Cryptocurrency

Digital ledger technology's computational demands rival the electricity consumption of entire nations—Peru, Israel, Portugal stand as comparable benchmarks. Bitminer Factory, headquartered in Italy, i

Blockstream has released new details about Liquid, its sidechain platform for exchanges and institutional traders. The company has spent years developing second-layer technologies to help Bitcoin scal

Every year, donors around the world contribute billions to charity, yet many have no way to track what happens with their donations after they give them. The lack of transparency has eroded confidence

Coinbase sees money pouring in from institutional investors, according to Adam White, the exchange's vice president and general manager. White told CNBC's Fast Money that institutional interest is bec

Embleema, a Delaware-based startup, has opened its HIPAA-compliant blockchain-based health records platform to public testing. The company spent a year developing PatientTruth, a decentralized applica

Line Corporation, the Japanese internet company operating Asia's most popular messaging app, launched its cryptocurrency exchange platform, Bitbox, today. The Singapore-based Line Tech Plus runs the e

Galaxy Digital, the cryptocurrency merchant bank spearheaded by prominent bull Mike Novogratz, has joined forces with Caspian—a comprehensive platform for crypto trading operations and risk oversight.

India won't ban cryptocurrencies outright, according to government sources. Officials are exploring whether to treat digital assets as commodities. An anonymous senior government official told Quartz

Professional tennis player Gaël Monfils has become an unlikely champion for cryptocurrency trading. The 31-year-old Frenchman, nicknamed \"Sliderman\" for his theatrical on-court antics, recently emerge

Europe's stance on blockchain technology sets it apart from global peers, reflecting a fundamentally different philosophy. Data from Ipsos demonstrates that European populations hold more bullish view

Supply chains lock up trillions in capital. The payment process crawls through multiple banks and networks. Businesses wait for their money. They wait for shipments to arrive. While they wait, they ne

The Blockchain World Conference will end its three-day Atlantic City run—July 11-13—with an unprecedented event: a 100-player poker tournament conducted entirely in cryptocurrency. The tournament mark

China's government is chasing blockchain technology while crushing cryptocurrencies. A new report from Abacus, 500 Startups, and the South China Morning Post documents the contradiction. Six major ci

Bitcoin's mining network processed over 40 exahashes per second in June 2018, crushing the roughly 13 EH/s record from 2017 by more than double. Four months brought growth exceeding 100 percent. For m

Status, an Ethereum-based mobile operating system, is partnering with OmiseGO, a platform focused on financial inclusion and interoperability across blockchains. The teams will integrate Status's plat

The Philippine central bank green-lit two new cryptocurrency exchanges to handle peso conversions. Virtual Currency Philippines, Inc. and ETranss received approval from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Bitcoin entered the world without any funding mechanism when Satoshi Nakamoto released it in early 2009. Modern cryptocurrency projects take a different path. Many fund themselves through initial coin

Craig Wright, the Australian entrepreneur who claims to be Satoshi Nakamoto, escalated that assertion this week after a confrontation with Bitcoin developer Peter Todd. In a series of tweets, Wright a

Wes Nolte trades with what he calls a \"diverse, risk-balanced, and bodacious\" approach. A 30-year-old from South Africa who works as chief technology officer in London, he ranks among eToro's most-cop

Cryptocurrency exchanges have hemorrhaged $750 million in the first six months of 2018, according to CipherTrace, a cybersecurity firm that works with banks and exchanges on blockchain security and co