that connects 11,000 global banks, has formally...
Former Governor of the People’s Bank of China`If you want to kill Bitcoin…
... it will be an impossible task´ By Justin Connell, “Bitcoin was built on a platform without national boundaries,” the Former Governor...
How Humans Now Use the Blockchain to Declare Love and Marriage
By Justin Connell, “For better or worse, til’ death do us part, because the blockchain is forever”, says David Mondrus about the marriage...
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...