Cryptocurrency

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

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

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