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Ryan X. Charles left his role as a cryptocurrency engineer at Reddit with a single goal: build a social network powered by blockchain and Bitcoin. The project he's launched, called Datt, represents on
BitFinex and Blade Payments have announced a partnership to issue debit cards backed by cryptocurrency holdings. The cards don't require customers to pre-fund them—a feature claimed by some existing c
The Ethereum Foundation has a $9 million shortfall. The decline in ether and bitcoin prices created the gap. Vitalik Buterin, the Foundation's leader, discussed the situation with Ian DeMartino in an
Bitcoin scalability conversations often invoke Visa's 150 million daily transactions as a benchmark. Reaching that volume would be ambitious enough for a blockchain network. Bitcoin, though, will need
Barclays closed deals with eight companies that came through its New York fintech accelerator, two of them blockchain-focused: Chainalysis and Wave. In July, Barclays hosted accelerator sessions in Lo
Volante Technologies wired its payments software to Ripple's network, opening a direct channel for banks to settle transactions across borders in real time. The software company built the Ripple inter
BanxShares will vanish from Coinmarketcap tomorrow. The cryptocurrency's reported valuation bears no resemblance to what people actually pay for it. The problem starts with how the market cap gets ca
Two developers working on Streamium are calling out media coverage of Bitcoin in Argentina as misleading. Manuel Aráoz and Esteban Ordano, based in Buenos Aires, spoke about their experience with Bitc
At TechCrunch Disrupt in September, a panel brought together three voices to examine Bitcoin's future. Xapo CEO Wences Casares, BTCC head Bobby Lee, and New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper sat do
Bitcoin Pacifica 2015 hosted a governance discussion that brought together some of the most influential voices in the Bitcoin development community. The panel included Gavin Andresen, Chief Scientist
The creator of Bitcoin vanished from public discourse in 2010, and that absence should remain permanent—not just from our forums and mailing lists, but from every argument we make about the technology
BitPay's security problems proved what the industry had long suspected: we're not mature and we're not professional. Even the biggest companies cut corners on security. Mt. Gox should have been a rec
State Street, the centuries-old financial giant, has launched an innovation lab dedicated to blockchain technology experiments. Hu Liang, senior managing director at the company's new emerging technol
Australia's competition watchdog has moved to open a probe into whether the nation's major lenders are coordinating the termination of accounts belonging to cryptocurrency firms and participants, as c
The internet upended film distribution. Video rental stores vanished. Now movies stream into homes through digital pipes. Yet studios still control theatrical release. The MPAA gates the system, decid
Hello Markets, which builds trading platforms for financial companies, has entered into a partnership with Coinify, a Copenhagen-based bitcoin payment processor. The deal follows a separate announceme
Most people hate ads. Advertisers have found their way into everything—television broadcasts, movies, news coverage—and that has shaped media in ways we don't stop to examine. MiningPool exists becau
Bitcoin followers treat Satoshi Nakamoto with near-religious reverence. When protocol disputes erupt, they turn to his old statements as evidence for their preferred outcome. Satoshi's vanishing leave
Ahmed Mohamed was 14 when he built a digital clock and brought it to his teacher. The school called the police. Officers placed him in handcuffs. A photo of the scene circulated online. The image spa
NeuCoin, a cryptocurrency focused on tipping, gaming, and social features, released its source code this month ahead of a scheduled late-September launch. The team ran a successful crowdfunding campai
