Cryptocurrency

Feedzai fights fraud using machine learning and big data analytics. The San Mateo startup, founded in 2011, partners with payment processors, banks and merchants to identify criminal activity across s

The FTC closed its enforcement action against Butterfly Labs and founder Sonny Vleisides last month with a settlement totaling $19,000—$4,000 against Vleisides as an individual and $15,000 against the

A year after Nick Sullivan, ChangeTip's CEO, gave an interview to the Bitcoin Knowledge Podcast outlining the company's philosophical stance on decentralization, those ideas are turning into code. The

Ross Ulbricht remains in federal prison serving a life sentence for operating The Silk Road, the darknet marketplace that prosecutors say he founded and controlled. His conviction came after a trial t

Back in early 2013, engineers at Bell Laboratories—the legendary research division of Alcatel-Lucent—submitted a patent application for an innovative approach to cryptocurrency transactions. The filin

E-Coin, the London-based bitcoin debit card and multi-signature wallet company, is stepping back from that singular identity. The firm, now operating under the Wirex Limited brand, plans to expand int

Safe Cash, a San Francisco payments startup, claims its blockchain can process 25,000 transactions per second. That dwarfs Bitcoin's throughput by 3,000 times and surpasses Visa's average capacity by

Wladimir van der Laan, who leads Bitcoin Core's development work, expressed cautious support for the Bitcoin Roundtable Consensus agreement in an email exchange with MiningPool. The argument over sca

Technology has transformed how people work and communicate, but security threats have followed. Your messages reach anyone on earth in seconds, yet a third party might intercept them. Criminals found

Bitcoin Classic proposes a hard fork that would increase the blockchain's block size limit to 2 MB. It triggers when 750 of the last 1000 blocks announce support via coinbase transactions. Gavin Andr

Federal regulators are setting a significant precedent with their charges against Homero Joshua Garza. The SEC's complaint marks the first time the agency has classified mining contracts as securities

Washington DC will host its biggest blockchain conference since Bitcoin in the Beltway wrapped two years ago. When the DC Blockchain Summit convenes on March 3rd, organizers have a different agenda th

Following Mike Hearn's exit from the Bitcoin project in January, mainstream outlets rushed to declare the cryptocurrency's demise inevitable. The consensus among those actually working within Bitcoin'

The trustee overseeing seized MtGox funds announced that thousands of creditor claims have been processed. Kraken, the San Francisco bitcoin exchange appointed to assist the court trustee, received 9,

Tokyo's premier bourse operator has joined forces with Big Blue's Japanese unit to pilot blockchain systems for settlement infrastructure and related functions. The initiative kicks off next m

Consensus mechanisms and decision-making frameworks have captured the attention of Bitcoin participants in recent months, and Mastering Bitcoin's Andreas Antonopoulos addressed these themes during an

Two new research papers confirm what bitcoin developers have feared: brain wallets leave users' money vulnerable to theft. Ryan Castellucci, working with other researchers, published findings in two

The Tallinn Stock Exchange will introduce a groundbreaking shareholder voting mechanism later this year, marking Nasdaq's second venture into blockchain applications. The exchange has partnered with E

The SEC sought a default judgment against GAW Miners and ZenMiners, two mining companies controlled by Homero Joshua Garza, for over $10 million after neither company responded to its complaint. The a

Cryptocurrency advocates often blame banks for what's broken in finance. Banks took customer savings and invested them in risky mortgage packages without disclosure. When those investments collapsed i