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A new guitar is 30% lighter thanks to multiple weird tricks
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could make a lighter guitar, they didn’t stop to think if they should....
Did One Tweet Make Litecoin’s Price Drop 20%?
Litecoin prices fell roughly 20% in less than 24 hours, and the culprit is apparently a single tweet. The digital currency declined...
BitMEX Launches a Segwit and Bigger Bitcoin Blocks Prediction Market
BitMEX, a digital currencies exchange that offers 100x futures on bitcoin, ethereum and other currencies, today announced...
Blockchain Low Among Corporate Investment Priorities, PwC Finds
'Big Four' consulting firm and accountancy PwC has published a detailed report on the current state of blockchain at large...
Litecoin Price Falls after Segwit Confusion; Charlie Lee Explains Activation
Litecoin has tripled in the past week, rising from $4 to above $12. The main, if not sole reason, appears to be its expected...
Microsoft’s Surface Pro 5 said to move to Intel Kaby Lake processors
Microsoft’s hardware lineup, including Surface Book and Surface Pro devices, are due for a refresh, but we still haven’t heard that...
The ‘Big Block’ Bitcoin Movement is Embracing Bcoin
Over the course of bitcoin's two-year scaling debate, a few major alternatives have grown to challenge the network's most popular...
Op-ed: Blockstream Calls a Bitcoin Mining Optimization an “Attack”
Gregory Maxwell, Blockstream’s CTO, has made an astonishing statement in the mailing list regarding an algorithmic...
10 Insurance Firms Test Blockchain for Insurance in China
A group of insurance companies has completed a new blockchain trial in China. In a Sina Finance report, the news agency revealed...
Australia Delays Promise to End Bitcoin Double Tax
Over a year after the Australian government promised to put an end to the double taxation of bitcoin purchases, authorities...
TMX Selects Hyperledger For Blockchain Voting Prototype
Financial services firm TMX Group yesterday became the latest to join the heated race to provide stockholders with blockchain...
Newsflash: Bitcoin Price Run Reaches $1,200
The bullish bitcoin price trend continues in a strong start to April as price breaches $1,200 on the Bitstamp Price Index...
Transcript: Phil Schiller, Craig Federighi and John Ternus on the state of Apple’s pro Macs
Apple invited a handful of journalists to Cupertino to talk about the future of the Mac platform. The Mac Pro is receiving a minor...
An Ethereum Voting Scheme That Doesn’t Give Away Your Vote
Voting on the blockchain sounds like a brilliant idea, promising to eliminate fraud while providing complete transparency to the...
Cryptocurrency Analysis: Litecoin surges again
Bitcoin My last column discussed the possibility of a close above the 1st arc pair yielding a buy signal. As it turned out, while...
Stellar echoes, Venusian automatons and more gain NASA moonshot funding
NASA has announced the recipients of its most recent round of highly experimental projects it deems promising enough to fund. These...
Samsung Targets Blockchain Consortia With Nexledger Tech
Global technology giant Samsung today unveiled its Nexledger blockchain platform, alongside a series of other announcements. The...
ICO Analysis: Cosmos “Blockchain of Blockchains” – Should You Bet on the Fundraiser?
Cosmos is a novel answer to “sidechains,” which aims to enable users to traverse a galaxy of blockchains with ease. One...
The leaked DJI Spark looks to be the Mavic Pro’s little bother
DJI appears to be about to launch a drone even smaller than the Mavic Pro. Supposedly called the Spark, pics of the little drone...
Bitcoin Hardware Maker Avalon Calls for Mining Industry Changes
In the wake of allegations that bitcoin hardware manufacturers may be engaging in unfair practices, one of the industry's largest...
Litecoin Hits $11 Amid SegWit Expectations in Near 3-Year High
Litecoin prices are up nearly 30% in a 24-hour period with price pushing beyond $10 per coin amid anticipation of the...
How Osmo decides to make its tangible, high-tech toys
A huge number of toys today include high-tech and interactive components that keep kids in front of screens. But when it comes to...
Litecoin Price Nears Two-Year High As SegWit Hopes Rise
Litecoin prices continued a recent rally today, pushing the digital currency to its highest value in more than one year. Far from a...
Decred Benefits From Bitcoin Impasse, Joins Altcoins’ Rise
The current impasse in the Bitcoin community is fueling the rapid growth of some altcoins, as it has been the current drift....
About this stabbing machine | TechCrunch
Thank you for joining me, ladies, gentlemen. Researchers have created a “stabbing machine,” with which they intend to “simulate...
Cosmos – Raises Over 18 million dollars in 3 hours
The Internet of Blockchains Designed to connect all blockchains seamlessly together as a hub. Watch video for an overview ...
Bitcoin’s New Controversy: The AsicBoost Allegations Explained
Bitcoin is abuzz with fresh controversy following an inflammatory new post by Bitcoin Core developer and Blockstream CTO Greg...
“Bitmain Has Never Used AsicBoost in Production”, Says Jihan Wu
Jihan Wu, co-founder of bitcoin mining equipment maker Bitmain, has rebutted a statement made yesterday by Gregory Maxwell...
The LG G6 handles like a dream
LG smashed it out of the park with the G6. The new device (on sale for R14 630 from 7 April) is the brand’s seat at the main table,...
YouTube TV Goes Live
Google’s Biggest Swipe at Comcast Yet YouTube TV has arrived, and with it the potential to change how television works....
The Xbox One Scorpio is a six-teraflop gaming beast
Microsoft couldn’t wait until E3 in June to unveil the Scorpio. So the company shared some details with Digital Foundry. And we now...
Use or Speculation: What’s Driving Ripple’s Price to All-Time Highs?
Chart via Coinmarketcap.comEven by cryptocurrency's often exaggerated market standards, the price of XRP has been on a tear of...
IBM Launches Blockchain Platform for US Oil Trade
Technology giant IBM has developed a blockchain trade finance platform alongside a bank and a commodity trading house to...
Intel Demos Seafood Tracking on Sawtooth Lake Blockchain
The ocean-to-table movement is getting a high-tech helping hand. Intel has just revealed a public demo that finds it showcasing how...
Samsung SDS Unveils Blockchain Platform ‘Nexledger’
Samsung SDS, the IT subsidiary of electronics giant Samsung has launched Nexledger, its blockchain platform for enterprises...
Ethereum Prediction Market Project Gnosis Sets ICO Launch Date
An ethereum prediction market project is moving forward toward its public debut. Following its beta launch last fall, Gnosis, now a...
ViaBTC to Open Bitcoin Exchange After Raising $200,000 in Funding Led by Bitmain
One of the biggest bitcoin mining pools, ViaBTC, is to open a CNY/BTC exchange in around two months with a USD/BTC exchange...
Decentralizing Central Banks: How R3 Envisions the Future of Fiat
The future of central banks could be either on an open, permissionless blockchain or a closed, permissioned distributed ledger,...
No Blocksize Increase Needed for Years, Argues Bitcoin Core Dev
A Reddit discussion on increasing the bitcoin block size clarified why many are opposed to the bitcoin hard fork. A poster...
Pebble preps for the end of its smartwatch services
The end is near for Pebble. The latest update to Pebble watches should extend their life a bit longer by removing the dependency on...
Building ‘The Blockchain’: Developers Aren’t Giving Up on Big Ambitions
Even as bitcoin's block size debate rages on, enterprising developers are looking beyond the infighting to focus attention on...
Schism Developing Between Lightning Network and Bitcoin Core Developers
The latest developments in the Cryptowar are what appears to be a developing schism between some Lightning Network developers...
Swiss system ups security and reliability of finger-based biometrics
Biometrics may not be the perfect solution for security, but they can be useful — as long as they’re robust and well thought out....
Litecoin Moves Within 5% of its SegWit Activation Threshold
The litecoin network appears to be on the cusp of enacting a technical upgrade that would boost the capacity of its network. At...
Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Completes Reimbursing Customers For 2016 Hack Losses
Bitfinex recently completed reimbursing customers who had suffered losses in its August 2016 hack and 119,756 bitcoins...
Philly Fed President Praises Blockchain’s Authentication Abilities
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia weighed in on the possibilities of blockchain tech in a new speech this...
9 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Buy with Bitcoin
If you’re new to Bitcoin, you might be wondering what you can spend your cryptocurrency on. The answer might surprise you....
Taser rebrands as Axon and offers free body cameras to any police department
Taser is now Axon. The brand has been a household word for years, but the company felt it was time to leave that identity behind...
Blockchain Land Registry Tech Gets Test in Brazil
Blockchain startup Ubitquity has announced it will overhaul the land registrar offices of two Brazilian municipalities by embedding...
Investment Recommendations April 5th | Hacked: Hacking Finance
EUR/USD: Short-Term Sell (Update) EUR/USD, 4-Hour Chart Analysis The pair has been consolidating after the sell-off last week,...
Decentralizating Central Banks: How R3 Envisions Future Fiat Currencies
The future of central banks could be either on an open, permissionless blockchain or a closed, permissioned distributed ledger,...
UK Looks to Strengthen FinTech Ties with India
A UK envoy that includes politicians, central bank officials, and prominent FinTech executives are in India to discuss trade...
Blockchain Capital Releases New Details on Ethereum ICO Token
An investment memorandum published yesterday provides new details about an effort from venture capital firm Blockchain Capital to...
Japan Accepts Bitcoin as Legal Payment Method. What’s Next?
Legislation making bitcoin and virtual currencies legal currency took effect this month in Japan. The country’s Financial...
The Gold Rush Begins: The Day Bitcoin Topped the US Dollar
One of bitcoin's earliest angel investors, Roger Ver has backed a number of startups including BitPay, Purse and ShapeShift, and is...
Singapore Registers the Litecoin Foundation as Public Company Limited
The Litecoin Foundation, a non-profit organization headed by Litecoin creator Charlie Lee has been successfully incorporated...
Zcash Enters Top 10 Cryptocurrencies By Market Cap
The privacy-oriented digital currency zcash became one of the 10 largest digital currencies by market capitalization on 4th April,...
Top Energy Executive Joins UK Blockchain Startup
Mainstream energy executives are getting into blockchain. A former boss at utility company Npower joined a blockchain startup...
Blockchain Startup Wyre Acquires Remitsy for China Market Push
Blockchain payments startup Wyre has acquired industry startup Remitsy in a cash and equity deal of an undisclosed amount. With the...
Tech Writer Warns The Uninitiated: Don’t Own Bitcoin
David Pogue David Pogue, the founder of Yahoo Tech and a writer for Yahoo Finance, advises viewers that bitcoin is worthy of...
Polish Ministry Backs Blockchain Best Practices Proposal
The Polish Ministry of Digital Affairs has adopted a new proposal designed to allow the local blockchain industry to self-regulate....
Bitcoin Blitzes Beyond $1,150, Prices Up 8% in April
Bitcoin prices scaled above $1,150 on Tuesday, reaching a high of $1,162 on the Bitstamp Price Index (BPI) to continue a...
GAW Miners SEC Case Set for 2018 Court Date
A February 2018 trial date has been set for a civil trial pitting the SEC against infamous cryptocurrency entrepreneur Homero...
Op-ed: A New Bitcoin Blocksize Proposal Goes Nowhere
I woke up today to what appeared to be good news. Joseph Poon, a Lightning Network developer, Stephen Pair from BitPay,...
SureFlap has an app-controlled pet door in the pipeline
Finally coming to the pet tech space this summer: an app-controlled cat door that will tell you when your pet has left the...
CoinDesk Launches ‘Bitcoin Milestones’ Series With Author Brian Patrick Eha
CoinDesk, the leader in blockchain news, is excited to announce the launch of its first-ever essay series, in partnership with...
1Hash Bitcoin Pool Comes out against Bitcoin Unlimited
While it briefly appeared that Bitcoin Unlimited might actually activate, the chances now seem slim as a relatively new...
Why the US Department of Health Just Couldn’t Ignore Blockchain
A spat of bitcoin ransomware threats last year kept many US government agencies from holding public positions on blockchain. That's...
Estonian Blockchain ‘Stock Exchange’ Funderbeam to Use €2M Investment toward Asian Expansion
Estonian blockchain startup Funderbeam has announced a €2 million investment by Japanese investor and incubator Mistletoe...
Broadridge is Building a Global Blockchain for Stockholder Voting
As 'proxy season' approaches, public companies around the world are preparing to send out countless measures to stock holders who,...
Cryptocurrency Market Cap Soars to All-Time High Near $28 Billion
A bullish 2017 for bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies has helped spur the overall cryptocurrency market cap through a series...
Managed Fund Titans Eye 2018 for Blockchain MVP Launch
An international consortium of asset managers is working to bring 401k plans, mutual funds and pension funds to the blockchain....
Litecoin Price Doubles, Thanks to SegWit?
Litecoin has more than doubled in the past five days, rising from around $4.30 to just under $9.50 after months of no...
The Sonos Playbase is a home theater in a slab
Sonos makes some of the best whole-home wireless audio gear I’ve used, bar none. I’ve tried Bluetooth and Zigbee models, wired and...
Purse Proposal Touts Extension Blocks as Bitcoin Scaling Solution
Bitcoin startup Purse is spearheading work on a new solution it believes could break the network's long-simmering scaling gridlock....
Official: Arizona Law Recognizes Blockchain Signatures and Smart Contracts
The Arizona governor has signed a bill that officially recognizes blockchain signatures and smart contracts. Just last week,...
Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Buys Back All Remaining ‘Hack Credit’ Tokens
Digital currency exchange Bitfinex today announced it has bought back all of the remaining cryptographic tokens it used to...
Litecoin has Given a Buy Signal | Hacked.com
So many altcoins have gone vertical in the past couple of weeks that I have had to adjust my scales in almost all cases, to...
Apple Fellow Rich Page on ‘stealing jobs’ and Chowbotics’ salad-making robots
When we first wrote about Chowbotics, their salad-making robot which was then just a prototype stirred a bit of controversy. The...
Litecoin Sees Spike in Support for Scaling Solution SegWit
A scaling solution originally developed for the bitcoin blockchain may soon get its first trial run on litecoin. The percentage of...
Op-Ed: Are Businesses Ditching Bitcoin for Ethereum?
Bitcoin’s price has remained relatively stable, but it has been quite some time since a new bitcoin-based business or project...
Bitmain Subsidiary Opens New Bitcoin Mining Pool to Public
An R&D division of mining giant Bitmain has launched a new pool. Having mined its first block as part of a closed beta three...
Kim Dotcom’s Bitcache Preview Reveals Built-in Bitcoin Payments
An early video by internet entrepreneur and bitcoin advocate Kim Dotcom has revealed a brief peek at his Bitcache platform...
‘Confidential Assets’: Blockstream Reveals New Bitcoin Privacy Tech
Bitcoin startup Blockstream has unveiled new technology for shielding data on a blockchain. Expanding on an old technique to hide...
Bitcoin in India: Legal or Illegal? Govt Could Declare Verdict in April
According to a report, the Indian government could declare its position on the legality of bitcoin, the world’s most...
A look back on the golden age of Atari gaming
This excerpt is from Jamie Lendino’s Breakout: How Atari 8-Bit Computers Defined a Generation, an amazing book that details with an...
Blockchain’s Trust Paradox – CoinDesk
Noelle Acheson is a 10-year veteran of company analysis, corporate finance and fund management, and a member of CoinDesk's product...
Bitcoin Price Surges to $1,130 in Positive April Start
Bitcoin price has made marked gains in the early days of April as prices reach a high of $1,133 on a global average, gaining...
Bitcoin Prices Up Over 3% Today, Top $1,140
Bitcoin prices have surged today, rising over 3% overall since the start of trading and at one stage topping $1,141. At the time of...
Will a Bitcoin Hard Fork Create Two Coins? – Bitcoin Unlimited Explained | Hacked.com
The past two weeks have been some of the most intense in bitcoin’s history as Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Unlimited went head to...