2017

Bankex researchers announced test results this month from Plasma, a second-layer scaling solution for Ethereum developed earlier this year by co-founder Vitalik Buterin and Lightning co-author Joseph

Reuters and other news organizations published false reports over the past 24 hours claiming that South Korea's government plans to ban or shut down cryptocurrency exchanges operating in the country.

The government of Curaçao, a Dutch Caribbean island with a regulated casino industry, has approved Edgeless as a licensed casino operator. Edgeless is a decentralized application built on the Ethereum

A Zug-headquartered venture called Reserve Currency Solutions SA has unveiled Globcoin, a blockchain-powered system designed to democratize cross-border payments and currency management. The platform

Two major US exchanges have submitted six bitcoin ETF applications to federal regulators this month. The Chicago Board Options Exchange and the New York Stock Exchange filed the applications with the

Loomia has just inked a collaboration with L.L. Bean, bringing smart textile technology leveraging blockchain to one of America's oldest apparel makers. The innovation allows manufacturers to understa

The digital asset sector experienced a substantial decline on Friday, with investors pulling roughly a quarter of the market's total value. The worldwide cryptocurrency market capitalization contracte

The OPSkins virtual gaming marketplace has begun listing CryptoKitties, the Ethereum-powered phenomenon captivating players with collectible digital felines. Through the platform, enthusiasts can inst

Edward Snowden has shifted his focus to zero-knowledge proofs as the path forward for private cryptocurrency transactions. The former CIA employee and renowned whistleblower backs Zcash's cryptographi

Investing.com, the number one rated financial markets app on Google Play for three consecutive years, serves over five million traders and investors. The company just released a dedicated cryptocurren

Ripple's XRP token breached the $1 psychological barrier on December 21, 2017, reaching an intraday high of $1.38 as Asian traders drove the cryptocurrency to new all-time highs.

Coinbase announced support for Bitcoin Cash on December 19, 2017, enabling buying and selling of the Bitcoin fork whilst facing insider trading allegations after suspicious pre-launch price movement.

Theta Labs, the video streaming subsidiary of esports platform SLIVER.tv, brought in $12 million through a token pre-sale aimed at creating a decentralized, blockchain-backed network for streaming vid

CME Group has begun Bitcoin futures trading on the Globex platform, with the January 2018 contract opening above $20,000 before settling at lower levels.

Joseph Lubin, a co-founder of Ethereum, appeared on Bloomberg Markets with hosts Julia Chatterley and Scarlet Fu to discuss Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the initial coin offering market. The Ethereum camp

Woori Bank, South Korea's third-largest commercial bank behind Shinhan and Kookmin, has decided to shut down cryptocurrency exchange accounts. The Hankyoreh reported last week that the bank will close

Bitcoin surged past $19,000 on December 17, 2017, approaching the $20,000 psychological barrier as cryptocurrency markets experienced exceptional volatility during the year's final weeks.

Colu, an Israeli startup building localized digital currencies on blockchain, secured $14.5 million from IDB Development Corporation. The funds represent both a corporate investment and part of the CL

South Korea's government pushed back against speculation about banning cryptocurrency trading, moving to address concerns raised by Prime Minister Lee Nak-Yeon about the sector's explosive growth. Le

eToro, a European social trading and multi-asset brokerage company, will support CoinDash in the development and implementation of new crypto trading and portfolio management products. eToro is CoinDa

South Korea's National Tax Service announced cryptocurrency taxation plans in December 2017, proposing income tax and transfer income tax on virtual currency holdings and transactions.

Privacy infrastructure firm NuCypher has closed a $4.3 million token pre-sale round backed by thirteen investment entities spanning crypto hedge funds and traditional venture capital. Polychain Capita

BnkToTheFuture plans to launch a public token sale in February 2018 to build a platform for trading equity tokens. According to Bloomberg, the company is targeting $33 million through the initial coin

Jamie Dimon runs JPMorgan, the world's largest bank with a market cap over $367 billion. For the past year, he has opposed bitcoin—calling it a fraud and a money laundering tool. Ari Paul sees the pa

The Chicago Board Options Exchange has launched Bitcoin futures trading, beating CME Group to market and providing the first regulated cryptocurrency derivatives product for institutional investors.

A fraudulent version of MyEtherWallet, the most widely-used Ethereum wallet, reached the third position among finance apps in Apple's App Store. Christian Lundkvist, a ConsenSys developer and founder

Telcoin, an Asian startup, is pursuing agreements with telecommunications carriers worldwide to let their subscribers send money, pay for things, and receive aid using blockchain-backed tokens. The co

Australia's largest stock exchange has announced plans to become the first global financial marketplace to adopt blockchain technology for its core clearing and settlement operations. The Australian S

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger joined Everipedia as chief information officer. The blockchain startup is building the world's first encyclopedia on blockchains. Everipedia launched in 2015

According to a post from three Lightning Network development teams on Medium, a release......

The meteoric rise of CryptoKitties has created an unprecedented bottleneck on the Ethereum blockchain. Just 72 hours after a single collectible feline fetched $117,712 on the platform, the game has su

Cryptocurrency Dash has been integrated into digital wallet and money transfer platform Uphold. Customers...

The NiceHash mining marketplace suffered a major security breach in December 2017, with attackers stealing approximately 4,700 bitcoins worth $64 million through a sophisticated spear phishing attack that compromised company systems.

Mark Cuban, a prominent billionaire entrepreneur and investor, has indicated that the imminent bitcoin futures listings on two major exchanges represent a constructive development for digital assets.

At the Baltic Honeybadger Bitcoin Conference in Latvia, developers gathered for a candid discussion about protocol evolution. The panel touched on a subject many in the community had been hesitant to

The SEC's Cyber Unit filed its first case, charging PlexCorps and two executives with fraud. Dominic Lacroix and Sabrina Paradis-Royer marketed a digital token to thousands of investors in the United

Cantor Fitzgerald is preparing to launch a bitcoin futures program sometime next year, a move that solidifies the Wall Street firm's place among traditional finance players now trading digital assets.

CryptoKitties, a blockchain-based collectible game, congested the Ethereum network with unprecedented transaction volumes during its launch in December 2017, consuming 25 percent of network capacity.

On December 3rd, Stimpson J. Cat sold a digital cartoon kitten for $117,712. The kitten came from CryptoKitties, a new platform built on the Ethereum blockchain where users breed and trade virtual pet

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced plans to launch the petro, a government-backed cryptocurrency allegedly secured by the country's vast oil reserves, during a televised address.

Bitcoin and Ethereum reached new all-time highs, prompting some prominent investors to make bold predictions. Mike Novogratz, a hedge fund manager, has argued both cryptocurrencies could triple in val

Malaysia's securities regulator is investigating how blockchain infrastructure might improve unlisted share trading. Through its Alliance for Fintech program (aFINity), the Securities Commission has i

Indorse went live with its minimum viable product recently, opening access to beta users who want to build professional profiles on the Ethereum-based platform. The MVP lets professionals create a pro

YouNow, a live video streaming platform, yesterday added PROPS to Coinlist.co, an ICO vetting service for accredited investors. Three projects now carry Coinlist's approval: Filecoin, Blockstack, and

Two dozen enterprises have now joined IOTA Foundation's ambitious effort to build an open marketplace for buying and selling information captured by connected devices and sensors worldwide. The roster

Bitcoin reached $10,000 for the first time on November 28, 2017, marking a tenfold increase from its $1,000 opening price and crossing another major psychological milestone.

Six Bitcoin developers and security researchers took the stage on day two of Baltic Honeybadger 2017 in Riga to discuss what kept them awake at night. Eric Lombrozo of Ciphrex, Adam Back at Blockstrea

Ireland Craft Beers and arc-net partnered to build Downstream IPL, a beer that buyers can track on the blockchain from production to the retail shelf. The two companies met through Entrepreneurial Spa

Digital payments platform Abra has unveiled a Bitcoin-backed multi-signature wallet designed to facilitate storage, transfers, and asset swaps featuring ether and 52 traditional fiat currencies as ini

South Korea's Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon is demanding strict regulatory frameworks for cryptocurrency trading. Bitcoin's value grew from $10 billion in January to $167 billion today, and Lee views thi

Cryptocurrency's collective market capitalization has surpassed a historic $305.3 billion milestone, breaking through the $300 billion ceiling for the first time. The benchmark was recorded on Monday

Ether has climbed 5,700 percent since January, with Ethereum's market cap surging from $700 million to $45 billion. The token is the year's best performer among major cryptocurrencies. Mike Novogratz

Hyundai's IoT division is launching a token offering alongside Hdac Technology, marking Hyundai's entry into the token market as an early corporate adopter. Dae-Sun Chung founded Hdac Technology this

Bitcoin's rally has analysts scrambling to revise forecasts. Ronnie Moas, head of Standpoint Research, bumped his 2018 price target to $14,000 from $11,000 in a Monday note to clients, citing five mon

Zimbabwe's cryptocurrency market is surging. On the very day Robert Mugabe resigned after 37 years in power, bitcoin's price on the country's main exchange, Golix, had reached $13,000—50 percent above

San Francisco-based Orchid Labs has unveiled the private alpha of its Orchid network, a blockchain system that enables internet access without censorship, restrictions, or surveillance. The network op

Theta Labs, a startup backed by YouTube co-founder Steven Chen, is building a video network that pays people for sharing bandwidth. The platform uses blockchain technology and a native cryptocurrency

Rumors of a nationwide bitcoin mining ban in China have sent miners and pool operators scrambling to scope out alternatives. They're eyeing Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Russia, and the United States for r

Bitcoin's 1 megabyte block size constrains capacity for small payments. With mempools in the range of 50 million to 100 million bytes, settling a $1 transaction on the main chain becomes unfeasible. T

Bitcoin carries a popular reputation for anonymity, one that doesn't survive scrutiny. The blockchain is public, and anyone motivated to do so can trace transactions if they connect wallet addresses t

Narrative, a recently launched venture, is leveraging digital currencies and blockchain systems to construct an alternative social network that compensates those who generate material, manage

Trading platforms are adding Bitcoin Cash to their services. eToro and Bitstamp both announced support for the cryptocurrency. eToro has begun accepting purchases, while Bitstamp plans to launch tradi

The recently launched CryptoCribs platform, built atop the Ethereum blockchain, is fundamentally reshaping how travelers reserve accommodations by accepting digital assets like Bitcoin and Ether. Sinc

CME Group chairman and CEO Terry Duffy has said that the planned bitcoin futures...

Fujitsu Laboratories, a leading research center and a subsidiary of Japan’s IT giant Fujitsu,...

The Monero community crowdfunded Kovri protocol development through donations raising over 7,200 XMR, advancing efforts to hide user IP addresses from cryptocurrency network observers.

The emergence of blockchain as a transformative technology extends far beyond cryptocurrency speculation—its applications are poised to reshape the gig economy. The freelance workforce has exploded ac

Dutch financial regulators warned investors this week that initial coin offerings create conditions ripe for fraud. The Netherlands Authority for Financial Markets released its warning as the ICO mark

Pundi X announced November 14 that its point-of-sale terminals now connect to the NEM blockchain, allowing retailers across Southeast Asia to let customers buy and sell cryptocurrencies. The startup t

Sean's Outpost has won a three-year legal battle to keep Satoshi Forest open. In October, Judge Thomas Dannheisser overturned Escambia County's permit denial, ruling that the county had cited regulati

Singapore's financial regulator and MIT's media lab are joining forces to expand the city's blockchain talent and research capabilities. The Monetary Authority of Singapore announced the partnership a

Vitalik Buterin this week outlined an Ethereum that never materialized. The protocol's founding vision placed it atop Bitcoin, leveraging Bitcoin's security without operating as a separate blockchain.

A major energy sector consortium has assembled to develop and launch a blockchain platform for trading commodities. The group bringing BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and Statoil into a partnership also counts

Ethereum's network now handles twice as many daily transactions as bitcoin, processing more than 520,000 transactions per day on average. Developers at the Ethereum Foundation and the open-source comm

Dash's network infrastructure received a substantial upgrade this week as the team unveiled version 12.2 of its Core software. The new release delivers multiple enhancements, technical improvements, a

At Stanford's Scaling Bitcoin workshop this past weekend, Tadge Dryja presented discreet log contracts, a framework designed to strengthen Bitcoin smart contracts while reducing how much users must tr

Luno, the cryptocurrency trading platform formerly known as BitX, has unveiled support for Ethereum, expanding access to the digital asset across 40 countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Nigeria, S

IBM is pitching blockchain technology to British Columbia's government as a tool for tracking cannabis through its supply chain as the province develops regulations for legal marijuana sales. In docu

A Manhattan preschool chain now accepts cryptocurrency for tuition bills. The Montessori Schools, which operates locations in Flatiron and Soho, began taking bitcoin and ethereum payments after sendin

Funderbeam, a blockchain-backed marketplace for startup investment, has crossed the €5 million fundraising threshold since its April 2016 launch. The platform operates the first and only secondary mar

Tech Bureau, a Japanese fintech and cryptocurrency company from Japan, has raised US$767,500 from...

Oracles Network, a California-based company, launched cross-blockchain bridges that move assets between Ethereum-compatible networks including Ethereum Classic, Oracles Network itself, and Ethereum.

Majozi Sithole, governor of the Central Bank of Swaziland, told delegates at the Swaziland Economic Conference this week that the bank plans to learn more about cryptocurrencies even as the CBS weighs

Brian Armstrong, the CEO of cryptocurrency wallet provider and exchange Coinbase, personally holds more...

The Ethereum network faces a critical challenge: a dearth of qualified engineers willing to tackle its most pressing technical hurdles. According to Augur's creator Joey Krug, this developer shortage

One of Silicon Valley's prominent bitcoin ventures, 21 Inc, which accumulated over $121 million in venture funding, underwent a substantial identity transformation into Earn.com, pivoting toward a mis

Colu, an Israeli blockchain startup building hyperlocal digital currencies, is pushing a $50 million token sale. The company has already pocketed $12 million in venture funding from backers like Digit

Bitcoin crossed $7,000 this week, setting another all-time high of $7,350 on Bitstamp Thursday. The cryptocurrency has climbed 620 percent since the start of the year, when it traded near $1,000. At t

The Securities and Exchange Commission warned investors on November 1st that celebrities who promote initial coin offerings face serious legal consequences if they fail to disclose how much they are b

Status wrapped up a $100 million financing round based on sales of SNT tokens. The decentralized browser project, equipped with messaging and cryptocurrency wallet features on Ethereum, promoted Nabil

China's ban on cryptocurrency trading in yuan took effect, shutting out mainland exchanges from the domestic market. Huobi, which operated among the world's largest crypto platforms, responded by esta

Foundational blockchain, envisioned as a decentralized online marketplace network, announces advisory board for the...

CharityStars, the online fundraising platform where users bid on exclusive experiences and merchandise, now accepts bitcoin and ethereum donations. Cryptocurrency donors can participate on the platfor

CME Group, the world's largest derivatives exchange, has announced plans to launch Bitcoin futures contracts by year-end 2017, pending regulatory approval.

Lala World, a Singapore-based blockchain startup, closed a $2 million Series A funding round designed to bring financial services to the unbanked across developing markets. The identities of the inves

AMD's stock fell sharply following a Morgan Stanley analysis predicting that demand for cryptocurrency-focused chips would plummet by fifty percent over the next twelve months. Shares dropped nine per

Energi Mine launched a blockchain platform today to reshape the global energy market, which exceeds $2 trillion. The company says the current system is broken: energy companies profit when they sell m

IndaHash, a 130-person company operating across seven countries, automates influencer marketing. The platform connects social media personalities with major brands including Coca-Cola, McDonald's, and

A sophisticated phishing operation targeting MyEtherWallet users netted criminals more than $15,000 in just hours last week. The attack came to light when security specialist Wesley Neelen discovered

Tokyo's SBI Group is making a substantial push into cryptocurrency and blockchain this week through multiple business moves. The holding company, which controls most of SBI's subsidiary operations, pa

Quoine, a cryptocurrency startup headquartered in Japan, has signed a partnership with Blockwave to...

Vitalik Buterin expects the vast majority of initial coin offerings to collapse. At the ETHWaterloo hackathon, the Ethereum co-founder told judges from Coinbase, Consensys, Slock.It, and Augur that ni

Brickblock announced its public token sale begins October 31st, offering cryptocurrency holders a way to invest in real-world assets without traditional middlemen. The Berlin-based startup has built

GameCredits, a blockchain company which focuses on the gaming industry has revealed that it is teaming up with game developer Unity Technologies to accelerate the adoption of the blockchain and digita

Peer-to-peer marketplaces for cryptocurrency transactions are starting to gain meaningful adoption across the broader sector. LocalEthereum, a newly launched P2P platform for buying and selling ether,

A Swiss nonprofit called the Publiq Foundation announced the launch of a blockchain-based content platform designed to combat fake news and bias in reporting. The platform gives authors, journalists,

Singapore's Monetary Authority and Hong Kong's Monetary Authority are building a cross-border blockchain platform for trade finance. The project aims to eliminate fraud and errors in a system built on

Bitcoin Gold hard forked from the Bitcoin blockchain on October 24, 2017, changing the proof-of-work algorithm to enable mining on graphics processing units instead of specialized ASIC hardware.

Bitcoin may be a bigger idea than Amazon or Apple. That’s according to Catherine......

BitGive, the first nonprofit to combine Bitcoin technology with 501(c)(3) status, unveiled GiveTrack in beta form Tuesday night at Money2020 in Las Vegas. The platform tracks charitable donations from

A $124 ATM fee in Las Vegas caught the attention of BitPay co-founder and chairman Tony Gallippi this week. He posted the receipt on Twitter, highlighting what he viewed as an absurd charge for a debi

BMCHAIN is testing token adoption in Russia. The project raised $1,564,897 through its ICO, and Business Molodost, which helped launch it, accepts BMT as payment for courses at discounts reaching 50%.

MiningPool has partnered with Bitcoinshirt.co after editors at the site discovered the store's merchandise designs through a Reddit post from the company's owners. The collaboration sets the stage fo

Throughout 2017, development teams at Bitcoin and Ethereum shifted focus to building systems that sit on top of their blockchains, seeking to handle far more transactions than the main chains could ma

Dash, which ranks as the sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market value, debuts on Qryptos (a cryptocurrency-only trading platform) and Quoinex (a crypto-fiat exchange), both operating as subsidiaries o

BitRent envisions fundamentally transforming the real estate sector through blockchain technology, targeting a dramatic expansion of crypto market value to $10 trillion via investor participation. The

Hackers breached Hanatour, South Korea's largest travel agency, this month and stole the personal data of more than one million customers. The information included names, phone numbers, social securit

Imec-DistriNet researcher Mathy Vanhoef uncovered critical flaws in WPA2 this past week, exposing vulnerabilities that affect the encryption protecting all contemporary Wi-Fi networks. His findings re

Australia's financial regulator is moving forward with a significant overhaul of its anti-money laundering framework, bringing cryptocurrency exchanges into formal compliance oversight for the first t

BitClave raised nearly $15 million in its pre-sale, positioning itself as a privacy-focused alternative to Google and Facebook. The Ethereum-based search engine built transparency into its core functi

Circle bought Trigger Finance, a platform that lets retail investors set custom rules for trading and receiving alerts. The acquisition moves the Trigger team to Circle's new headquarters in New York,

Digital commerce grows at 20% per year. By 2020, online marketing should hit $335 billion. Affiliate marketing operates on a straightforward principle: merchants pay promoters according to campaign re

Last week, the SEC's Investor Advisory Committee convened to discuss blockchain technology and blockchain systems in securities markets. Throughout the meeting, committee members and industry

A Reddit user posted on r/Ethereum this week describing malware that intercepts Ethereum addresses during copy-paste operations on Windows machines. The r/Ethereum community has grown to over 131,000

XBT Provider announced two Ethereum exchange-traded notes on Nasdaq Stockholm on October 11th, bringing a new path for European investors to access cryptocurrency exposure. The two instruments, Ether

France's financial regulator is advancing rules for token-based fundraising, its leadership confirmed this month. Robert Ophele, head of the AMF (Autorite des marches financiers), revealed to Challeng

Vladimir Putin told Russian financial officials on Tuesday that cryptocurrencies need regulation, though he cautioned against imposing excessive restrictions. Putin held the meeting in Sochi with Elv

Eleven financial institutions and five technology companies working with Singapore's central bank have completed three software prototypes for decentralized payment and settlement on blockchain networ

Over the past month, following The PBOC’s crackdown on Chinese Bitcoin exchanges, Japan has successfully...

Celsius Foundation plans to launch a peer-to-peer lending platform on Ethereum that connects borrowers and lenders while removing banks from the equation. The company targets millennials and genX—demo

Vitalik Buterin sees a problem. Core developers on public blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum work below market rates to build critical infrastructure. They earn less than they could in private indu

HitBTC will list BMT, the token from BMCHAIN, starting in October, the team announced. The token trades against Bitcoin and Ethereum. The exchange handles more than $104 million in volume each day. Po

ShapeShift, a Switzerland-based instant cryptocurrency exchange, is adding NEM's XEM token to its offerings. The company, founded in 2014, operates an exchange where traders can convert bitcoin and al

Dr S.P. Sharma, chief economist at the PHP Chamber of Commerce and Industry, told the Economic Times that bitcoin needs regulatory oversight before India will grant it legal status as a currency. Bit

Consumer finance startup Circle has unveiled Cent Routing Exchange (CENTRE), a new open source...

Construction-focused blockchain venture Etch, operating out of the UK, has brought on KPMG—one of the world's most prominent consulting organizations—to guide its token sale strategy. The advisory eng

Dan Morehead, the founder of Pantera Capital and chairman at Bitstamp, a major cryptocurrency...

Goldman Sachs is examining the possibility of establishing a dedicated cryptocurrency trading desk, marking a potential watershed moment for institutional finance's embrace of digital assets. The Wall

Early September brought a significant development to South Korea's digital asset landscape when Coinone—the nation's third-ranked cryptocurrency exchange, trailing only Bithumb and Korbit—unveiled a g

Wirex, a London-headquartered company providing personal banking and financial services to bitcoin users, has...

Pundi X Labs, an Isle of Man startup, wants to sell cryptocurrencies across Southeast Asia the way convenience stores sell soda—through machines that take cash and cards and spit out digital coins. T

Eleven digital currency companies in Japan have been granted a Virtual Currency Exchange license...

Rod Garratt, an economics professor at UC Santa Barbara, has voiced skepticism toward the push by central banks to develop their own digital currencies. Throughout 2017, central banks from multiple co

The landscape of decentralized cryptocurrency trading has been littered with failed experiments, yet Bisq (previously known as Bitsquare) endures. More than a year into operation, the project's team i

Japan’s financial regulator the Financial Services Agency (FSA) and various financial institutions are developing...

Starting October 2nd and running through November 17th, B2Broker is launching a token offering to finance an ambitious technical initiative: the B2BX aggregator platform (www.b2bx.pro). This system co

The Middle Eastern nation of Bahrain has signaled serious intent to embrace cryptocurrency and blockchain technology, with officials actively exploring pathways for broader adoption. At the MIT Innova

Dunamu unveiled UpBit this week, a new cryptocurrency trading platform built with Bittrex, a major U.S. exchange. The platform will list all 111 cryptocurrencies currently available on Bittrex. The So

Scotland's whisky industry began as contraband. Distillers once outran English tax collectors. The business has since grown into a global powerhouse worth billions. Scottish food and drink exports re

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin has publicly warned that the initial coin offering market is experiencing unsustainable bubble conditions with most projects destined to fail.

Sirin Labs is redirecting its focus toward cryptocurrency. The smartphone maker behind the ultraexpensive Solarin, priced at $16,000, has unveiled Finney, a new product line designed from the ground u

India's government is developing its own digital currency. The central government has started discussing the proposal with a committee of officials, according to unnamed sources cited by the Business

The CFTC has sued Gelfman Blueprint Inc. and its CEO Nicholas Gelfman for running a bitcoin Ponzi scheme that took more than $600,000 from about 80 investors between January 2014 and January 2016. Th

China's crackdown on cryptocurrencies has sent mainland investors and token founders scrambling for alternatives. Traders are buying and selling bitcoin among themselves while founders of crypto proje

Leverj, built by the team that created Coinpit, is preparing to launch a decentralized exchange for cryptocurrency derivatives. The platform aims to address security and usability gaps that plague tod

Propy, a blockchain-based startup developing a decentralized property registry and global real estate marketplace, has concluded a token sale generating US$15 million in capital from more than 6,500 p

Nations around the world are witnessing an influx in refugee numbers. still, whereas countless individuals are keen to re-establish themselves in a new country it’s often easier stated than done. For

Chinese regulators have instructed all bitcoin and cryptocurrency exchanges operating domestically to cease trading and close their platforms by a specified deadline.

Bitcoin has collapsed 38% since early September as China cracks down on digital assets. Within hours of each other this week, two major exchanges announced they will shut their doors: ViaBTC said it w

A Copenhagen-based company called Media Sifter is pursuing an ambitious vision: harness blockchain technology and collective intelligence to rebuild how people consume news. The startup plans

A new contender in the cryptocurrency exchange arena is taking a decidedly different approach to platform governance. Mandarin Exchange proposes tackling the persistent problems of centralized exchang

India’s central bank has stated to a parliamentary committee that digital currencies are ‘susceptible to misuse or abuse.’ In March, India’s finance ministry set up an interdisciplinary committee task

When Ethereum's developers activated the hard fork to reverse the DAO hack, the community celebrated the decision. Vitalik Buterin opened champagne. Brian Armstrong, CEO of Coinbase, tweeted about the

Finland's central bank released a research paper that presents bitcoin in favorable economic terms. The Bank of Finland commissioned economists Gur Huberman, Jacob Leshno, and Ciamac Moallemi to write

Tether and Ethfinex plan to release the Tether ERC20 token on Ethereum starting September 18. The token converts US dollars into a tradeable form on the Ethereum blockchain, letting users move dollars

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon has publicly declared Bitcoin a fraud and stated he would fire any traders caught speculating in the cryptocurrency, intensifying Wall Street skepticism.

The regulatory hammer is coming down on token sales across the globe. The US, China, and Hong Kong are all tightening their grip on initial coin offerings and crowdfunding mechanisms, which opens an u

A technical presentation by Greg Maxwell, a Bitcoin Core contributor and chief technology officer at Blockstream, recently took place at a SF Bitcoin Developers event. The discussion centered on the i

A blockchain-based venture aims to overhaul the $7.6 trillion global travel marketplace, challenging the duopoly of Expedia and Priceline, which together command 95% of U.S. bookings. Winding Tree pro

Bitcoin's underlying technology offers capabilities that current financial systems lack. Supporters argue that peer-to-peer protocols could supplant banking intermediaries altogether, since transactio

Foodborne illness represents a staggering global health burden. The World Health Organisation reports that approximately one in every ten individuals on Earth suffers from contaminated food consumptio

Filecoin raised $257 million across a private presale and public ICO, setting a new record for blockchain-based token sales and exceeding Tezos's previous $232 million record.

Ripple opened a new office in Mumbai as it expands into the world's largest destination for remittances. The company appointed Navin Gupta as country manager, drawing on his two decades of experience

The world of token sales has experienced a seismic shock this week as China's monetary authorities moved decisively against the booming sector. In a stunning reversal, a regulatory body overseen by th

Michelle Mone and Douglas Barrowman are selling luxury apartments in Dubai for bitcoin. The Knox Group is the first major developer to accept bitcoin as payment for property. Mone, best known for bui

Venture capital firm Lakeside Partners, blockchain firm Blockhaus, and business law and tax firm...

China's People's Bank and other government agencies have declared initial coin offerings illegal and issued directives prohibiting banks and financial institutions from conducting ICO-related business.

Bitcoin achieved a new all-time high above $5,000 on September 2, 2017, though prices subsequently pulled back below the level amid profit-taking and market volatility.

Bitcoin's SegWit update went live on the network this year as Bitcoin Core's answer to transaction malleability and scaling concerns. In the coming weeks, developers expect to activate Metropolis and

Bitcoin transaction fees have begun falling as major wallet providers activate Segregated Witness, or SegWit. The blockchain analysis firm OXT reports that fewer than one in ten bitcoin transactions u

Toronto-headquartered Polymath is constructing infrastructure designed to make it simpler and more cost-effective for financial institutions to create and distribute tokenized securities. Slated to go

Ethereum-based Aragon, which develops infrastructure for establishing and overseeing decentralized autonomous organizations, has rolled out a new Transparency Framework that seeks to become the benchm

Since bitcoin's creation in 2009, economists have questioned where it derives value. Peter Schiff remains among the skeptics. In Venezuela, however, the debate seems beside the point. Bitcoin function

Some prominent figures argue that bitcoin is overpriced. Mark Cuban, BBC technology correspondent Rory Cellan-Jones, and currency expert Jim Rickards have all made this claim. But high prices don't au

Nxt, the blockchain platform developed by Jelurida, is rolling out a Blockchain Creation Kit that lets developers build custom blockchains using the full Nxt source code. Builders can set up their own

Three entities—Singulariteam, CoinTree Capital, and BlockchainIL—have launched Alignment, a blockchain hub operating out of Israel. Functioning as an all-encompassing resource center, Alignment will s

Estonia, which pioneered e-residency, is developing estcoin as part of a strategy to build a bitcoin-backed sovereign wealth fund—a plan that would make it the first European Union nation to undertake

Three members of Congress are moving to shield bitcoin and other digital currencies from federal regulation, according to reporting by the Daily Caller and the Hill. The lawmakers are also investigati

A 2015 report from Magister Advisors, a London-based mergers and acquisitions firm focused on technology, projected that bitcoin could become the world's sixth-largest reserve currency by 2030. Bitco

Hive Project successfully raised 2,087 BTC, or approximately $8.9 million, in its token offering from 2,234 investors. The team plans to create the world's first blockchain-powered invoice financing p

India's government began examining how to regulate digital currencies after two major cyberattacks in May and June convinced officials that bitcoin posed a security threat. In May, WannaCry hit system

Cryptocurrency prices climbed this week, with the sector's total market capitalization breaking through the $150 billion barrier. That figure represents a $132 billion injection of capital since Janua

At Blockstack Summit 2017, BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen sat down with Blockstack's Muneeb Ali to discuss his perspective on Bitcoin's current development trajectory. The conversation touched on Cohen

Bitcoin broke past $4,000 this week, a milestone that seemed impossible to investors who watched the currency collapse after Mt. Gox in early 2014. For years, the asset looked doomed. Back then, bitco

Segregated Witness activated on Bitcoin's mainnet on August 24, 2017, after miners achieved consensus support, enabling transaction malleability fixes and establishing the foundation for the Lightning Network.

Transaction costs have plunged dramatically in recent months following SegWit activation and SegWit2x discussions. Major wallet platforms including Blockchain.com, the second-largest non-custodial wal

Estonia could become the first nation to run a government-backed initial coin offering. The country is moving forward with plans for estcoin, a digital token intended for e-residents who want to parti

The Blockstack Summit 2017 brought together three prominent figures in payments technology for a panel discussion on where digital currencies fit in the online economy. Balaji Srinivasan, CEO of 21, E

Hackers infiltrated Enigma's website and social media accounts, walking off with about $500,000 in ether from supporters of the MIT-founded blockchain project. An attacker gained access to an adminis

Thailand's central bank sat down this week with Vitalik Buterin and executives from Omise to explore blockchain's role in the country's payment and financial systems. Omise, founded in 2013, spent fou

Decentralized applications and sidechain platform Lisk has raised over 4,600 BTC and announced a new partnership with Microsoft.

Western Union and WorldRemit dominate how people send money across borders, and their fee structures drain billions from global remittance flows. In 2016, developing countries received $429 billion in

Ethereum-powered real estate platform Propy has inked an agreement to collaborate with Ukraine's government on launching blockchain-based systems for property transactions and ownership documentation.

Falcon Private Bank will expand its cryptocurrency offerings on August 22, adding Ether, Litecoin, and Bitcoin Cash to its platform. Last month, the Swiss bank became the first private bank in the cou

Bitcoin broke through $4,300 on August 14, marking another record high. The surge came during a week that saw tensions between Washington and Pyongyang intensify, institutional money flowing into cryp

REAL, a Singapore startup, launches its Ethereum-backed real estate platform in November. The platform grants investors access to global property deals, cuts the friction from traditional investing, a

HBO is working to purchase $250,000 in bitcoin to pay hackers who broke into its network and stole confidential materials, including cast members' contact information and scripts for upcoming episodes

Three Japanese venture capital firms have pledged US$9 million in investment in COMSA, an Initial...

Blockchain projects listed on Cofound.it will see their tokens automatically approved for integration into...

Dmitry Marinichev, an internet policy advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, plans to launch a cryptocurrency mining operation and is raising $100 million through an initial coin offering. Bloom

On the 8th of August, 2017, the GoldMint project is being launched to furnish gold ownership solutions for cryptocurrency investors. Physical gold is an age-old method of payment and wealth preservati

Bitcoin mining pools reached full consensus on activating Segregated Witness (SegWit), a software upgrade that will change how the network processes transactions. All mining pools signaled support yes

LAToken and Rivetz International announced a partnership to integrate hardware-based cybersecurity into LAToken's marketplace for tokenized assets. The collaboration will use Rivetz's RvT token to pro

A consortium of major banks has completed development of a blockchain application designed to overhaul trade financing. The eleven institutions—Bangkok Bank, BBVA, BNP Paribas, HSBC, ING, Mizu

Bitcoin Cash hard forked from Bitcoin on August 1 after Bitcoin ABC, an implementation backed by Bitmain and others, gained support from miners. ViaBTC, a major Chinese mining pool, mined the first bl

investFeed unveiled a new platform for cryptocurrency traders. CEO Ronald Chernesky described it as \"a combination of Facebook, cryptocurrency and the Bloomberg Terminal.\" The New York startup, found

A pseudonymous researcher calculated that a single bitcoin should trade at $5.8 million. The paper, titled \"Bitcoin: A $5.8 Million Valuation,\" argues bitcoin functions as better money than any existi

whereas the main sales pitch of Bitcoin has always been that it allows users to route around governments and banks to create a new, decentralized financial system, one online gambling site, known as B

Wanglu Tech, a Chinese blockchain firm, unveiled Wanchain today—a distributed financial infrastructure built on Ethereum that bridges separate blockchain networks and enables asset transfers between t

A team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign took first place at this year's IC3-Ethereum Crypto Boot Camp. The winning project, KEVM, is a framework that produces the first complete, ex

Bitcoin Cash launched as a new cryptocurrency on August 1, 2017, following a hard fork that increased the block size limit from 1MB to 8MB in an effort to reduce transaction fees.

Chronicled, a startup based in San Francisco, wrapped up a technical trial demonstrating a new way to transfer information about goods through cryptographic means without exposing parties to each othe

Bitcoin Cash forks off from the main Bitcoin network on August 1 at 12:20 UTC. Investors and traders show no signs of panic. Crypto analyst Vinny Lingham, CEO of Civic, forecast the opposite earlier

Bitcoin's proof-of-work architecture creates permanence through its mining consensus system, and the immutability this generates has proven valuable far beyond finance—supporting applications in ident

The Justice Department has resurrected a federal asset forfeiture program that permits law enforcement to seize assets in states where the practice faces legal restrictions. Attorney General Eric Hold

Earlier this week, the Genesis Mining development team revealed that an unauthorized intrusion by an undisclosed attacker was discovered and consequently, funds stored in the company’s hot wallet were

The European Commission is dedicating €500,000 to find a team that will establish the European Blockchain Observatory and Forum. This expertise hub will focus on blockchain and blockchain tech

Coinsilium will be hosting its first Blockchain Tech Lab in April 2016, a week-long event dedicated to the developers community.

Major Wall Street players are increasingly embracing Bitcoin, and the metrics backing this shift are becoming difficult to dismiss. According to Bank of America's latest analysis, the cryptocurrency h

BitClave, a Silicon Valley startup, is targeting the $550 billion global advertising market with a blockchain-based search engine that gives users control over their own data. Founder Alex Bessonov ra

Bitcoin's community is moving toward activating Segregated Witness, a scaling solution first proposed in December 2015. Years of debate blocked progress. The UASF and Segwit2x proposals have broken th

Ethereum-powered Propy, a blockchain venture based in California, is developing a decentralized marketplace for real estate transactions that operates on a global scale. The platform aims to simplify

Four participants debated the block size question and mining centralization at the State of Digital Money conference in Los Angeles. Paul Puey, who runs Airbitz, Tone Vays working in derivatives, Ryan

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has released an investigative report concluding that tokens offered by The DAO constitute securities under federal law, establishing important regulatory precedent for initial coin offerings.

Charles Hoskinson, one of ethereum's original architects, has become vocal about the dangers lurking in the initial coin offering boom. He told Bloomberg that the sector is experiencing an \"over-token

Coinbase announced that GDAX, its flagship digital asset exchange, will not support any blockchain created by Bitmain's planned hard fork. Adam White, general manager of GDAX, made the statement. Coi

Federal law enforcement made public the financial scale of Alexandre Cazes's alleged criminal enterprise today through a verified forfeiture complaint. Cazes, identified as a top administrator of the

A Warsaw-based blockchain technology company has secured €2 million in funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 initiative, signaling growing confidence in blockchain innovation across t

Federal prosecutors and law enforcement agencies announced the takedown of AlphaBay and Hansa Market during a Department of Justice press conference. Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Deputy Attorney Ge

This October, London's Banking Hall will host a landmark gathering focused on how digital innovation is reshaping the money movement sector. Running October 10-11, the Global Money Transfer Summit bri

Jihan Wu and Eric Lombrozo are trading accusations of broken promises in private. The Bitmain CEO and Bitcoin Core developer have exhausted attempts to find common ground. Wu backs SegWit2x, which wo

IBM released its new Z mainframe, the company's most substantial hardware overhaul in more than 15 years. The company developed the system by consulting 150 enterprise clients, all of whom ranked encr

Kik's chief executive Ted Livingston spent June at the San Francisco Bitcoin Meetup discussing the company's new cryptocurrency initiative. Kin will operate within the Kik messaging platform, with 5 p

Early Bitcoin contributor Amir Taaki has long viewed cryptocurrency through a distinctly ideological lens. His foundational work on Dark Wallet and his fascination with Bitcoin's application during th

Fintech companies have chased a particular milestone for years: an application that lets anyone anywhere send money directly to another person's smartphone with a single action. Bill Barhydt, CEO of t

ICObazaar is a crowdsale platform that lets investors participate in ICOs at any stage of a fundraising campaign. The platform targets both newcomers and experienced participants, aiming to eliminate

The Tezos blockchain project has completed a record-setting initial coin offering that raised $232 million, surpassing the previous ICO fundraising record set by Bancor weeks earlier.

Over the past several months, Ethereum's prominence has surged alongside growing investor fascination with initial coin offerings. Yet numerous observers argue that Bitcoin should not adopt the sophis

Dmitry Murashchik's contract with Mycelium ended on April 1st. He volunteers with the Bitcoin wallet company, and the token crowdsale remains a source of tension with investors. On a recent episode of

A South Korean lawmaker plans to introduce three bills next month that would establish the country's first regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum, according to the Korea H

Omise, a payment processor operating across Asia, revealed OmiseGO this week: an Ethereum-powered digital wallet that works without a traditional bank. The platform could serve the hundreds of million

Jihan Wu, co-CEO of Bitmain and the world's largest bitcoin mining hardware maker, took the stage at The Future of Bitcoin Conference 2017 on Friday with a diagnosis: Bitcoin has fallen behind on a fe

The NEM.io Foundation announced a $40 million spending plan for the next year to drive its blockchain platform across global markets. Of that, $5 million will support companies in the Blockchain Cente

The EOS initial coin offering launched on June 26, 2017, beginning a year-long token sale structure that would ultimately raise over $4 billion, the largest ICO in history.

Ambisafe, a US-based startup, introduced Orderbook this week, a platform where traders can buy and sell tokens from initial coin offerings on the Ethereum network. The service runs in alpha version. A

Bolenum, an Ethereum-based startup focused on Africa, opened its presale today with a full public ICO scheduled to launch July 15. The project aims to raise funds through the sale of 5 million BLN tok

The Open ANX Foundation, based in Hong Kong, announced openANX on Thursday, a new trading platform that combines centralized and decentralized exchange features on the Ethereum blockchain. The open-so

During a recent appearance on The Crypto Show, Daniel Krawisz—a former backend engineer with Mycelium—outlined his concerns about the wallet company's token sale conducted the previous year. The crowd

Colu, the Tel Aviv-based startup that builds blockchain-backed local currencies, opened a second digital pound in the UK in June 2017. The Local Pound, East London, follows the Liverpool version launc

Segregated Witness and the Lightning Network come up together in conversations, but many Bitcoin users don't understand how the two connect. SegWit would enable a better version of Lightning on the ne

Bitcoin developers and miners are fighting over how to expand the network, and the summer of 2017 has crystallized two competing paths forward: BIP 148 and SegWit2x. Both proposals would activate Segr

Bancor's fundraising push has shattered records, accumulating $153 million through a token sale that captured remarkable investor attention. The Swiss-backed initiative collected 396,000 ether in a re

Bancor has completed the largest initial coin offering to date, raising approximately $153 million in ether during a rapid three-hour crowdsale that captured investor enthusiasm.

The Future of Bitcoin conference will converge in Arnhem, Netherlands on June 30–July 1, 2017. Organizers have revealed a speaker lineup spanning Russia, Poland, France, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands

Singapore's central bank released a report on Project Ubin, detailing its push to create a digital form of the Singapore dollar on blockchain. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) began the proje

BTC.com, the Bitcoin wallet backed by Chinese mining giant Bitmain Technologies, will let users buy coins without leaving the app. The partnership with US exchange Kraken brings Kraken Direct into BTC

Leading Europe-based bitcoin exchange Bitstamp, has been granted a license as a regulated Payment Institution by Luxembourg.

EthLend wants to unlock global lending through Ethereum, and it's recruiting the community to help build it. Borrowing costs swing wildly around the world. A homeowner in Europe might lock in a mortg

SmartPlay.tech's RLT token has surged fourfold, riding momentum from the platform's blockchain roulette games. The company has introduced \"win-win roulette,\" a new game where players stake bets using

eToro revealed the Blockchain Wallet this week at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum. The platform, in pilot phase, lets users store and trade multiple cryptocurrencies within a single wallet. The brok

Developers and blockchain enthusiasts from across the globe are converging on Arnhem this summer for a major gathering focused on Bitcoin's direction. Set for June 29 through July 1, 2017, the Future

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Brave, the privacy-focused web browser created by former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, raised $35 million through a Basic Attention Token sale completed in less than 30 seconds.

Payment and financial services innovation takes center stage when Money20/20 Europe convenes in Copenhagen for three days commencing June 26, 2017. The gathering represents the largest assembly of its

Share&Charge, which pairs electric vehicle drivers with charging stations through a peer-to-peer model, unveiled its mobile app this week on both Google Play and Apple's App Store. The platform operat

Bitcoin developers and miners have divided over user-activated soft forks. For previous soft forks, miners vetted changes via BIP 9 signaling. SegWit triggered disagreement. Bitcoin Core contributors

Bitstamp is adding Litecoin and Ethereum to its platform. The EU-licensed exchange will launch LTC/BTC, LTC/EUR, and LTC/USD trading pairs in early June, followed by Ethereum. The move comes after the

Multi-asset digital wallet Jaxx has secured over 70 new partners and integrations in a...

Bitcoin reached $2,000 for the first time in its history, pushing the cryptocurrency to a new record amid rising trader interest and sustained investor buying pressure.

Bitcoin's anonymous design obscures who is using it and for what purpose. Virgilio Lizardo Jr., vice president of international affairs at Bitbank Group, has observed China's market closely. Bitbank G

Polybius Foundation launched this year as an Estonian-registered financial services firm. The company says Polybius Bank will be the \"first bank in the world to specialize in financial services for cr

The landscape for blockchain startup funding has undergone a dramatic transformation. Where traditional venture capital investments have slowed their pace, initial coin offerings—a novel fundraising m

Charlie Lee brought his Litecoin and Coinbase credentials to The Bitcoin Podcast recently, sitting with hosts Corey Petty and Marcello Milteer to talk through the mechanics of getting Segregated Witne

Ether has rallied 76 percent over the past month, bringing its gains since January to 1,000 percent. The surge follows announcements this week from Chinese entities exploring Ethereum applications. A

Litecoin activated Segregated Witness, a technical upgrade that Bitcoin miners have debated for years, on its network today. The cryptocurrency surged 788 percent so far this year, trading near $32 af

Blockstream's chief technical officer and Bitcoin Core maintainer Greg Maxwell recently took the stage at Coinbase's San Francisco office to address the obstacles standing in the way of rolling out st

Fermat, a collaborative, open-source technology project, has revealed the launch of the Internet of People (IoP) Consortium, an initiative aimed at boosting academic research and encourage university-

Aragon, a Spanish venture building tools on Ethereum, wants to make setting up and running organizations simpler. The platform handles the mechanics most companies need: shareholder registers, voting

Managing assets after death presents inherent difficulties, but these challenges intensify significantly when cryptocurrencies and other blockchain-based holdings are involved. During remarks at the Z

Gnosis, the first project founded within the Consensus Systems (ConsenSys) Ethereum development studio, has...

Manchester hosted the second edition of CoinFestUK on April 7 and 8 at Manchester Conference Center. Adam Rizvi organized the event through the Crypto Bates Group, drawing speakers from BTC.com, OpenL

Bitcoin's resilience against network divisions is far stronger than Ethereum's has proven to be, according to Andreas Antonopoulos, author of the technical guide Mastering Bitcoin. Speaking at this ye

Kraken added Dash to its trading platform. Traders could exchange the cryptocurrency for dollars, bitcoin, or euros, with margin trading possibly arriving later. At the time of listing, Dash ranked as

The Royal Mint and CME Group have started live testing of Royal Mint Gold (RMG), a blockchain-based product that lets traders buy and sell physical gold with lower costs and greater convenience. Insti

Suspicions surrounding Amit Bhardwaj, the operator of India's GBMiners mining collective, have intensified following evidence of fraudulent activity. The entrepreneur stands accused of orchestrating a

MiningPool uncovered the link between GBMiners, an emerging bitcoin mining pool, and GainBitcoin, a Ponzi scheme operating out of India. Darwin Labs, the software vendor for GBMiners, severed its rel

Bitmaintech Israel has launched ConnectBTC, a Bitcoin mining pool positioned as \"the new home for miners.\" The move marks the first public offering from Bitmain's Israeli research center, the company'

MUFG and six other international banks plan to launch next year a cross-border wiring services that leverages blockchain technology.

Japan's legislature has passed a law recognizing Bitcoin as a legal method of payment, bringing cryptocurrency exchanges under anti-money laundering rules and establishing capital requirements.

Growing concerns about product authenticity throughout global commerce have made many businesses and consumers eager for solutions that can verify where goods originate and how they move through distr

A crypto fund called Token-as-a-Service is building an analytics platform named Kepler to help investors navigate the digital asset markets. Kepler will cover the full investment process: market resea

Blockchain systems are emerging as a potential solution to longstanding fragmentation in how healthcare providers exchange and manage patient information. Rather than relying on centralized in

The criticism leveled at altcoins has been consistent for years: they're dead weight in the bitcoin ecosystem, promising vague improvements but delivering nothing of substance. The landscape is litter

Cryptocurrency markets are experiencing a pronounced shift beyond bitcoin, with alternative digital assets recording dramatic gains over the past several weeks. Ethereum's token has emerged as the sta

TumbleBit is a second-layer payment system for bitcoin that draws headlines for privacy improvements, but the technology reaches beyond that single feature. The protocol could expand bitcoin's reach t

An ambitious initiative to establish a virtual reality ecosystem powered by blockchain technology has unveiled a new testing phase while transitioning into what organizers call their Bronze Age peri

The SEC's rejection of a bitcoin ETF grabbed headlines, but the bigger story has been unfolding in the altcoin market. The Bitcoin Dominance Index, which tracks bitcoin's share of the overall cryptocu

South Korea's first public blockchain project has secured $3 million in pre-ICO funding. BlockchainOS built BOSCoin to provide an alternative to Ethereum, targeting what the company views as flaws in

Establishing genuine decentralization in emerging blockchain networks presents a significant challenge that few projects have successfully navigated. Bitcoin remains the solitary cryptocurrency to ach

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has denied a bid to launch the first-ever Bitcoin exchange-traded fund, citing fraud risk and lack of regulation in global Bitcoin markets.

Wirex, a London-based provider of bitcoin payment cards, closed a $3 million Series A round led by SBI Investment Co., Ltd., the venture arm of Japan's SBI Holdings. The startup will deploy the capita

Bitcoin transaction fees climb as blocks fill to capacity. Miners collect fees in addition to their 12.5 BTC block reward. Some recent blocks have yielded over 2 BTC in fees. That revenue helps miners

The Bitcoin scaling debate has kept watchers fixated on those who maintain the network's computational security—but these operators rarely prove as eager to alter foundational code as popular commenta

South Korea's Gyeonggi-do province tested blockchain technology in a voting system for local development projects. Nine thousand residents cast votes through both online and offline channels on initia

Kraken bought Cryptowatch, a charting and trading platform popular with digital currency traders. The San Francisco exchange has pursued acquisitions as a path to expand globally, broaden its service

Jonas Schnelli presented to Bitcoin Meetup Switzerland on the upcoming Bitcoin Core 0.14 release. The update skips flashy new features but packs optimization work that most software companies avoid. F

Bitcoin changes now come through soft forks, the method standardized in BIP 9. Soft forks maintain backward compatibility with older software. Nodes still running previous versions can continue operat

IOHK, a blockchain-focused fintech company, is building out an academic research network by signing partnerships with two major universities: the University of Edinburgh and Tokyo Institute of Technol

Vitalik Buterin sat down with the Epicenter podcast to discuss The DAO. The conversation centered on what was an investment fund with no barriers to entry. Investors contributed over $100 million wort

Ethereum's creation of a frictionless token deployment system has turbocharged the ICO market over the past few months, spawning 15 new coin offerings built on the network. Developers can launch token

JAAK, a London blockchain startup tackling media and entertainment rights, has landed a spot in Techstars Music, the investment group's first dedicated music accelerator. Eleven companies will go thro

Two years of competing proposals have pushed Bitcoin toward a critical juncture on block capacity. Groups within the community want to expand transaction throughput through hard-fork changes to the ne

BABB App Ltd., the London fintech company, plans to soft launch its blockchain banking platform in the second quarter. The firm has applied for a full banking license and wants to enter the Financial

Darknet Markets Extend Well Beyond Narcotics While the popular perception of darknet marketplaces centers on illegal drugs, the reality proves far more diverse. AlphaBay, the internet's most robust u

The bitcoin and blockchain landscape continues shifting as enterprises launch, pivot, and disappear at rapid pace. Reaching niche audiences within this space presents significant hurdles—and cryptocur

Initial coin offerings (ICOs) were all the rage in 2016. These token offerings raised...

Traity, an online reputation company, launched Kevin this week: a chatbot that sells micro-insurance for peer-to-peer transactions. The coverage protects buyers and sellers from theft, fraud, scams, a

For years, observers have identified the Lightning Network as among Bitcoin's most promising scaling mechanisms. The technology functions by enabling participants to exchange digitally-signed Bitcoin

Bitmain operates with two co-leaders. Jihan Wu has dominated the company's public profile over the years, but Micree Zhan—the engineering-focused half of the partnership—remains less visible outside C

Dash, the privacy-focused digital asset, has released its most substantial overhaul to date. Introducing Sentinel—version 12.1 of the Dash network—which establishes the groundwork for the eagerly awai

Tokyo's Digital Garage is putting money and engineering talent behind blockchain development. The company announced plans for a blockchain platform aimed at the Japanese market, built through a partne

ING, the Dutch banking and financial services giant, spent 2016 building and testing 27 blockchain proofs-of-concept across six distinct business areas. The experiments touched payments, trade finance

A strategic partnership between the software giant and a blockchain data verification startup aims to fundamentally reshape how enterprises validate information across digital systems. The initiative

Since Bitcoin hit the scene, numerous contenders have emerged promising enhanced anonymity protections. Yet among the parade of privacy-focused cryptocurrencies, only Monero has attracted genuine end-

BitFury Group signed a $30 million agreement with Hong Kong-based Credit China Fintech that combines equity investment with a new joint venture aimed at the Chinese market. BitFury will hold an 80 per

Purse connects Bitcoin holders with Amazon shoppers wanting a discount. The matchmaking works through gift card trading. When Bitcoin Uncensored's Chris DeRose sat down with Purse CEO Andrew Lee, they

Blockchain technology is being applied to the realm of digital romance. Matchpool is preparing to enter the online dating space with an innovative approach that combines elements of interest-based soc

Bitcoin's seven megabyte block size cap is creating anxiety among network participants. The issue isn't new. Longtime developer Mike Hearn abandoned the project entirely after the network rejected his

Executives at the world's investment banking centers face mounting pressure to justify expenses that seem to grow faster than profits. A new collaborative analysis from Accenture and McLagan offers a

Bitcoin worked its way into the online gambling world during 2016, though the shift went underreported at the time. While Bitcoin-specific gambling sites had existed for years, last year marked when m

Update: The post has been updated with a response from Amit Bhardwaj GBMiners has made headlines in various media outlets lately because of the bitcoin mining pool accounting for roughly 3 percent of

Status Holdings, a Singapore-based startup, has launched the alpha version of its Ethereum client for Android and iOS. The app functions as both a chat application and browser for decentralized applic

Ripple marks the beginning of 2017 with two significant developments: the launch of XRP on Bitstamp's exchange platform, and a partnership with Axis Bank to modernize India's cross-border payment infr

ARK Invest and Coinbase released research estimating that 10 million people worldwide hold a material amount of bitcoin. The calculation stems from Coinbase user activity, with the findings then extra

Late last year, a letter was posted on BitcoinDevelopmentGrant.com that announced a $1.2 million...

Lightning Labs released the first alpha version of the Lightning Network daemon on January 7, 2017, enabling Bitcoin developers to test payment channels that could process transactions off-chain.

Dash has experienced a massive surge with the price of the cryptocurrency rising by over 68% between December 27, 2016 and January 04, 2017.

Bitcoin crossed $1,000 this week for the first time since November 2013. The rally began in mid-October 2016 and has carried the digital currency up 60% since then, pushing its market value to $16.9 b

Dan McCrum, the Capital Markets Editor at Financial Times, published another column declaring bitcoin a pyramid scheme destined for zero. This marks the supposed 118th time commentators have called fo

Bitcoin's price surge into five figures grabbed mainstream attention over the past two weeks. The cryptocurrency broke through $800 on December 20th and crossed $1,000 on January 1st. That spike refle

Bitcoin crossed the $1,000 mark for the first time since early 2014, marking a dramatic milestone as the cryptocurrency begins 2017 with strong momentum and investor interest.