Cryptocurrency

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

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

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