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Bitcoin Price to Hit $500,000 by 2030, Says Snapchat’s First Investor
Hold on, investors – you haven’t seen anything yet. According to Peter Smith, Blockchain CEO/co-founder, and Jeremy Liew,...
Greg Hunter Interviews Clif High On Fed Chaos – Fed Will Crash
By Greg Hunter Internet Data mining expert Clif High’s latest report says, ““The emotions at the moment are projecting a crash of...
Porsche Seeks Blockchain Companies for Startup Competition
German automaker Porsche is looking to explore blockchain technology. According to a company release, Porsche quietly unveiled a...
Bitcoin Users Should Activate Segwit If Miners Won’t
Samourai, the development team that consists of privacy activists building an open source bitcoin wallet platform called...
Why A Quiet Blockchain Consortium Could Soon Make Noise
Noelle Acheson is a 10-year veteran of company analysis, corporate finance and fund management, and a member of CoinDesk's product...
Rogue Indian Drug Agent Caught Stealing Bitcoins
An investigator from the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) of India has been accused of stealing bitcoins frozen from a 2015...
Chandler Guo Fails to Raise Money For Bitcoin Unlimited Pool, Segwit Support Evident
Major Chinese miner, bitcoin and Ethereum Classic investor Chandler Guo failed to meet the target of his US$32 million...
Coming Week: Stocks Mostly Bullish, Cryptocurrencies Going for New Records?
Asset Current Value Weekly Change S&P 500 2355 -0.30% DAX 12225 -0.71% WTI Crude Oil 52.23 2.78% GOLD 1257.50 0.81% Bitcoin...
As Bitcoin Fees Rise, OpenBazaar Looks at Altcoin Payments
OpenBazaar, an open-source market that allows buyers and sellers of goods to directly create shops and sell goods without...
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Bitcoin Hard Fork Isn’t Inevitable, Say Jeff Garzik and Charlie Lee
Will bitcoin really split in two? Can it be stopped? The questions, which have been on the minds of many as the block size...
How Deloitte’s Bitcoin Bistro Was Built
While Deloitte has long been an advisor on blockchain and cryptocurrencies, it took a step toward to practicing what it preaches...
Everex Explores Ethereum Based Global Remittances
Blockchain startup Everex, a blockchain remittance company, looks to leverage Ethereum to transform the remittance industry....
The Dark Days of Dogecoin: How Scammers and Bandits Brought Down Crypto’s Friendliest Currency
It was a bustling, summer day in San Francisco just like any other for Jackson Palmer, a marketing manager at Adobe that a year...
Bitcoin Exchange Bitfinex Sues Wells Fargo Over Embargoed Wire Transfers
A lawsuit filed Wednesday in Northern District of California federal court, San Francisco division could turn out to hold...
Analysis of Ethereum, Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash, Litecoin & Ripple
Ethereum Ethereum continues to drift downwards as it bounces off 2nd arc support. It still paints a (relatively) bullish long-term...
Bitcoin Startups BitPesa and Bitbond Deliver P2P Loans for African Businesses
Bitcoin startups BitPesa and Bitbond, based in Africa and Germany respectively, have announced a new initiative to bring...
Extension Block Proposal Stumbles In Attempt to End Bitcoin Block Size Debate
The block size debate has gotten to a point that some bitcoin observers think it could doom bitcoin. Bitcoin has defied all...
Here Comes the Pickaxe Race: Bitcoin Mining Jumps to GPU
An early bitcoin developer and entrepreneur, Alex Waters served as COO and CIO for bitcoin exchange startup BitInstant. Waters...
Study: 43% of Bitcoin Transactions Aren’t Processed after First Hour
A new study by the UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies reveals that “43% of the transactions are still not included in the...
The Hidden History of Bitcoin Unlimited
Paul Elliot-Ennis is a lecturer and assistant professor in management information systems in the College of Business, University...
Blockchain Tech Brings Promise for Forensic Applications
A report has come out saying that the blockchain presents great promise for the forensic community, which could cut down on...
Ethereum’s Difficulty Bomb: All Smoke, No Fire?
Sometime in the future (we can't be certain when), ethereum will likely switch from its proof-of-work consensus algorithm to...
Bitcoin Core Runs “Trolling Campaigns”, Says Lightning Network Developer
Joseph Poon, Lightning Network developer, has publicly stated today that Bitcoin Core has “a secret channel where they...
Electronics Retailer Bic Camera Begins Accepting Bitcoin
Bitcoin payment processor bitFlyer is partnering with a Japanese electronics retailer to test a new point-of-sale system (POS) that...
Time to watch Zcash | Hacked: Hacking Finance
I must confess to being a bit confused by the fact there seems to be more than one coin with the moniker “Z”. In the event that I...
Music Groups Band Together to Build Blockchain Rights Solution
Three societies tasked with protecting the intellectual property rights of musicians, writers and other content creators have...
Ethereum-Based Blockchain Solution for Digital Advertising to Fight Fraud
An LA-based company is using the blockchain for digital advertising to solve the issue of fraud, which can be seen through...
Ford built a baby bed that feels like it’s driving around the neighborhood
Some babies won’t sleep unless they get a nighttime cruise around the neighborhood, as many parents (my own included) can attest....
An Open Letter to Decentralized Protocols Looking for Growth
Jeremy Epstein is the CEO of Never Stop Marketing, a strategic marketing and consulting firm that focuses exclusively on helping...
Israeli Bomb Hoax Teen Made Millions in Bitcoin on the Dark Web
An Israeli teenager, alleged to have made over 100 bomb threats against Jewish Community Centers and day schools in the...
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...